Sales Development Representative
San Francisco, Hybrid (San Francisco)Posted 1mo ago
About the role
Outbound SDR role at PlanetScale focused on building an AI-native outbound motion, researching prospect infrastructure needs, and turning interest into qualified pipeline among engineers and technical leaders.
Responsibilities
- Find promising companies that should be using PlanetScale, but aren’t yet.
- Research their architecture, growth, and likely infrastructure problems.
- Build creative outbound campaigns using tools like Claude and Clay.
- Talk to engineers and technical leaders without immediately saying, “Let me bring in someone technical.”
- Turn interest into real pipeline: a mapped buyer, an actual problem, and a reason to solve it now.
- Help determine what works, what doesn’t, and what we should scale.
Qualifications
- 1+ year of quota-carrying SDR or BDR experience.
- Consistently hit your number.
- Early in your career, ambitious, and learning quickly.
- Already use AI to improve how you work.
- Able to show a project built with Claude, Clay, or another AI tool and explain impact.
- Think in terms of automation for repetitive work.
- Curious about databases, infrastructure, and how modern AI companies are built.
- Actively seek feedback.
Skills
Required:Quota-carrying SDR/BDR experienceAI toolingEngagement with engineers
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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