Sales Development Representative / SDR – Tech Sales – London

Vention is hiring a Sales Development Representative to help grow our UK business from our London office.

We work with VC\-backed startups, scaleups, unicorns, and enterprise clients to build dedicated software engineering teams and deliver custom software solutions. This is a high\-impact outbound sales role where you’ll identify and engage founders, CTOs, engineering leaders, product leaders, and other senior decision\-makers across the UK market.

You’ll be responsible for creating new conversations, booking qualified meetings, and building pipeline for our business development team.

Why this role is worth considering

• Clear progression path into Business Development / closing roles


• Work with senior tech and business decision\-makers across startups, scaleups, unicorns, and enterprise companies


• Exposure to complex B2B sales, custom software development, dedicated engineering teams, and digital product delivery


• Join a growing UK office where your work directly impacts market expansion


• Strong mentorship, coaching, and clear performance expectations


• Benefits include private health insurance, pension contribution, wellness allowance, annual leave, winter break, and WeWork access

• Prospect and engage potential clients through cold calling, email, LinkedIn, events, and other outbound channels


• Research target accounts and identify relevant decision\-makers, including founders, CTOs, Heads of Engineering, product leaders, and business stakeholders


• Build personalised outbound campaigns based on company growth, hiring needs, technology challenges, and potential demand for software development support


• Qualify leads by understanding their business needs, technical challenges, growth plans, and fit for Vention’s services


• Book qualified meetings and create new opportunities for the business development team


• Attend industry events, tech meetups, and networking opportunities to generate new relationships


• Track all activity, lead information, and next steps accurately in the CRM


• Consistently work towards weekly and monthly KPIs, including outbound activity, meetings booked, qualified opportunities, and pipeline generated

• 1\+ year of experience in an SDR, BDR, business development, recruitment, staffing, IT services, SaaS, or B2B sales role


• Proven experience with outbound prospecting, including cold calls, email, and LinkedIn outreach


• Confidence engaging senior decision\-makers and starting commercial conversations


• Strong written communication skills and ability to personalise outreach


• Interest in technology, software development, digital products, or complex B2B services


• Comfortable working to KPIs and managing your own pipeline of prospects


• Resilient, curious, proactive, and motivated by progression in sales

• Experience in software development services, IT consulting, staffing, recruitment, staff augmentation, or complex SaaS


• Understanding of offshore / nearshore delivery models or dedicated engineering teams


• Experience selling or prospecting into CTOs, founders, engineering leaders, product leaders, or technology teams


• Experience with tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo, Salesloft, Outreach, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator

• Wellness allowance


• Private health insurance


• Employer pension contribution


• Annual leave \+ paid winter break


• WeWork membership with global access


• Career coaching, mentorship, and growth path into more senior sales roles

• Company events


• Company pension


• Gym membership


• Private medical insurance

• How many years of experience do you have in an SDR, BDR, outbound sales, business development, recruitment, staffing, IT services, SaaS, or B2B sales role?


• Are you comfortable making cold calls to senior decision\-makers as part of your daily role?


• Which buyer personas have you prospected, sold to, or engaged with before?


• Which industries or solutions have you sold or prospected for before?


• What sales KPIs were you responsible for in your most recent SDR / sales role?

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