Proper is a quickly growing startup that values your skills, voice, and happiness.
We’re a team of developers, designers, engineers, accountants, CPAs, project managers, and creatives from all over the world. But we’re also surfers, hikers, Sichuan-eaters, photographers, artists, world travelers, meme lovers, and life-havers.
Together, we provide the most technologically advanced property accounting services in the world - and we think that’s pretty epic. We’re proud to be creating something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.
Read more about what we do at Proper.ai
We’re proud to create something new that improves people’s lives while working together in a culture of collaboration, respect, communication, joy, and personal growth.
The Sales Development Representative (SDR) is responsible for outbound prospecting to generate qualified leads and schedule product demos for the sales team.
Success in this role requires exceptional communication skills, resilience, and a results-oriented mindset to drive a high volume of personalized outreach while maintaining quality.
Must be passionately curious, and driven beyond measure.
Candidates must be located in CST or EST to ensure better coverage of the time zones where our potential clients are located.
Key Responsibilities
- High-Volume Outreach:
- Prospect Research:
- Demo Scheduling:
- Pipeline Management:
- Initiate personalized outreach through multiple channels (email, calls, LinkedIn).
- Manage daily activity targets, including call and email volumes.
- Identify and segment prospects that match the ICP (Ideal Customer Profile).
- Tailor outreach efforts based on research and segmentation.
- Engage prospects in meaningful conversations to uncover pain points and align solutions, culminating in scheduled demos.
- Ensure handoffs to Account Executives are seamless and well-documented.
- Maintain an organized pipeline in the CRM, tracking engagement and follow-ups.
Required Hard Skills
- Outreach Tools:
- CRM Expertise:
- Communication:
- Metrics-Driven:
- Experience with tools like Orum, LinkedIn, Gong, etc.
- Proficient in HubSpot for tracking outreach and reporting metrics.
- Strong written and verbal communication, including crafting compelling outreach emails.
- Analyze outreach metrics to optimize strategies (e.g., email open rates, demo conversion rates).
Required Soft Skills
- Resilience:
- Relationship Building:
- Time Management:
- Adaptability:
- Passionate Curiosity:
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Ability to handle rejection and maintain a positive attitude.
- Skilled at establishing trust and building interest through brief interactions.
- Capable of juggling high volumes of activity without sacrificing quality.
- Quick to adjust approaches based on prospect feedback or data insights.
- Love knowing how something impacts a business, and demonstrates curiosity around the depth of that impact.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with others in early stages. The nature of an early stage start-up is very much survival mode, but that cannot negatively impact how you interact with others.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience in Fintech/Financial space
- Industry Knowledge: Exposure to SaaS or technology sales cycles.
- Additional Outreach Techniques: Creative approaches to stand out in crowded markets, such as personalized video messages.
Salary + Benefits:
- Salary: 56,000USD/year + comission
- Benefits overview:
· Hybrid Work
· Home Office Furnishing Allowance (One-Time Payment via reimbursement): $200 USD
· Necessary equipment is provided by Proper (computer, additional screen, keyboard, mouse, if applicable).
· Monthly Home Office Utilities Allowance: $30 USD
· Health Insurance: Proper contributes 90% to employee coverage and 75% for dependents coverage with United Healthcare Select Plus PPO Gold - DIAF as a base plan. See full benefit summaries and rates here: https://app.rippling.com/benefits/preview/7vejyx6eknrjabr4
· Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) two months after your start date:
o For vacation, and personal days.
o We encourage a minimum of 12 days of PTO each year.
· Culture Offerings: Free access to the Calm app for you and 5 dependents, the world's #1 app for mental fitness, fun events including team building.
· Fun, fully remote, highly effective working culture
· 401K
Proper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment to work by offering the same opportunities to all applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, disability, national origins, marital status, or other characteristics. We base our talent search exclusively on competencies, abilities and potential.
Top Skills
What We Do
As of today, Proper has secured $20M in investments from Silicon Valley’s top VC companies and employs over 300 passionate problem solvers in six countries.
We’re developers, designers, engineers, accountants, CPAs, project managers, and creatives. But we’re also surfers, hikers, Sichuan-eaters, photographers, yogis, artists, world travelers, meme lovers, and life-havers. We believe that being able to show up as your full self while doing work that challenges you is the secret to happiness, so we work hard to instill human-centric values into everything we do.
Our penchant for streamlining processes combined with our property industry expertise is how we’re able to provide more cost-effective, efficient, scalable financial services that improve our customer’s profit margins.
So if you’re looking for the peace of mind that your books are being Properly, frugally, and expertly handled by a team of property accounting specialists? You’ve come to the right place.
And if you’re looking to join a team of international problem solvers who are collaborating in a culture that inspires personal growth, fosters creativity, and encourages playfulness? You’ve come to the right place, too.
Our Key Values:
• Feedback as the Way Forward: Feedback is how we grow, find empathy, and learn how to support each other.
• Opportunity as an Outlook: We see obstacles as opportunities to improve.
• Communication is the Expectation: We work in unison, set clear expectations, and share frequent updates.
• Fun While Getting it Done: Laughter and fun make working together even better.
• Respect Over Rank: As humble experts, we educate, support, and never treat anyone as less-than.
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