The Sales Development Representative identifies and engages prospects through cold calls, email, LinkedIn, and video outreach. They communicate Zinc’s value proposition, generate and qualify leads, manage pipeline activity, analyze outreach performance, collaborate with sales and marketing, and continuously improve through coaching. The role is suitable for candidates beginning their sales career, with potential and attitude valued over previous experience.
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a 🚀 fast-growing team driving Zinc’s mission to revolutionise background checking. With three years of consistent 2x year-on-year growth 📈—and plans to do it again—you’ll play a key role in our continued success.
As an SDR, you’ll master modern sales techniques, engage with prospects across multiple channels 📞📧, and contribute to the growth of a cutting-edge tech company 🖥️. Whether you’re starting your career or looking to take your sales skills to the next level, this role will set you up for success 💪✨.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Prospect Engagement: Identify and connect with potential customers through cold calls, emails, LinkedIn outreach, and video messaging. 📞 🖥️
- Storytelling & Communication: Deliver compelling messages that capture attention and communicate Zinc’s value proposition effectively.
- Sales Strategy: Use data to analyse your outreach, refine your approach, and improve performance.
- Pipeline Management: Generate, nurture, and qualify leads for the Account Executive team. 🛠️ 💡
- Collaboration: Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to ensure alignment and maximise opportunities.
- Continuous Improvement: Embrace coaching and feedback to refine your techniques and hit individual and team targets.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
- Proactive & Motivated: You’re solution-oriented, thrive on challenges, and take ownership of your success. 🌟
- Ambitious & Coachable: You’re eager to learn, grow, and push through tough days with resilience and determination. 🚀
- Exceptional Communicator: You excel at storytelling and can quickly capture attention through cold calls, emails, and video outreach.
- Organized & Analytical: You enjoy using data to drive decisions and keep your efforts focused.
- Team Player: You value collaboration and contribute positively to a supportive team culture.
Experience in sales or tech is a bonus, but we’re more interested in your potential and attitude than your resume. We hire across multiple SDR levels and determine final levelling through a structured interview and scoring process.
What we offer 🍉
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About
Who are Zinc? ⚡️We believe in better background checking: making them easy, instant and delightful - for candidates and HR teams across the world 🌎. Founded in 2017, we've grown year-on-year, reaching the Times Top 100 fastest growing businesses, the Deloitte EMEA fast 500 and winning the 2026 HSBC x WIRED Award in the Trailblazers Category.But we're not all work, our founders Luke and Charlotte are hot on being a culture first business. By this, we don't just mean an active calendar of company and team events (although these are great! 🍻 🥂🍕🎯) - our culture is defined by respect, fostering support for new ideas, promoting flexible work environments and operating with autonomy and low ego. 🔥💥❤️It's not just us who think they've done a stellar job - we've won awards for being a Top Place To Work in 2025 and 2026 from Tembo and SeedLegals 💚What are our values? 🧩🧩🧩Our values are: Pragmatism, Integrity, Empathy, Collaboration, Empowerment and Speed. We call them the PIECES that make Zinc (see what we did there 😂).How do we work? 🧑🏽💻👩🏼💻👨🏿💻We operate on a hybrid working model, with everyone coming to our Shoreditch Offices on Mondays and Thursdays, and working from home on the others. We believe this is a great balance between having space for deep work and in-person collaboration ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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