Sales Development Representative

Avante is the enterprise AI platform for benefits teams. Benefits is one of the most complex, high-stakes functions in any company, and Avante’s purpose-built agents take on end-to-end benefits work, from checking vendor contracts against claims to preparing leadership reports to helping employees use and understand their benefits. Samsung Semiconductor, Real Chemistry, Zscaler and News Corp use Avante today to keep costs in check, support employees across the globe, and get more from their benefits investment.

We're looking for an experienced Sales Development Representative to own how Avante creates pipeline. You'll be the first conversation a prospect has with us, and you'll set the tone for everything that follows. The benefits leaders we sell to (CHROs, VPs of Total Rewards, benefits directors at Fortune 1000 companies) are busy, skeptical of AI hype, and flooded with point-solution pitches.

Your job is to cut through that with a sharp point of view about a problem they feel every day.

This role runs all three motions. You'll run cold outbound into enterprise HR and benefits leaders, qualify and convert inbound demand generated by marketing, and work leads sourced through our channel partners. You'll need to understand the difference between these motions and adjust your approach accordingly. A partner-sourced warm intro is not the same conversation as a cold sequence into a CHRO who’s never heard of us.

Because you’ll report directly to the CRO, you’ll have unusual visibility into how the whole go-to-market machine works, and unusual influence over how the SDR function gets built. The playbooks, sequences, and qualification frameworks aren’t fully written yet. You’ll help write them. The right person treats that as the best part of the job, not the scary part.

This is a fit for someone 2–3 years into a sales development career and may have also done full life cycle sales who has carried a pipeline quota, knows how to research an account and write outreach that gets replies, and is ready to operate at a pace where weeks feel like months.

Build an enterprise pipeline across three motions. Run cold outbound into Fortune 1000 HR and benefits leaders, qualify inbound demand from marketing, and convert warm introductions from our channel partners. Own your number and the activity that gets you there.

Research accounts like an analyst, not a list-puller. Before you reach out, understand the company’s benefits ecosystem, recent moves, and likely pain. Avante sells into a complex domain. Generic outreach gets ignored. Specific, informed outreach gets meetings.

Write outreach that earns a reply. Craft sequences and one-off messages that sound like a person who understands benefits, not a templated blast. You’ll test angles, subject lines, and channels, and double down on what works.

Qualify hard and hand off clean. Run discovery that separates real opportunities from noise, then deliver AEs a qualified meeting with full context so the next conversation starts strong. Close the loop every time.

Use AI as a core part of how you work. We expect our SDRs to use AI tools daily to research accounts, draft and personalize outreach, summarize calls, and build their own workflows. We’re an AI company. The person in this seat should be visibly better at their job because of how they use AI, not just curious about it.

Partner with channel and marketing. Coordinate with our channel partners on co-selling motions and with marketing on inbound follow-up and campaign feedback. Bring the signal from your conversations back to both teams so we get sharper over time.

Learn the product and the domain deeply. Be able to explain what Carly and Ava do together as one platform, why benefits…