Sales Development Representative — Founder Success & Partnerships

Taidou is a private management consulting firm built around a simple idea: real, measurable results for our clients, not reports that gather dust. We help companies build, connect, benchmark, and capitalize through an integrated network of advisors, technology, service providers, and business-development opportunities.

Through Taidou Exchange, we extend that mission to founders and small businesses: a founder-services marketplace and private-market network that gives them one integrated advisory network to build company infrastructure, connect with vetted providers, complete readiness work, and access private-market opportunities and curated investor discovery with no revenue or size minimums.

Our Startups Practice sits at the very front of that mission — it's how founders first meet Taidou. As the SDR/BDR for Founder Success & Partnerships (also referred to internally as our Client Relationship Manager), you'll be the first voice founders hear from us. You will own the top of the funnel by turning a growing backlog of sourced leads into qualified, engaged conversations, and setting our advisory team up for success from the very first call.

You don't need a decade of consulting behind you. You need curiosity, drive, and a genuine love for people and their ideas.

• Source, identify, and qualify promising startups across all stages — pre-revenue, bootstrapped, and venture-backed — as candidates for the Exchange, working across multiple lead sources: warm portfolio-company introductions from VC partners, contacts sourced at pitch nights and networking events, and inbound one-offs from lead forms.
• Build authentic, long-term relationships with founders, operators, and startup ecosystem partners.
• Run proactive outbound outreach across Linked In, Whats App, email, and text, and qualify interest through 30-minute introductory calls to understand a founder's business, pain points, and fit for Taidou Exchange — clearly and compellingly introducing what Taidou does and how Taidou Exchange helps founders.
• Guide founders through the full early pipeline and Exchange onboarding journey — discovery calls, introductory conversations, and follow-up from first conversation to platform activation.
• Listen for what each founder actually needs and connect it to Taidou's advisory, infrastructure, benchmarking, and investor-discovery capabilities.
• Prioritize and sequence outreach across your different lead pools based on warmth and urgency, and execute clean, well-qualified handoffs and notes to the partner and advisory team as founders move into the next stage.
• Represent Taidou at events, in founder communities, and across your network to build a pipeline that compounds over time.
• Manage and curate your backlog of prospective founder clients in Taidou CRM, keeping records accurate and up to date, and report on activity, conversion, and dealflow quality.

• A natural ability to connect with people and build trust quickly. You will need to be a strong communicator, in writing and in conversation, who can build rapport and credibility with founders in a short call.
• Genuine curiosity about startups — how they're built, why they win, and where they get stuck — and genuine interest in the broader startup/SMB ecosystem.
• Comfortable and confident running outbound outreach across multiple channels (Linked In, email, text, Whats App).
• Self-motivated and comfortable working toward goals in a commission-first, high-autonomy structure.
• Coachable, resourceful, and eager to learn.
• Highly organized and comfortable owning and maintaining a CRM pipeline without things falling through the cracks.
• Reliable access to the tools and connectivity needed to work remotely.