Sales Development Representative

We’re looking for a Sales Development Representative to help us expand customer acquisition channels and grow course sales through strategic partnerships across the boating, hunting, and outdoor education markets. This is a contract to hire role.

This is not a passive lead-management role.

We’re after a hunter
. Not the kind that wears camo, though that is DEFINITELY a bonus (we sell hunter education).

Are you willing to make 100 calls in a day?

Send twice as many emails?

Research the right contact, find a way in, follow up relentlessly, and keep going when the first answer is “not interested”?

If that sounds exhausting, this probably isn’t the role for you.

If it sounds like a challenge, keep reading.

You’ll work directly with our leadership team to identify, contact, and develop new partnership opportunities across the outdoor industry.

Your primary focus will be helping us:

• Expand new customer acquisition channels
• Generate course sales through strategic partners
• Identify organizations and businesses with audiences that align with our education platforms
• Research and identify the right decision-makers
• Build outbound campaigns across phone, email, Linked In, and other channels
• Create new conversations and qualify partnership opportunities
• Maintain disciplined follow-up until an opportunity is qualified or clearly closed
• Schedule qualified meetings for company leadership
• Track outreach, conversations, opportunities, and next steps in our CRM
• Help refine messaging based on what resonates in the market

We’ll provide the products, positioning, strategy, and support.

Your job is to create conversations and open doors.

• Highly competitive and motivated by measurable results
• Comfortable with significant outbound activity
• Unafraid of cold calling
• Persistent without being obnoxious
• Organized enough to manage a large volume of prospects and follow-ups
• Strong in written and verbal communication
• Able to quickly understand a prospect’s business and identify a relevant opportunity
• Comfortable speaking with everyone from small-business owners to executives at national organizations
• Self-directed and capable of producing without constant supervision
• Curious, resourceful, and willing to find creative ways to reach the right person

Experience in sales development, partnerships, business development, SaaS, education technology, or the outdoor industry is helpful,
but we care more about demonstrated drive and execution than a perfect resume.

A genuine interest in hunting, fishing, boating, or the outdoors is a significant plus.

This is not a job where leads simply appear in your inbox.

You will be expected to prospect.

You will be expected to pick up the phone.

You will be expected to follow up more than once.

And you will be expected to consistently create new opportunities.

We’re building something quickly and want someone who gets excited about helping create the sales engine rather than inheriting one that is already finished.

Compensation will be competitive and based on experience, with the opportunity for performance-based upside.

We build modern online education platforms serving the boating, hunting, and broader outdoor recreation industries.

Our focus is straightforward: build a better educational experience, create strong partnerships, and make high-quality outdoor education more accessible.

We’re a growing, founder-led company, and this role will have direct visibility into leadership and meaningful influence on how our partnership and customer acquisition strategy develops.

We're less interested in textbook sales strategies and more interested in how you'd personally approach this problem.

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