Sales Development Specialist

Who we are:

Skolarli is a Global talent intelligence platform for hiring, built in Bangalore, India. Talent Acqusition heads, Recruitment agencies and enterprise HR teams use us to run AI-proctored assessments and video interviews for their hiring needs.

Backed by AWS, NASSCOM, and Razorpay Rize. Paying customers live. Growing fast.

The role:

You'll be our first sales hire. Not one of twenty — the first one. You'll work directly with the founder, run your own outreach, and close your own deals. The playbook you build here becomes the foundation for every sales hire after you.

What you'll do:

Build and work a pipeline of recruitment agencies and enterprise HR leaders across India. Run outbound across LinkedIn, email, and phone. Book and run discovery calls. Take deals from first conversation to signed contract. Feed what you learn back into messaging and positioning.

Your first 30 days:

Learn the product inside out, as a candidate, as an interviewer, as an HR admin. Shadow every demo. Build your first prospect list of 50 agencies and HR leaders. Send your first 20 outreach messages. No pressure to close ,just the pressure to understand.

Your first 60 days:

10–15 qualified demos done. At least 2–3 pilots in motion. A clear point of view on what messaging works and what objections come up. Share it, Shape it, Roadmap it!

Your first 90 days:

First closed deals. First commission. A pipeline you own and can speak to in detail. By now you're not learning the role, you're defining it.

What we're looking for

1–2 years in sales, business development, or lead generation. Comfortable with outbound. Strong written communication, your first impression is almost always an email or a LinkedIn message. Driven by outcomes. Strong communicator, in a cold call, a demo, or a follow-up email. Comfortable starting conversations from scratch and keeping them moving.

Compensation

Month fixed pay + 10% commission on revenue from deals you source. No cap.

To apply:

Important: Skip the AI slop templated cover letter, those will not be considered and will go into our Ignored/Deleted Folder.

Send a short original, conversational note about the last time you convinced someone sceptical to say "yes" along with your work experience to [email protected] with the subject line "Sales Development Specialist"