Sales Development Manager
At a glance
Manager-level Sales Development role at LangChain. San Francisco, CA · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Coach SDRs with call reviews and structured feedback to build their skills
- Own team activity, conversion, pipeline creation and attainment, using funnel results to improve performance
- Hire and grow the SDR group, while creating repeatable inbound and outbound qualification guides
- Align with marketing, sales leaders and RevOps on inbound leads, target accounts, territories and pipeline goals
- Set up systems and workflows that make SDR work more productive and effective
What you bring
- At least five years of sales development experience
- At least one year overseeing SDRs or guiding a sales development group
- You’re comfortable with technical products and developer audiences
- You’ve worked with modern GTM tools such as AI agents, LinkedIn Sales Navigator or power dialers
Who this fits
This manager role suits someone who enjoys coaching early-career sellers and using metrics to guide performance. You’ll lead and grow the SDR team while shaping processes that are still developing. The role is onsite in New York City or San Francisco.
From the employer
About Us
At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.
With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we’re at a stage where we’re continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.
Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.
About the role:
We’re hiring a Sales Development Manager (New York City or San Francisco) to lead and scale our founding SDR team at LangChain.
Our SDRs play a critical role in helping companies adopt LangChain and LangSmith. They engage technical buyers, convert high inbound interest into qualified opportunities, and work closely with our sales and marketing teams to build pipeline.
This role will own the performance, coaching, and development of the SDR team, while helping design the systems, processes, and workflows that power their GTM motion. You’ll partner closely with sales, marketing, and and RevOps to continuously improve how we identify and engage the right accounts.
What You'll Do:
Lead and coach a team of SDRs responsible for generating qualified pipeline
Own SDR performance including activity metrics, conversion rates, pipeline creation, and attainment
Recruit top SDR talent and grow the team as LangChain continues to scale
Develop SDR talent through coaching, call reviews, and structured feedback
Build repeatable outbound and inbound qualification playbooks
Partner with marketing to convert inbound demand into qualified opportunities
Work with sales leadership and RevOps to align on target accounts, territories, and pipeline goals
Implement systems and workflows that improve SDR productivity and effectiveness
Use data to continuously improve performance, analyzing conversion rates across the funnel
How to be successful in this role:
Have 5+ years of experience in sales development
Have 1–3+ years managing SDRs or leading a sales development team
Are comfortable working with technical products and developer audiences
Have experience with modern GTM tooling (AI Agents, LinkedIn Sales Nav, Power Dialers, etc.)
Are highly data-driven and comfortable managing performance through metrics
Are passionate about coaching and developing early-career sales talent
Thrive in fast-moving environments where processes are still evolving
Have strong communication and organizational skills
Compensation Philosophy:
We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.
We are hiring for this role across a range of scope, and the compensation band reflects that. Your offer depends on what we learn about your impact, craft, leadership, and communication during the interview process. We will tell you early where you’re tracking and talk comp with you before offer stage. Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
Benefits
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
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