Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Runway is a pioneering company focused on merging art and science through AI to simulate the world. They are seeking a Sr. Manager of Sales Development to lead and grow their founding BDR team while building modern sales development processes that integrate AI-powered workflows and automation.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow Runway’s founding BDR team, creating a high-performance culture centered around curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Build the systems, processes, and infrastructure that power a modern AI-first sales development organization
- Define how AI tooling, automation, and human creativity work together across outbound prospecting, research, personalization, and pipeline generation
- Turn product usage signals, API activity, and inbound demand into scalable enterprise opportunity generation workflows
- Develop highly targeted, vertical-specific outbound motions aligned to Runway’s evolving use cases and customer needs
- Continuously test and refine messaging, sequencing, workflows, and enablement programs to improve team effectiveness
- Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Creative, and RevOps to shape ICP strategy, lead routing, and overall GTM execution
- Work alongside sales leadership to help define and scale Runway’s enterprise sales motion
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in sales, growth, or GTM leadership roles
- Experience managing and developing high-performing SDR/ BDR teams
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with experience building outbound processes and operational infrastructure from the ground up
- Deep interest in AI-native workflows and a strong point of view on how AI will reshape modern prospecting and sales development
- Experience operating in product-led, usage-based, or highly technical GTM environments
- Highly analytical and data-driven, with the ability to use insights to drive strategy and execution
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and excited to experiment and iterate quickly
- Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator with a builder mentality
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