Founding SDR – Executive Search

Location: Bangalore / Remote

Experience: 4–8 years preferred, but we are open to strong candidates outside this range

Function: Business Development / Outbound / Sales development

Reporting to: Founding Partner

About HireVeda

HireVeda is an executive search firm focused on hiring CXO, VP and Director-level leaders for VC-backed startups, PE-backed companies, pre-IPO businesses and GCCs.

Our business today is driven largely by inbound LinkedIn opportunities, referrals and existing clients. We are now building a more systematic and personalised outbound engine and are looking for our first dedicated outbound business development hire.

This is a high-ownership role where you will work closely with the founding team to identify companies that are likely to have senior hiring requirements, start relevant conversations and create qualified opportunities.

The Role

As our Founding SDR, you will own the top of the outbound funnel — from identifying the right companies and decision-makers to starting conversations and qualifying potential hiring opportunities.

Once a conversation develops into a genuine hiring discussion, the founding partner will take over the opportunity.

You will therefore play a critical role in building a repeatable outbound engine for HireVeda.

What You Will Do

• Identify and prioritise companies that are likely to hire senior leadership talent.
• Build targeted account lists across startups, PE/VC-backed companies, pre-IPO businesses and GCCs.
• Track business and hiring signals such as:
• Recent funding rounds
• Expansion into new markets
• New business lines
• Leadership changes
• Rapid team growth
• New office/GCC launches
• Senior leadership additions
• M&A or strategic investments
• Identify relevant decision-makers including Founders, CEOs, CHROs, Heads of Talent and senior business leaders.
• Run personalised outbound campaigns across LinkedIn, email and calls.
• Develop referral-led routes through investors, portfolio companies and existing relationships.
• Personalise outreach at scale without making it feel automated or generic.
• Qualify conversations and hand over genuine hiring opportunities to the founding partner.
• Maintain accurate CRM/data hygiene and track the complete outbound funnel.
• Test different segments, triggers, messaging and channels and continuously improve conversion.
• Build a repeatable outbound playbook that can eventually be scaled into a larger BD function.

What Success Looks Like

You will be measured less by the number of messages sent and more by the quality of conversations and opportunities created.

Key metrics will include:

• Qualified founder / CHRO / Talent Head conversations
• Meetings booked and held
• Qualified hiring opportunities created
• Conversion from outbound conversations to active mandates
• Quality and relevance of target accounts
• Repeatability of the outbound process

An initial benchmark would be working towards approximately 1–2 relevant decision-maker conversations per day, with the goal of building a consistent pipeline of qualified opportunities.

Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who is comfortable with research-heavy, consultative B2B business development, rather than high-volume transactional sales.

You could be a strong fit if you have:

• Experience in executive search, recruitment, B2B sales, business development, or a similar consultative environment.
• Strong prospect research and account-mapping skills.
• Experience reaching senior stakeholders such as founders, CXOs, CHROs or business heads.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• The ability to personalise outreach rather than relying purely on templates.
• A strong understanding of LinkedIn and outbound prospecting.
• Comfort working with CRM systems and maintaining clean prospect data.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to build processes from scratch.
• Strong ownership of numbers, experimentation and follow-through.

A Plus

• Experience selling executive search, recruitment or professional services.
• Existing network among founders, CHROs, talent leaders or investors.
• Experience working with VC/PE-backed startups or high-growth companies.
• Experience building an outbound motion from zero to one.
• Ability to identify business/hiring triggers rather than simply working from static databases.

What This Role Is Not

This is not a traditional high-volume SDR/telesales role.

The objective is not to send hundreds of generic messages every day. The expectation is to identify the right companies, understand why they may need senior talent now, reach the right decision-maker and create a relevant business conversation.

Why Join HireVeda?

• Build the outbound engine from scratch.
• Work directly with the founding team.
• Sell a high-value, consultative executive-search service.
• Engage directly with founders, CEOs, CHROs and senior business leaders.
• Get exposure to senior hiring across startups, PE/VC-backed companies and GCCs.
• Significant ownership and scope to build the function as HireVeda scales.

Working Style

We value:

Research over volume. Personalisation over templates. Conversations over activity for activity's sake. Ownership over hand-holding.

• All outreach should be conducted through real, identifiable people and within applicable platform rules. We do not use fake identities, proxy profiles or deceptive automation.