# Manager, Sales Development

**Company:** [Vanta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vanta)
**Location:** New York, NY, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Sales Development
**Salary:** $172k – $202k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** sales management, B2B SaaS, sales development, Prospecting, Pipeline Generation, Sales Forecasting, Recruiting, Onboarding, training, mentoring, GRC, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Sales Development Representatives focused on VMB, SMB, and Enterprise segments. Evolve prospecting strategies, drive pipeline, recruit and train new SDRs, and partner with sales leadership in a fast-growing security automation company.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do
- Manage and mentor a growing team of high performing Sales Development Representatives, providing them the tools, coaching, and support needed to deliver results for the business.
- Evolve Vanta’s prospecting playbook by developing and implementing new prospecting initiatives and strategies that will increase deal sizes, resolve complex use cases, and drive more revenue to the company.
- Grow the Sales Development team at Vanta, through active involvement in recruitment, on-boarding and training of new Sales Development Representatives.
- Create and establish strategic prospecting training, conduct weekly forecasting meetings, and mentor your direct reports on strategies that can help create pipeline.
- Help to continually foster an inclusive Sales organization representing Vanta’s culture and values.
- Ensure development plans are in place, adapted to each individual, and made useful in a way that ensures the ongoing development of talent within the organization.
- Collaborate cross functionally to drive better outcomes for Vanta’s prospects’ that have headquarters within NAMER.
- Partner with sales leadership on creating an agile organization that believes in using decision frameworks to inform strategic direction but also isn’t afraid to launch, iterate, and redo in order to get the job done.

## How to be successful in this role
- Be located in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY and have the ability to commute to the office in a hybrid setting.
- Have 3-5 years of sales experience, with at least 2+ years of management/leadership experience.
- Offer experience in B2B SaaS sales and sales management.
- Have experience prospecting into various market segments and personas.
- Have stellar problem-solving abilities, thrive working in a fast-paced, high-volume environment and enjoy the challenge of making a large impact early on in a start-up environment.
- Possess the technical competency to understand Vanta’s software, the intellectual curiosity to want to learn about the world of governance, risk and compliance, and to build great relationships with highly technical prospects who are willing to rethink the paradigm in how security is achieved, and to enhance and evolve their own security programs.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.
- Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

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