BDR Team Lead

About Abacum

Abacum is the leading Business Planning solution for finance teams to drive performance. By automating reporting, enabling collaboration, and simplifying planning and forecasting, we help finance teams shift from number crunching to driving strategic decisions.

Founded in 2020 by two former CFOs, we’ve grown into a global team of 100+ people across 30+ nationalities. Headquartered in New York, we have offices in London and Barcelona. We’re trusted by industry leaders such as Dish Networks, Strava, BetterUp, Kajabi, JG Wentworth, Abridge, Cortex, and hundreds more.

We have raised over $100m, closing in June 2025 our $60M Series B, led by Scale Venture Partners, with the strong participation of Cathay Innovation, Y Combinator, Atomico, Creandum, and angel operators from Adyen, Zapier, and Twitch.

Our mission is ambitious and we can’t do it alone - join Abacum as we build the future of Business Planning!

What You’ll Do

Build & Scale the Outbound Engine

• Own outbound pipeline generation across ICPs, segments, and regions

• Design and continuously refine outbound plays, sequences, and account strategies.

• Partner with Marketing and Sales to align outbound with ICP, messaging, and revenue priorities
  

Lead & Develop the BDR Team

• Coach, mentor, and performance-manage a team of 6 BDRs

• Build a culture of excellence, accountability, experimentation, and learning

• Hire, onboard, and ramp future BDRs as the team scales
  

Modernize with AI & Automation

• Leverage AI-powered tools for research, personalization, sequencing, scoring, and prioritization

• Introduce automation to eliminate low-value manual work and increase rep productivity

• Continuously test new tools, workflows, and signals to improve conversion and efficiency
  

Operational Rigor & Metrics

• Define clear goals, KPIs, and forecasting for outbound pipeline

• Track performance across activity, conversion, quality, and downstream impact

• Build dashboards and operating cadences that drive clarity and accountability with a extreme focus on these performance metrics:

  • Call volume & activity benchmarks

  • Meetings Scheduled/Completed

  • Qualified Leads Accepted (SQLs)

  • Pipeline: Sales Qualified Opportunities (#SQOs) and pipeline value ($)

  • Conversion Rates (Call-to-Meeting, Email-to-Meeting)
    

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with Sales, RevOps, and Marketing on targeting, handoffs, and feedback loops

• Provide frontline insights to improve messaging, positioning, and product narratives

• Act as the voice of outbound in GTM planning and execution
  

What Success Looks Like

• A repeatable, scalable outbound motion generating high-quality pipeline

• BDRs who are confident, productive, and growing in their craft

• Clear visibility into what’s working, what’s not, and why

• AI and automation meaningfully improving speed, quality, and rep effectiveness

• Outbound becoming a strategic growth engine—not just an activity center
  

What We’re Looking For

Skills & Experience

• 5–10 years leading outbound SDR/BDR teams in B2B SaaS

• Experience selling into the office of the CFO/finance, FP&A, or adjacent B2B personas

• Proven experience building or rebuilding outbound motions from the ground up

• Track record of hitting (and scaling) pipeline targets

• Demonstrated understanding of outbound fundamentals (segmentation, sequencing, personalization, qualification)

• Strong coaching and people leadership skills: Ability to motivate a team, provide constructive feedback, and drive performance in a high-pressure environment.

• Have operated in fast-moving, high-growth environments.

• Hands-on experience with AI-powered sales tools and automation: Salesforce, SalesLoft, Unify, Orum, Apollo, Clay.

• Curious, experimental, and data-driven

• Experience scaling teams across regions

Why Abacum

• Massive market opportunity with strong product-market fit

• Modern, AI-native platform that customers genuinely love

• Leadership team that values experimentation, ownership, and outcomes

• Real autonomy to design and run outbound “the right way”

• Competitive compensation, equity, and growth upside

Benefits

- Competitive compensation including equity package

- Competitive vacation policy

- Access to Meditopia

- Hybrid working model and flexible working hours

- Personal development including language courses

Our Values

Customer Obsession: We share the understanding that Abacum's sole purpose is to create value for customers and relentlessly deploy all creativity and energy to that end.

Audacious Ambition: We dream big and embrace discomfort. We assume risks, make on-time mistakes and learn how to methodically accomplish our goals.

Good People: We are self-reflective and praise diversity of thought. We don't justify the end with the means and know where to draw the line. We have fun every day.

Tough Love: We truly care for everyone in the team and embrace honest feedback and radical candor as ways to genuinely help each other.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.