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title: 'Sales Development Representative at Achilles'
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# Sales Development Representative at Achilles

- **Company:** Achilles
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/achilleshr/843e18fd-b19c-436b-a116-4f65a7fecc6e

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE:

Achilles is an applied-AI company building agents for HR teams that hire the world’s deskless workforce.

Our flagship agent, Sam, owns the entire hiring pipeline—creating resumes, running multi-lingual voice & text interviews, and scheduling final interviews with hiring managers, all without human intervention. By giving every candidate an instant, fair shot and surfacing the right talent fast, we strengthen America’s frontline industries—from manufacturing plants to quick-service restaurants.

We're building our sales org to evolve and improve constantly: every call, email, and demo is a fresh data point; we test, adjust, and level-up until we’re unbeatable.

Over the past year, that loop has forged a rock-solid, founder-driven engine—laser-focused ICP, messaging that lands, and a playbook that converts.

Now we’re throwing gasoline on the fire and looking for driven, bold hunters who want to shape company strategy, smash quota, and grow into top 1% sellers while evangelizing agent-powered hiring to the operators who keep the real world running.

## OUR CULTURE:

Everything we do—product, sales, support—runs on six core tenets:

1. Customer First – Obsess over solving real problems.
2. High Velocity, High Quality – Move fast and raise the bar every time.
3. Best Idea Wins – Check egos; let data and creativity decide.
4. We Play to Win – Compete hard for our customers, company, and team.
5. The Hard Is What Makes It Great – Hard challenges are where we thrive.
6. Extreme Ownership – Own the whole outcome; no excuses, just solutions.

If these principles get you excited, you’ll fit right in.

WHY THIS ROLE IS AN AWESOME OPPORTUNITY:

- Step into a proven machine: Refined talk tracks, tested sequences, and clear win stories.
- Founder-led sales: Work shoulder-to-shoulder with our founders. Our CEO has built and scaled revenue teams from scratch and is doing it again.
- Greenfield Territory: We are selling a new product into an untapped market. This is a rare opportunity for a seller to capture massive market share—your creativity and hustle carve new markets.
- Career rocket ship: Be one of our first GTM hires and grow into AE, Team Lead, or adjacent roles that develop over time.

## WHO YOU ARE

- Relentless Hunter – You live for opening doors and winning new logos.
- Customer-Obsessed – You measure success by the problems you solve.
- Speed & Craft Balanced – You crank volume without sacrificing precision.
- Idea-Seeker – You crave feedback and love when a better angle beats yours.
- Resilient Competitor – Tough targets motivate you, not intimidate you.
- Owner Mindset – You own outcomes end-to-end; no task is “not my job.”

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build a pipeline from zero: research, prospect, sequence, call, text, DM, and book demos you’ll eventually close as an AE.
- Spearfish strategic accounts: develop multi-threaded relationships with operators and HR leaders.
- Travel to conferences & plant floors: demo Sam live and lock in next steps on the spot.
- Feed the product loop: relay market insights directly to engineering so we win faster.
- Adapt daily: jump on any fire that accelerates company growth—startup life!

## SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- 1+ years in a quota-bearing hunting role (SDR/BDR, door-to-door, etc.) or equivalent record of competitive excellence.
- Consistent history of smashing activity and meeting goals.
- Crystal-clear written & verbal communication; you make complex ideas land.
- Organized and strategic—your CRM, calendar, and priorities are locked in.
- Bonus: familiarity with HR tech or frontline industries.

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Top of market cash and equity for top of market candidates
- In-office working in NYC and opportunities for ongoing collaboration
- 100% subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan options
- $250 Wellness subsidization

## About Achilles

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Achilles builds an AI-powered hiring platform that automates sourcing, screening, and scheduling for frontline teams in manufacturing, construction, logistics, hospitality, and oil & gas.
- **Entity Type**: Private (early-stage; funding details not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Read Egger (CEO), Ben Schoeggl (CTO), Owen Mahoney (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered recruitment software for high-volume frontline hiring
- **Target customers**: B2B – in-house HR and recruiting teams at companies with shift-based, hourly, and field workforces (manufacturing, construction, logistics, hospitality, oil & gas)
- **Mission / purpose**: “Build the agentic workforce platform for frontline HR, helping millions of workers get hired, onboarded, and supported” – with a focus on giving every candidate a fair shot and freeing HR teams from paperwork.

## Products & Services
- **[Sam – AI Recruiter](http://achilleshr.com/)**: A 24/7 multilingual conversational agent that engages candidates via text and voice, conducts custom pre-screens, schedules interviews, and updates the ATS. Handles call/text-to-apply, centralized messaging, and automated reminders to reduce no-shows. Supports 25+ languages with automatic translation.
- **Call/Text-to-Apply**: Dedicated phone lines and QR codes that capture applications via phone or text, reaching mobile-first, non-resume, and multilingual talent pools.
- **Scheduling & Q&A Hub**: One-click interview scheduling with calendar integration, arrival instructions, and a knowledge base for candidate questions (including public transit guidance).
- **ATS Integration**: Connects seamlessly with existing HRIS/ATS platforms, acting as a “system of action” while the ATS remains the system of record.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Headcount of 15 employees (as of early 2026); monthly website traffic grew +91.8% (1,800+ visits); LinkedIn followers ~1,135 (+0.8% monthly)
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed. Integrates with major ATS platforms.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Case studies show 2.2x hires, 70% reduction in time-to-hire, and 17 days faster fills for manufacturing roles.
  - Screened 1,000 oil & gas candidates in 24 hours, narrowed to under 200; filled 150 warehouse roles in under a week.
  - Team includes alumni from Meta, Tesla, Roblox, Traba, and Workrise.

## Competitive Advantages
- Built exclusively for frontline (shift-based, hourly, field) roles, not adapted from office hiring software.
- “Sam” operates 24/7 in 25+ languages, handling call, text, and web applications – reaching candidates without resumes or email.
- Deep industrial experience: founders have personally interviewed frontline teams in oil & gas, manufacturing, and construction.
- Retains the ATS as system of record while providing a frictionless engagement layer.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand vertically into logistics, construction, and hospitality segments.
- Deepen agentic automation (move beyond screening into onboarding and ongoing support).
- Scale reach through multilingual, mobile-first candidate capture and partnership with HR tech platforms.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a “talent-dense group of builders and operators” with backgrounds at Meta, Tesla, Roblox, MIT, Cornell, UW, USC, UIUC.
- **Benefits** (from [careers page](https://achilleshr.com/careers/)):
  - Fully paid medical for employees plus wellness support
  - 401(k) and meaningful equity
  - $50/day meal credit, gym stipend, and team outings
- **Work setup**: Headquartered in New York (two offices in NYC); hybrid/remote policy not explicitly stated, but small team suggests flexibility.
- **Team size**: ~15 employees, with a mix of engineering (30%), sales (20%), and product/design – offering high ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [AchillesHR website](http://achilleshr.com/)
2. [AchillesHR careers page](https://achilleshr.com/careers/)
3. [AchillesHR about page](http://achilleshr.com/about-us/)
4. [AchillesHR LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/achilleshr)
5. [Software Engineer job listing](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/achilleshr/3dc60ad8-8913-4ec5-bb62-c0ae5ec1c0a5)

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