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# Sales Development Representative at Haast

- **Company:** Haast
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Haast/98d86841-9ff3-4081-a337-0caa3a7b32ae

## Job description

Founding Sales Development Representative Brooklyn, New York (Hybrid)

Ready to stop running on someone else’s playbook and write your own?

## About Haast

We aren’t experimenting with AI. We’re shipping one of the first enterprise-grade AI platforms for compliance, already in production with global enterprises. Our platform helps legal, compliance and marketing teams move through reviews up to 80% faster, with a 4x boost in productivity. We’ve recently raised a $12M Series A led by Peak XV Partners, with DST Global and Airtree. Now we’re building the commercial engine to match. Think Canva for design. Atlassian for projects. Haast for compliance.

## Why this role exists

Compliance is a $50B global opportunity, and every deal we close starts with a conversation. Right now, nobody’s job is to start them. That’s where you come in. As our first SDR, based in our Brooklyn office, you’ll work side by side with our CEO and Founding Enterprise AE. You’ll build the pipeline behind Haast’s next stage of growth and write the playbook every SDR after you will run.

## What you’ll own

Most of your time goes into creating qualified pipeline. The rest goes into building the process that lets others do the same.

Pipeline

- Phone first: Run daily outbound across phone, email and LinkedIn into target accounts. The phone is your first move, not your last resort.
- Warm pipeline: Work the demand that marketing generates through content, events, webinars and community, and act fast on the inbound signals that matter, from website visits to demo requests.
- Events into meetings: Personally invite the right people beforehand, then co-own follow-up with our Founding Enterprise AE to book meetings while the momentum is there.
- Discovery that holds up: Run structured discovery against our ideal customer profile and book meetings our Founding Enterprise AE accepts.

Playbook and process

- Write the playbook: Build, test and document talk tracks, sequences, objection handling and qualification criteria. Keep what works and drop what doesn’t.
- Own the numbers: Keep our CRM clean, report on meetings booked, acceptance rate and conversion, and recommend changes to tools and process.
- AI as leverage: Use AI to multiply your output across account research, personalization and sequencing, and keep testing new workflows.
- Voice of the market: Bring what you hear on calls back to marketing, product and sales leadership: which titles respond, which industries engage, the objections and the buying triggers. Your insight sharpens our ICP and personas.

You might be a fit if you:

- Have outgrown your seat: You’re an experienced SDR or BDR from B2B software who consistently hits or beats meeting and pipeline targets, and you’re ready for a role you get to build.
- Improve the process, not just follow it: You’ve built or rebuilt sequences and you can show what changed as a result.
- Love the numbers: You track your own funnel, run message tests, and can explain what you changed and why.
- Hold your own with senior buyers: You’re comfortable engaging director level and above, and bringing several functions into one conversation.
- Write and speak with credibility: Clear, concise and confident with people who are paid to be skeptical.
- Already work with AI: Claude, ChatGPT or similar are part of how you research and prospect today, not something you’re planning to try.
- Know the tools: HubSpot (or Salesforce), LinkedIn Sales Navigator and any other tools you've seen work well.

## Nice to have, but not essential

- Selling to marketing, compliance, legal or risk buyers
- A background in compliance software, regtech or legal tech
- Time at an early-stage startup where things moved quickly!

## Why Haast

- A founding seat: Be the first SDR at a Series A company and shape how we go to market.
- Clear (and fast) growth pathway: Build the function, prove it works, then lead the team that follows or step up into enterprise sales ownership if that's the route you want to take
- Compensation: Base salary $60-$80k USD with up to 30% on top in commission and meaningful equity options.
- Flexibility: Hybrid from our Brooklyn office.
- Benefits: Health insurance, 401k and generous PTO
- Learning velocity: Learn more in 12 months than most roles offer in three years, with daily access to our CEO and Founding Enterprise AE.
- Traction behind you: You’ll be opening doors for a product global enterprises already trust, with the results to back it up.

Ready to build the pipeline you’ll be talking about for the rest of your career?

How to apply Apply with your CV and the first email you’d send to win a meeting. Pick a company you think should be talking to Haast and write to their Head of Compliance in under 120 words. If you used AI to help, tell us how. At Haast, we believe bold ideas come from diverse perspectives. We’re committed to building a team that reflects the world we work in, across gender, background, orientation, ability and experience. Even if you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you. Applications reviewed on an ongoing basis, no closing date.

## About Haast

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Haast provides an AI-powered compliance operating system that automates the review, monitoring, and management of marketing and content compliance for highly regulated industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Kunal Vankadara and Liam King

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Regulatory Compliance Software, AI-Powered Content Review, Marketing Compliance
- **Target customers**: Enterprise businesses in highly regulated industries including Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, FMCG/Retail, Telecoms, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Utilities, and Transportation.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To remove manual work from marketing and content compliance, enabling organizations to achieve higher compliance faster without painful time-consuming reviews – unlocking time for your team to do more skilled work they enjoy, and value for your business." [haast.io](https://haast.io/about)

## Products & Services
- **Haast Check (Core Platform)**: An AI-powered compliance review system that automates pre-publish content reviews. It learns an organization's specific risk tolerance and applies it consistently across content, product cycles, and customer communications. Integrates with tools like Figma, Office365, Workfront, and Google Docs. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
- **Compliance Risk Monitoring (Post-Live)**: Real-time scanning of websites, social media, and partner sites to detect compliance drifts and risks across the entire digital footprint. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
- **Regulatory Change Tracking (Beta)**: Automatically monitors regulatory changes relevant to a company's region, industry, and business, providing alerts and automated impact assessments. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised is **$16.75M** (Series A). The latest round was a **$12M Series A** announced in April 2026. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haast)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Black Sheep Capital, Aura Ventures, AirTree Ventures, Peak XV Partners, DST Global, and 11 others. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haast)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **Headcount Growth**: The company has grown rapidly from ~16 employees to **35 employees** (as of mid-2026), representing a **116.7% year-over-year increase**. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/haast-ai)
    - **Hiring Velocity**: Active job postings have grown **600% year-over-year**, with monthly hiring up 27.3%. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/haast-ai)
    - **Market Traction**: The platform claims to cut marketing review time by 80% and accelerate go-to-market speed by 3x. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Risk-Tolerance Customization**: Unlike generic AI tools or keyword-based scanners, Haast learns and applies an organization's unique risk appetite, dramatically reducing false positives and ensuring defensible compliance. This is a core differentiator. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
- **Attorney-Led Implementation**: The company's in-house legal team (a mix of ex-lawyers and consultants) works directly with customers to translate policies and precedents into the system, ensuring accuracy from day one. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
- **End-to-End Lifecycle Coverage**: Haast covers the full compliance lifecycle—from pre-publish review to post-live monitoring and regulatory change tracking—all within a single platform. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: Offers SSO, granular admin controls, and data encryption, designed to meet the stringent data privacy requirements of regulated industries. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: The company is actively developing its "Regulatory Change" (Beta) feature, indicating a push from reactive compliance review to proactive regulatory intelligence.
- **International Growth**: While headquartered in Australia, the company is hiring for roles based in the US (e.g., "Legal AI Implementation Strategist - Move to the US!") and has employees across the US, Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, and India, signaling a global go-to-market strategy. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/haast-ai)
- **Deepening Enterprise Sales**: The focus on enterprise account executives and field marketing roles suggests a move to capture larger, more complex clients in new geographies.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact, Early-Stage Environment**: With only 35 employees and strong funding ($16.75M), new joiners will have significant ownership and influence over the product and company direction.
- **Culture of Autonomy and Craft**: The company's stated values include "Own It" (trusting team members to do what’s right), "Stay Curious" (innovation and experimentation), and "Back the Team" (support and celebrate wins). [haast.io](https://haast.io/careers)
- **Diverse, Cross-Functional Team**: The team is composed of ex-lawyers, consultants (BCG, Deloitte), and engineers, creating a unique blend of domain expertise and technical skill.
- **Remote-First with Global Reach**: The team spans time zones and continents, offering flexibility. While the HQ is in Sydney, the company is actively hiring for US-based roles, suggesting a hybrid/remote-friendly policy.
- **Meaningful Problem**: Employees work on solving a genuine, painful bottleneck for enterprise businesses, directly impacting how quickly and safely products go to market.

## Sources
1. [haast.io](https://haast.io/)
2. [haast.io - About](https://haast.io/about)
3. [haast.io - Careers](https://haast.io/careers)
4. [cbinsights.com - Haast Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/haast)
5. [linkedin.com - Haast Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/haast-ai)

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