Roe

Sales Development Representative at Roe (San Mateo, CA)

Roe· San Mateo, CA· $60k–$75k·

Role details

Salary
$60k–$75k
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

About Roe

Roe AI (YC W24) builds AI agents for fraud, AML, and risk investigation teams. Our agents gather data, investigate cases, and write up findings with a full audit trail, turning hours of work into minutes.

We're a small, technical team with paying customers including eBay, Affirm, Kalshi, and TikTok. We're hiring our first SDR to help turn that traction into a repeatable outbound sales motion.

The role

You'll work directly with our Head of Sales and CEO to open conversations with fraud, AML, and compliance leaders. You'll help decide who to target, test messaging, and turn interest into qualified opportunities.

We're early, so expect ownership, direct feedback, and some figuring things out as you go.

Why join now

Joining early gives you room to grow and a real say in our outbound strategy, messaging, marketing, and conferences. You'll have goals to hit, support from experienced leaders, and the freedom to try things, make mistakes, and get better. As Roe grows, you'll help shape where your career goes next.

What you'll do

  • Build outbound pipeline across banks, fintechs, and marketplaces
  • Research accounts and map buyers across fraud, AML/BSA, compliance, and risk
  • Run outreach through email, LinkedIn, and phone
  • Lead first calls, qualify opportunities, and hand them off with clear context
  • Help build our messaging, sequences, tooling, and reporting
  • Travel to industry conferences to represent Roe and meet prospects

What we're looking for

  • Experience winning people over, whether in sales, retail, hospitality, customer service, or elsewhere. One to three years of SDR/BDR experience is welcome, but not required
  • A competitive streak. Experience in sports, Model UN, debate, or other competitive pursuits is a plus
  • Clear writing and strong communication skills
  • Willingness to speak with senior leaders and learn a technical product
  • Initiative and comfort working without a detailed playbook
  • Real interest in AI and eagerness to use it
  • No college degree required. Startup, fintech, regtech, or compliance experience is a plus.

Compensation and benefits

  • Uncapped commission. Target commission is 15–20% of base salary.
  • Full healthcare, dental, and vision coverage
  • Free lunch on office days
  • $200 monthly commuter stipend
  • Hybrid schedule with three days per week in our San Mateo office
  • Flexible PTO
  • Team bonding events

Why work at Roe

  • Culture: Small founding team (12 people) in San Mateo, hybrid in-person. No legacy stack, no committees – ship daily to real customers.
  • Tech stack: Frontier models (Anthropic, OpenAI, open-weight, in-house), greenfield runtime, daily releases. Engineers own the full stack from agent orchestration to surfaces analysts touch.
  • Impact: Work directly on the evaluation harness, memory systems, and tool interfaces that determine whether an investigation is trusted by regulators.
  • Open roles: Founding Staff Engineer (AI Agent), Founding Software Engineer (AI Agent), Forward Deployed Engineer.

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