Sales Development Representitive
Zinc
Sales & Business Development
London, UK
GBP 36k-36k / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 14, 2025
This role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a 🚀 fast-growing team driving Zinc’s mission to revolutionise background checking. With three years of consistent 2x year-on-year growth 📈—and plans to do it again—you’ll play a key role in our continued success.
As an SDR, you’ll master modern sales techniques, engage with prospects across multiple channels 📞📧, and contribute to the growth of a cutting-edge tech company 🖥️. Whether you’re starting your career or looking to take your sales skills to the next level, this role will set you up for success 💪✨.
- Application Deadline
- December 05, 2025
- Department
- Outbound (SDR)
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- Zinc - London
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Compensation
- £36,000 / year
Key Responsibilities 🔑
- Prospect Engagement: Identify and connect with potential customers through cold calls, emails, LinkedIn outreach, and video messaging. 📞 🖥️
- Storytelling & Communication: Deliver compelling messages that capture attention and communicate Zinc’s value proposition effectively.
- Sales Strategy: Use data to analyse your outreach, refine your approach, and improve performance.
- Pipeline Management: Generate, nurture, and qualify leads for the Account Executive team. 🛠️ 💡
- Collaboration: Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to ensure alignment and maximise opportunities.
- Continuous Improvement: Embrace coaching and feedback to refine your techniques and hit individual and team targets.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🤩⚡️💎
- Proactive & Motivated: You’re solution-oriented, thrive on challenges, and take ownership of your success. 🌟
- Ambitious & Coachable: You’re eager to learn, grow, and push through tough days with resilience and determination. 🚀
- Exceptional Communicator: You excel at storytelling and can quickly capture attention through cold calls, emails, and video outreach.
- Organized & Analytical: You enjoy using data to drive decisions and keep your efforts focused.
- Team Player: You value collaboration and contribute positively to a supportive team culture.
Experience in sales or tech is a bonus, but we’re more interested in your potential and attitude than your resume.
What we offer 🍉
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring.
- Uncapped Commission 💵💰
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat: this year we're going to Serbia 🇷🇸✈️🏞️
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to MoreHappi coaching
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries
⭐️ Career growth opportunities into leadership or AE roles.
⭐️ Weekly sales training to refine your craft.
⭐️ Access to top-tier sales tools and resources (Outreach, Hubspot, etc.).
About Zinc
Who we are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission
We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Video Exchange 📽️
Stage 2:
Talent Discovery Call ✨
Stage 3:
Google Meets Interview 💻
Stage 4:
Final In-Person Interview 🧍♀️🧍♂️
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