SDR Caller

As an SDR Caller at Apollo, you’ll be a front-line outbound specialist, generating top-of-funnel meetings through high-volume, phone-first outreach. Based in Austin, TX this early-career track role is trained in Apollo Labs' proprietary outreach methodologies and is on a pathway to become a future AE or AM. You’ll work from our Apollo offices at least 3 days/week, collaborating with fellow Callers, Managers, and Labs GTM teams.

A day in the life…

You’ll be responsible for:

• Owning phone-first outbound outreach for 2–3 Apollo Labs client campaigns
• Booking at least 13 qualified meetings per client/month with 70%+ hold rate
• Making ~210 dials per day using Apollo’s Parallel Dialer
• Mastering call architecture, talk tracks, and objection handling strategies
• Logging performance, taking coaching feedback, and improving week over week

You’ll learn the fundamentals of:

• Cold outbound strategy and campaign messaging
• Qualification, discovery, and objection handling
• Team-based collaboration and RevOps tooling
• Sales performance psychology and compensation-based motivation

Mindset and Behaviors

• Bring your grit and determination to advance our company’s values, unique culture, and future results.
• Engage as your unique self in a diverse, inclusive and high-performing team
• Thrive in a competitive environment, embracing challenges, enjoying objection handling, and using setbacks as fuel to improve and win.
• Have a positive outlook, a strong ability to take responsibility for successes and failures, and a relentless drive to keep improving.
• Maintain a sharp focus on your goals and a belief that your daily, weekly and monthly activities will help achieve them.
• Possess a competitive spark, a hunger to win, and a determination to outperform in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
• Be a self-starter who proactively identifies opportunities, takes initiative, and stays motivated in the face of multiple objections and “no’s.”

Minimum Qualifications

• Have at least 1 year of experience working with high volume calling environments or similar fast-paced, semi-repetitive work environments.
• Top performer in your current role.
• Proven track record of consistently meeting activity targets
• Experience using strong selling techniques & objection handling processes, day to day.
• Ability to communicate, present to, and influence key stakeholders across both technical and non-technical roles.
• Adaptable with the ability to pick up new technologies, assess situations quickly, and find smarter ways to achieve goals.
• Coachable— loves to learn, receive feedback, and improve their skills.
• Must be willing to be in office 3 days a week in our Austin, TX location.