Companies hiring their first SDR

By the RoleDawn team · Published 2026-10-06 · Updated 2026-10-07

As of October 7, 2026, 42 companies started posting SDR / BDR roles in the last 30 days, including Nory, Gradient Labs and Forum Ventures. 7 of the job posts call the role "founding" or "first". RoleDawn finds them by checking company career pages every day for a team that is new on their board; the full live list, with a link to every job post, is at roledawn.com/first-hire/sdr.

Which companies started hiring their first SDR this week?

In the last 7 days, 42 companies posted an SDR / BDR role for the first time we have seen on their careers page; here are the 20 most recent:

• Nory — Business Development Representative (US) (2026-10-07, New on their board)
• Gradient Labs — Sales Development Representative (2026-10-07, New on their board)
• Forum Ventures — Market Development Representative (2026-10-07, New on their board)
• SwiftConnect — Sales Development Representative (2026-10-07, New on their board)
• ZenBusiness — Outbound Sales Representative (2026-10-07, New on their board)
• Nitro — Business Development Representative NAMER (Hybrid) (2026-10-06, New on their board)
• Develop Health — Sales Development Manager (2026-10-06, New on their board)
• Valerie Health — Business Development Representative (2026-10-06, New on their board)
• Ampeco — Business Development Representative - LATAM (2026-10-06, Likely new team · inferred)
• Apaleo — Business Development Representative – DACH (f/m/d) (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• DNSFilter — Business Development Representative (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Evolve — Sales Development Representative (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• VISASQ/COLEMAN — Business Development Associate (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Roofr — Field Sales Development Representative (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Kodiak Solutions — Sales Development Coordinator (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• M3 — Business Development Representative-Outbound (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Babel Street — Sales Development Representative (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Weee! — Business Development Associate (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Breeze — Business Development Representative (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)
• Coperniq — Founding BDR (2026-10-05, Likely new team · inferred)

Every Monday the Weekly List picks 20 companies that just started hiring for sales (first SDR/BDR, AE or RevOps role), each with the public job post and a suggested opening line. See this week's list, free →

Where are the new SDR teams?

By the country of the job post: United States (27), Germany (3), Canada (2), Brazil (1), Japan (1) and Mexico (1); 4 remote or with no country given.

Which of them are building the whole sales team at once?

4 of these companies also started a new RevOps or Sales (AE) team in the same 30 days: Develop Health (Sales (AE)), DNSFilter (Sales (AE)), Roofr (Sales (AE)), Kombo (RevOps).

Why does a first SDR hire matter if you sell to them?

A first SDR team needs dialers, sequencing tools, intent data and contact data within the first 90 days. The weeks around the hire are when those decisions get made, which makes the job post a timely, specific reason to reach out. It is a timing signal, not proof of budget.

How does RoleDawn find companies hiring their first SDR?

RoleDawn checks 4,481 company career pages on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and Workday every day, sorts every title into one of 43 role families, and flags a company the first time an SDR / BDR role appears on its board. Each row is labelled "New on their board" or "Likely new team · inferred"; see the full definitions.

Prefer to search by hand? How to find companies hiring their first SDR walks through free job-board search operators and how to tell a first hire from a backfill.

How do I get a Slack alert when a company hires its first SDR?

Create a RoleDawn monitor for SDR / BDR and paste a Slack incoming-webhook URL. Every morning at 13:00 UTC, the companies that newly match post to your Slack channel, each with a link to the job post. Setup takes about five minutes:

1. Create a Slack incoming webhook for the channel you want, using Slack's guide. It looks like https://hooks.slack.com/services/…
2. Start a 14-day free trial (no card). Starting from this page, your first monitor already watches SDR / BDR; the 3-step setup lets you add a region, required keywords and a target account list of up to 500 companies.
3. Paste the webhook URL in the last setup step, or later under Delivery in your dashboard. Save it, then click "Send test to Slack" to check the channel.
4. Read the morning message. Each line shows the signal label (New on their board or Likely new team · inferred), the company and the job title linked to the post. If more than 40 companies match on one day, the rest are in your dashboard.

Slack alerts are included in the trial and in the Pro ($99/month) and Agency ($199/month) plans; Starter ($49/month) sends the same digest by email. All monitors on an account post to the same Slack channel. Watching a list of named accounts instead? See how to get Slack alerts when target accounts post new jobs.

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