US Sales Development Team Lead - Agentic AI

About the role

Humaans is building the next generation of infrastructure for the workplace; software designed for companies that are scaling fast, operating globally, and pushing into new boundaries. What started as a system of record has evolved into a broader platform for operating people globally. With Athena, our agentic AI layer, Humaans moves beyond data management into intelligent orchestration, connecting workflows across HR, IT, Finance, and Operations so organisations can act faster and with greater confidence, redefining how work gets done. We work with ambitious teams across Europe and the US, from AI-native companies like Lovable, Poolside, Fyxer AI, and Tandem Health, to established, high-growth organisations scaling internationally and through acquisition, including Quantexa, Sellpy, Manychat, Gigs, Croud, and Threecolts. These teams don't buy software for features,they buy leverage. The ability to run faster, cleaner, and with more control as complexity compounds. To date, we've raised $20m in venture funding from some of the most respected founders, operators, and funds in technology: Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Dylan Field (Figma), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Claire Johnson (Stripe), Oliver Jay (OpenAI), Jay Simmons (Bond) as well as Y Combinator, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, Pathlight Ventures, and Exor. If you have massive ambition and want to work on a hard problem, with a small team that moves fast, at a moment when the category is genuinely up for grabs - this is it. We're looking for a founding Sales Development Team Lead to build and run the outbound engine for our agentic AI product in America. You'll be the person who builds a group of hungry sales associates into a precision pipeline machine: setting the standard, building the playbook, and coaching the team to consistently generate the meetings that fuel our largest US logos. AI is how your team moves faster than the competition: better research, sharper sequences, smarter prioritisation. You'll be expected to know how to use it and how to make sure your team does too. This is a player-coach role. You'll carry your own outbound, make calls, and open target accounts yourself, then turn what works into the playbook the team runs. You'll be close to the work, running call reviews, shaping sequences, and holding the bar on quality, while creating the conditions for your team to grow fast. You won't be inheriting a playbook, you'll be writing it by doing it first. You'll work closely with our Founding US GTM Lead. Humaans is at the stage where the decisions you make now shape the company for years. You'll be building an AI-native sales development function in a greenfield US market, defining what it looks like, how it operates, and who it becomes. That work will compound for the next decade. Focus/Ownership The US outbound function for Athena, end-to-end: team performance, pipeline contribution, process, and development. Outbound strategy from a blank page, refining the playbook, and segmentation for the US enterprise, and using AI-assisted tooling to build sequences that adapt faster than a human-only process can. Coaching and developing your team through structured 1:1s, call reviews, and live deal support, creating a culture of continuous improvement and high performance. A tight partnership with the Founding US GTM Lead and Revenue Operations to ensure strong pipeline quality, healthy conversion rates, and a seamless handoff. Data and AI-powered analytics to drive decisions, tracking activity metrics, pipeline contribution, and conversion rates, and using AI tooling to surface patterns faster and act on them sooner. Acting as an early voice of the US market back to Product and Engineering as Athena's category takes shape. How you operate You have a true builder's mindset, creative in how you open doors, persistent without being reckless, and comfortable hearing "no" repeatedly while refining the approach, and you teach your team to do the same. You don't wait for perfect enablement, context, or certainty, you create clarity as you go. You measure your success by what your team produces, not what you do individually. You actively leverage AI and data as force multipliers: account research, sequencing, messaging iteration, prioritisation, and follow-ups. You move fast, test hypotheses, and adjust quickly when something isn't working. You bring a creative mindset to prospecting, constantly testing and implementing unconventional, high-impact approaches to engage target accounts.