Inbound Sales Development Representative
External
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About the role
This position is hybrid and based in our Boston office, with an in-office expectation of three days per week. n8n is hiring an Inbound SDR to qualify and convert high-intent inbound demand into pipeline for our US sales team. You will engage prospects already exploring n8n, assess fit, create urgency, and partner with Account Executives to ensure smooth handoffs. This is a high-volume, fast-paced role suited to someone early in their sales career who is curious about SaaS and technical products and wants to build a strong foundation in qualification, discovery, and pipeline generation.
Responsibilities
- Qualify inbound leads and convert high-potential interest into sales opportunities
- Conduct discovery to understand each prospect's business context, technical needs, urgency, and fit
- Develop a working knowledge of n8n's automation and AI capabilities and how they apply to technical teams
- Partner with Account Executives on clean handoffs, meeting context, and next steps
- Engage prospects across email, phone, LinkedIn, and other channels
- Personalize outreach based on use case, company context, and intent
- Maintain accurate Salesforce data across leads, accounts, activities, and opportunities
- Operate effectively in Salesforce, Outreach, Apollo, and AI tools
- Apply coaching and performance feedback to improve qualification, objection handling, and prioritization
Requirements
- Some exposure to sales, customer-facing work, or relevant internships, with clear motivation to build a SaaS sales career
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to ask thoughtful questions and explain ideas clearly
- Emotional intelligence and the ability to build rapport quickly
- Curiosity about SaaS and how technical teams solve business problems
- Organized, reliable, and able to manage follow-up and competing priorities
- Proactive ownership of preparation, learning, and continuous improvement
- Based in Boston and able to work from the office three days per week
- Prior exposure to B2B SaaS through work, internship, or study
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce, Outreach, Apollo, HubSpot, or similar tools
- Interest in automation, AI, developer tools, IT, DevOps, or SecOps
- Practical use of AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude for research and productivity
- Prior experience with inbound leads or early-stage qualification
- n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.
- Our company language is English.
- You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n ( https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35 ).
Benefits
Additional Information
The AI orchestration of your wildest imagination. n8n is the open workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we're changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we've grown into a diverse team of over 260 - working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit and with our centre of gravity in Berlin. Along the way, we've: Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders Earned 190K+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world's Top 40 most popular projects Backed by top investors, from Sequoia's first German seed to our SAP's recent strategic investment - bringing us to a $5.2bn valuation That's the company we've built. Now we'd love to see what you can build. If you're applying, try n8n out - whether you're technical or not - and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register . We're in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.
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