Senior Sales Development Representative
Nuvocargo
Sales & Business Development
New York, NY, USA
Nuvocargo is building the operating system for North American freight. Our AI-powered platform — Nuvo AI — manages freight execution end-to-end for mid-market shippers, replacing the patchwork of brokers, spreadsheets, and siloed tools that most logistics teams run on today. We’re backed by Y Combinator, QED Investors, and NFX, and we’ve moved over 100,000 loads across US, Mexico, and Canada.
Why this role, right nowWe’re building our outbound sales engine from scratch. You won’t be inheriting someone else’s playbook — you’ll be writing it. The ICP is defined, the product-market fit is real, and the sales team is small enough that your work will directly shape how we go to market. If you want a role where you can see the impact of every campaign you run and every sequence you build, this is it.
- Pipeline generation. Design and run outbound campaigns — email, LinkedIn, cold call, events — that connect with VP and C-level logistics buyers at mid-market shippers.
- Tool stack. Select, implement, and iterate on the tools and data sources that power our outreach. You’ll have budget and autonomy to build the right stack.
- Qualification. Run initial discovery calls to qualify prospects against our ICP, understand their pain, and book meetings for our executive team.
- Experimentation. Test messaging, channels, cadences, and signals. Report back on what’s working, and iterate fast.
- Market intelligence. Feed pain points, objections, and competitive signals from the front line back to product and leadership.
- Research and build targeted prospect lists based on trigger events.
- Run multi-channel outreach sequences across 50–100 accounts.
- Conduct 5–10 discovery calls, qualifying prospects on freight spend, team size, tech stack, and urgency.
- Debrief with the AE team on qualified meetings — what the buyer cares about, what objections came up, and where they sit on BANT.
- Review campaign performance data and adjust messaging, targeting, or channel mix for the following week.
- 1–3 years in a sales development or outbound sales role, ideally selling into operations, logistics, or supply chain buyers.
- You’ve built outreach sequences before and have opinions on what works — not just what the playbook says.
- Comfortable using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, enrichment APIs) to accelerate research and personalisation. Willing to learn the ones you don’t know yet.
- You move fast, make decisions without waiting for permission, and course-correct quickly when something isn’t landing.
- Strong written communication — your emails get replies because they’re specific, not because they’re templated.
- Prior logistics experience is a bonus, not a requirement. Curiosity about the space matters more.
- You need a prescribed playbook. We’ll give you an ICP, messaging, and tools — but you’re expected to figure out the best way to reach these buyers and iterate based on results.
- You want strategy without execution. This is a hands-in-the-dirt role at an early-stage company. You’ll be doing the work, not delegating it.
- You wait to be told what to do. We need someone with a bias to action who ships campaigns, not decks about campaigns.
- Competitive salary, benefits, and equity — you’ll be an owner of the business.
- In-office 4 days a week at our Soho Office in New York.
- A front-row seat to building a sales org from the ground up at an AI-native logistics company.
- A team that takes the work seriously and each other not too seriously.
