Sales Development Representative (London - hybrid)

Astronomer empowers data teams to bring mission-critical software, analytics, and AI to life and is the company behind Astro, the industry-leading unified DataOps platform powered by Apache Airflow®. Astro accelerates building reliable data products that unlock insights, unleash AI value, and powers data-driven applications. Trusted by more than 800 of the world's leading enterprises, Astronomer lets businesses do more with their data. To learn more, visit www.astronomer.io.

01About this Role

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR) at Astronomer, you'll be the first point of contact for prospective customers and a key driver of pipeline for the sales team. You'll identify and qualify high-potential leads, introduce them to Astro, and set up meaningful conversations for our Account Executives. If you're hungry to build a career in sales and want to work with technology that data teams actually love, this is your role.

Location: This is a hybrid role, 4 days per week in our London office. Candidates who are within reasonable commuting distance will be considered.

02What You Get to Do

• Prospect & Outreach, Research and engage potential customers through outbound calls, emails, and LinkedIn to build a strong, consistent pipeline.

• Qualify Leads, Assess inbound and outbound leads for fit across needs, budget, and intent to convert them into Sales Qualified Leads (SQLs).

• Partner with Sales & Marketing, Work closely with both teams to refine MQL-to-SQL conversion strategies and keep high-quality leads flowing.

• Work Smart with Tools, Use Salesforce, sales automation platforms, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator to track engagement and sharpen your outreach.

• Stay Sharp, Keep up with industry trends, customer pain points, and Astronomer's evolving value prop so every conversation lands.

• Hit Your Numbers, Own your pipeline goals, outreach volume, meetings set, and conversion rates, and push beyond them.

03What You Bring to the Role

• Open to all experience levels, including new grads, any background in sales, business development, or outbound outreach (internships included) is a plus.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a knack for crafting outreach that actually gets responses.

• Resilient and self-motivated, you don't get rattled by rejection and stay focused on the goal.

• Able to break down technical concepts and connect them to what a prospect actually cares about.

• Ready to thrive in a fast-paced, in-person environment.

04Bonus Points If You Have

• Hands-on experience with CRM tools like Salesforce or HubSpot, sales automation platforms, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

• Exposure to the data engineering or analytics space, bonus if you've heard of Apache Airflow.

• Experience selling to technical personas like data engineers, analytics leads, or CTOs.

• Second European language

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At Astronomer, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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