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Founding Sales Development Representative

Tamarind Bio logoTamarind BioYC W24
Founding role
TypeFull-time
SponsorshipNo visa sponsorship
Salary$70,000–$150,000
LocationSan Francisco, CA
Sales

We’re looking for an exceptional Founding SDR as our first GTM hire to scale our founder-led sales process for our enterprise customers.

We’ve grown from 0 to 7 figure revenue in one year, with just the founders, going live with many of the top 20 pharma, and raising 14M.

You’ll work directly with our CEO to develop and execute processes for generating and qualifying leads, managing outreach campaigns, engaging prospects throughout the pipeline, and potentially conducting field sales at industry conferences. 

What you’ll do:

  • Create pipeline in creative ways, e.g. conference attendees, scientific paper authors, tracking scientific partnerships 
  • Build outbound campaigns (email, LinkedIn, etc.) using tools like Apollo and Clays
  • Engage qualified leads via gotten through content, conferences, LinkedIn
  • Navigate sales cycles, procurement processes with prospective customers ranging from large biotechs to top 5 pharma
  • Work with engineering team to scope projects based on customer feedback and showcase product capabilities
  • Attend and present at drug discovery conferences

Requirements:

  • Previous experience in a sales role, selling a product at 5-7 figure ACV preferably SaaS or at a startup
  • Willingness to travel
  • Be based in person in San Francisco
  • Desire to learn more about drug discovery

Nice to haves:

  • Experience in life sciences
  • Experience in selling complex technical products
  • Automation/technical skills

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Company info

Tamarind Bio logo

Tamarind Bio

At Tamarind(https://www.tamarind.bio), we provide web interfaces and APIs for the leading publicly available molecular design tools. Users can run models like AlphaFold/Chai-1, RFdiffusion, ProteinMPNN and 200+ others with up to hundreds of thousands of inputs running in parallel. Customers, including many top 20 biopharma, use us to design de novo binders, stabilize/solubilize antigens, improve binding affinities of protein binders, and score Abs for developability.

Private companySeries AYC W24AI-product
HQSan Francisco, United States
Size11–50 employees
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
IndustrySoftware Development
Funding
  • Series A · $12M · Feb 24, 2026
Investors
Dimension Capital

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