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We’re Teya.\nTeya was founded on a simple belief: local businesses deserve better.\nThey are the cafés, restaurants, salons, shops and entrepreneurs that bring character to our high streets, create jobs and keep communities moving. Yet for too long, financial services have made life harder for them, with clunky tools, poor support and complexity that gets in the way of running a business.\nTeya exists to change that. We’re building a financial platform for local businesses across Europe, bringing together payments, business accounts and other business tools with simple technology and real human support. From card payments and business accounts to financing solutions, we help our Members spend less time worrying about their finances and more time doing what they love.\nWe move fast. We care about quality. We stay close to the detail. And we believe great performance and genuine hospitality should go hand in hand.\nIf you’re ambitious, enjoy connecting with people and want to make a genuine difference for local businesses, we’d love to hear from you.\nYour Mission\nWe’re looking for a Founding Sales Development Representative to help build and scale Teya Cities, our new approach to growing Teya’s presence in local communities, from our London office.\nTeya Cities brings our sales teams closer to the businesses we serve. By focusing on selected cities, building strong local teams and connecting our sales channels, we’re creating a more effective way to reach and support local businesses.\nAs one of our first SDRs, you’ll be the first point of contact for many prospective Members, speaking with local business owners, understanding their needs and creating opportunities for our Field Sales teams. You’ll also help shape how we prospect, qualify and engage businesses as Teya Cities expands.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nStart great conversations: Proactively engage prospective Members through outbound calls, email and other channels, turning prioritised leads into meaningful sales conversations.\n\nUnderstand what matters: Build rapport with business owners, ask thoughtful questions and understand their needs, challenges and potential fit with Teya’s products and services.\n\nCreate quality opportunities: Identify strong sales opportunities and arrange meetings with our Field Sales teams, giving them the context they need for a productive conversation.\n\nSee things through: Take responsibility for every opportunity you generate, confirming appointments, communicating clearly and following up to ensure meetings take place.\n\nDeliver results: Take ownership of your performance and consistently work towards your targets, focusing on opportunities that convert into new Members.\n\nStay organised: Keep accurate CRM records, manage your pipeline effectively and ensure every opportunity has a clear next step.\n\nHelp us improve: Test new approaches, share what you learn and help build a consistent, high-performing SDR approach that can be replicated in new cities.\n\nYour Story\nWe believe great salespeople come from all kinds of backgrounds.\nYou might already have experience in sales development, telesales or another customer-facing role. Or you might be earlier in your career, looking for an opportunity to develop your commercial skills in a fast-growing business.\nWhat matters most to us is your drive, your ability to connect with people and your willingness to learn and improve.\nWe’re looking for people who bring:\nAmbition and drive: You’re motivated by results, enjoy working towards challenging goals and take pride in delivering great performance.\n\nStrong people skills: You’re confident speaking with new people, build rapport quickly and know how to make a conversation engaging and relevant.\n\nCuriosity and commercial awareness: You ask good questions, listen carefully and enjoy understanding how businesses work and what matters to their owners.\n\nResilience and determination: You’re comfortable with rejection, stay positive and remain focused when things don’t go your way.\n\nCoachability: You’re open to feedback, willing to challenge yourself and always looking for ways to improve.\n\nOwnership and self-discipline: You’re organised, proactive and take responsibility for managing your time, activities and follow-ups.\n\nA builder’s mindset: You enjoy solving problems, experimenting with new approaches and helping create better ways of working.\n\nA team-first approach: You understand that great sales performance is a team effort and enjoy working closely with others to achieve shared goals.\n\nA genuine care for others: You believe every interaction matters and that building trust is just as important as generating a sale.\n\nExperience in sales development, outbound sales or telesales, working with small and medium-sized businesses, payments or fintech, or using CRM systems and outbound diallers is an advantage, but not essential.\nYou’ll also need:\nFluency in English.\n\nThe right to work in the UK.\n\nWillingness to work from our London office 5 days a week.\n\nThe Perks\nAlongside the opportunity to build your career in a growing European fintech, you’ll receive:\n25 days of paid annual leave, plus UK bank holidays.\n\nBupa private healthcare and life insurance.\n\nEmployer pension contributions through our company pension scheme.\n\nFree gym membership through Wellhub, alongside one-to-one therapy sessions, meditation and digital fitness and nutrition apps.\n\nEnhanced maternity and paternity leave.\n\nStructured onboarding, hands-on coaching and opportunities to grow your career at Teya.\n\nTeya is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, or background can thrive and do their best work. 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