How I got here
SDR to AE in 6 months. Manager 6 months after that. Since then I have built SDR teams from nothing three times, across APAC, EMEA and the US.
JumpCloud
Manager, Sales Development · Nov 2025 to Oct 2026I led 10 SDRs in three pods: APAC outbound, APAC inbound and EMEA inbound. Identity, device and access management, sold to IT teams.
Fixing the handoff
Meetings were getting booked, but too few turned into real opportunities. I owned the fix across sales and marketing, signed off by the CMO. We rolled out ICEE, one way of qualifying that everyone used. Every handoff to an AE got a written email. And reps had to bring in more than one person from each account.
Outbound meeting to opportunity went from 17% to 49% in one quarter.
Rebuilding outbound
APAC outbound pipeline had nearly dried up when I took it over.
9x in one quarter, from $66K to $624K, with 283% more first meetings.
Running inbound
Clear rules on how fast leads get worked and how they are written up, and a weekly loop back to marketing on which leads were actually good.
MQLs at 181% of target in APAC and 135% in EMEA. SQLs at 114% and 110%. About $2.9M qualified pipeline in Q1 across the three pods.
Coaching with AI
Weekly call reviews on Gong, daily practice calls on Hyperbound, and AI Madness, a team competition to make the practice fun.
One rep’s unqualified meetings dropped from 70% to 10%, called out at the APAC all hands. A new hire hit 92% of target in 6 weeks. Two reps came off performance plans in 14 and 25 days.
Building tools
I built Inbound Intel and the POV Generator for my own team, so they could spend less of the day on research and more of it talking to buyers.
See the tools →Earlier roles
Rubrik
Manager, Sales Development
Built the US mid market SDR team from scratch. 8 reps.
- 143%, 120% and 105% of pipeline target, three quarters in a row.
- $5.6M pipeline in the best quarter.
- New SDRs ramped to quota in 90 days.
Branch
Manager, NA Sales Development
Set up a team in India selling for North America.
- New team from 0% to 105% of outbound target in 4 months.
- Inbound lead acceptance from 57% to 91% in 5 months.
- Wrote the team’s compensation plans.
ClickPost
Manager, Global Sales Development
One of the first hires. Built outbound and inbound from nothing.
- 2x SQLs and 80% more new accounts across APAC and EMEA.
- About 170% of target, quarter after quarter.
- Outbound conversion from 3% to 9%.
Udaan
Business Development Manager
Sold supply chain finance to small businesses, on an INR 12 Cr credit book.
Xoxoday
Sales Development Representative
Where it started.
- Best SDR Performer.
- Promoted to enterprise AE in 6 months.
Recognition and education
- Named one of the 100 Powerful Women in Sales, 2025 (Demandbase and Women in Sales)
- GrowthX Fellow
- Co-founded SDR Leaders of APAC in Aug 2025, a community for people who lead SDR teams
- 13,000+ followers on LinkedIn, where I write about sales development
- PGDM in Sales and Marketing, NMIMS. B.Com (Hons), Calcutta University
Let's talk
A role, a project, or just to compare notes on SDR teams. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
connectwithvandanaa@gmail.com