Sales Development Representative, Zen Educate
£25.5-30k
+ Uncapped Commission + Equity
4-5 days a week in office
Education recruitment platform
Open for applications
Education recruitment platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£25.5-30k
+ Uncapped Commission + Equity
4-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make a positive impact and bring about meaningful change within the education recruitment sector.
Role
Who you are
- You love talking to people and don’t shy away from picking up the phone
- You’re curious and coachable
- You’re motivated by targets and always looking to improve
- You want your work to matter and are excited by Zen’s mission
- You’re comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with ambitious goals
- You prefer and enjoy working in an office based, collaborative environment rather than remotely
- You’re organised and know how to manage your time effectively
What the job involves
- I’m hiring Sales Development Representatives to be the first point of contact for new schools and help to continue to engage new schools with our amazing offering
- As an SDR, you’ll be right at the frontline of what we do, introducing headteachers and school leaders to a smarter, fairer, more affordable way to hire great educators. If you love talking to people, want to break into tech, and care about making an impact, keep reading
- Reaching out to new schools by phone, email, and LinkedIn, being their first impression of Zen Educate
- Learn how to tell a compelling story and speak confidently about our platform and mission
- You will be asking smart questions to understand the school's needs, and identify where we can add value
- You will book meetings for our Account Manager and Account Executives to attend so that we can showcase our platform and offering
- Use our Zen Platform to track your outreach and pipeline
- You will work with our educators to help find them exciting opportunities within new schools, creating profiles and helping them find work!
- You’ll collaborate daily with the new business team to ensure we keep progressing
- You will experiment with new approaches to continue to drive success
- Celebrating wins and learning from every conversation
- You’ll be the face of Zen for new schools, setting the tone for long-lasting partnerships
- You’ll work directly with our top-performing SDRs and the wider New Business team
- You’ll be part of a fast-growing team that’s serious about your growth and development, with consistent development and career reviews
- You’ll help build a product that supports teachers and improves education outcomes whilst saving schools money
Application process
- Intro call with a member of our people team – A quick chat to get to know each other and cover the basics
- In person assessment centre in our offices in Oval – This is a group-style interview where we'll get to know you, do some role plays to assess your cold calling abilities, and an opportunity for you to meet the team and find out more about Zen!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With UK schools under immense financial pressure, Zen Educate is providing a smarter approach to education staffing. Recruitment in schools often relies on inefficient and expensive practices. Zen Educate is focused on tackling the pain points in the industry and providing a way to ensure schools get the best teachers possible.
It provides an online platform as an alternative to recruitment agencies, which is the only online platform accredited by the UK's Department of Education, helping schools fill staffing needs quickly and cost-effectively. Schools using the platform have reportedly saved 20-30% on supply cover costs.
On top of this, the company has also raised significant funding to support acquisitions in the UK and the US, plus the expansion of its operations and offering.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2025
$17.7m
SERIES B
May 2024
$37m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.1m
Company benefits
- Macbook and tech equipment provided
- Regular "lunch 'n' learns" every month on a range of topics
- Investment in your professional development
- Regular socials
- Ownership in the company
- Pension scheme
- 25 days of holidays + all UK public holidays off
- Central London dog-friendly office with perks like fresh fruit, bike parking, showers, and an on-site gym and café
- Life insurance
- Vitality health insurance and benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
Company values
- Commit to the mission- We commit to our mission, our customers, and our teams. We work hard because we care more
- Choose greatness over comfort- Greatness and comfort rarely coexist. We seek greatness. We understand success takes grit & determination so we seek colleagues that possess it
- Act like an owner- We all take responsibility for driving the company forward and making it a success. If we see something that could be better, we fix it. We offer stock options to all employees
- Help each other be better- Every person at Zen is someone we can respect and learn from
- A culture of trust- We hire people who are great at their jobs and we let them get on with it while being there to lend a hand when needed
- Challenge the status quo- We take action when we can see opportunities for improvement. We are in it to make our customers' lives better and to fix a broken system
- Embrace learning over perfection- We make decisions quickly and we don't hesitate. We may disagree with a decision, but we support the team and the mission by committing to it. We embrace making unknowable mistakes and learning from them
Company HQ
HQ, London
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Leadership
Slava Kremerman
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a member of the Leadership Team at Nutmeg a FS startup, they also worked at Barclays and Aon.
Oren Cohen
(Co-Founder & Chief Customer Officer)Ran the UK office of Optimizely, a Silicon Valley tech company. Prior to this, they worked at G-STAT and Intel.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zen Educate
- At Zen, we strive to build a culture of equity and inclusion, where everyone is respected, valued and appreciated for their unique traits, experiences and perspectives. We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive and equitable environment where our team can thrive, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, disability, religion or beliefs. We value our differences and believe that practices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion help us create a fairer, more compassionate environment for all
- We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and different experiences and perspectives — just like the staff who teach through Zen and the children at the schools we work with. We believe in hiring the best people from the widest pool and creating an inclusive culture where people’s voices are heard and all our team can look forward to coming to work
- We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and promoting an equitable and inclusive environment for all. We seek out diverse opinions, beliefs, and experiences because they collectively make us stronger; we’ve had former teachers, pilots, fundraisers, engineers, lawyers, marketers, social media experts and more join our team
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