Manager, Enterprise Sales Development

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. The role, in a nutshell: As the Manager of Business Development, you will lead and mentor a team of BDRs responsible for outbound opportunity generation. Your role involves hiring and onboarding new BDRs, developing and implementing strategies to optimize the BDR team's performance, setting and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs), and ensuring alignment with the company’s overall sales goals. You will provide hands-on coaching and development, drive repeatable progress toward pipeline targets, and foster a collaborative environment to enhance productivity and motivation. In addition, you will work closely with the Senior Manager of Business Development, Marketing leaders, and Sales leaders to refine lead generation tactics, manage pipeline generation, and improve top of funnel conversion rates. Your leadership will be crucial in achieving pipeline targets and driving the overall success of the Business Development function at Chainguard . What you’ll do: Continue to build out our growing BDR function, working with recruiting to identify top talent to hire and onboard Develop your team’s skills for outbound prospecting, qualifying, and opportunity creation Provide ongoing feedback and coaching in recurring weekly 1:1s to ensure BDR team members develop skills and performance over time Work closely with the Demand Generation team to provide feedback on MQLs