Sales Development Representative

Sales Development Representative (SDR) – Sweden Reference: BH-410c Job Type: Freelance Location: Remote (Sweden) About ByteHire ByteHire is a specialist technology recruitment business helping companies hire high-quality technical talent across the Europe, US and international markets. We take a technical-first approach, combining specialist recruitment with structured screening and engineering-led technical validation to give clients greater confidence in the candidates they interview. We are looking for a driven Sales Development Representative (SDR) to help grow our Sweden client base by identifying potential customers, starting conversations and generating qualified sales opportunities. About the Role This is an outbound sales development role focused on prospecting and lead generation. Your primary responsibility will be identifying technology companies with recruitment needs, finding the right decision-makers and engaging them through phone, email and LinkedIn. You will research prospects, run targeted outreach campaigns, follow up consistently and qualify potential opportunities before progressing interested companies through ByteHire's sales process. You do not need to be an experienced recruiter. We are primarily looking for someone who is confident speaking to businesses, comfortable with outbound prospecting and motivated by generating new opportunities. You will be supported by ByteHire's sales, recruitment, sourcing and technical teams, giving you a strong service to take to market. What We're Looking For We are looking for someone who is proactive, confident and comfortable creating opportunities from a cold start. You should enjoy researching companies, finding the right people to approach and starting conversations with people who may not already know ByteHire. You will need to be comfortable with rejection, persistent with follow-ups and motivated by targets around outreach, conversations, qualified opportunities and meetings booked. Most importantly, you should be able to communicate naturally and professionally without relying on generic, high-volume sales messaging. Responsibilities

• Identify technology companies that could benefit from ByteHire's recruitment services.
• Research target accounts and identify relevant hiring decision-makers.
• Prospect CTOs, founders, engineering leaders, talent teams and other key contacts.
• Conduct high-quality outbound prospecting through phone, email and LinkedIn.
• Personalise outreach based on the company, its hiring activity and potential recruitment needs.
• Make cold calls and confidently introduce ByteHire's services to prospective clients.
• Follow up consistently with prospects across multiple channels.
• Qualify leads to understand their hiring requirements, challenges and potential recruitment needs.
• Generate qualified sales opportunities and book meetings with interested prospects.
• Maintain accurate prospect, activity and follow-up information within the CRM.
• Build and manage a consistent pipeline of prospective Swedish technology clients.
• Work closely with the wider ByteHire team to identify companies actively recruiting technical talent.
• Develop your understanding of ByteHire's services and confidently communicate what differentiates us from traditional recruitment agencies.

Key Experience

• Previous experience in sales development, business development, lead generation or outbound sales.
• Comfortable making cold calls and speaking directly with business decision-makers.
• Experience using email and LinkedIn for outbound prospecting.
• Strong research and prospecting skills.
• Ability to identify and qualify potential sales opportunities.
• Confident communicating with senior stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organised approach to managing leads and follow-ups.
• Comfortable working towards activity and opportunity-generation targets.
• Resilient, self-motivated and able to work independently in a remote environment.

Desirable Experience

• Previous SDR or BDR experience within recruitment, staffing or professional services.
• Experience selling recruitment services to businesses.
• Previous recruitment agency experience.
• Experience prospecting within the Swedish technology market.
• Familiarity with software engineering, AI, cloud, DevOps, data or cybersecurity hiring.
• Experience using CRM and sales prospecting platforms.
• Experience researching companies based on hiring activity or other sales signals.

What Success Looks Like Success in this role will be measured primarily by your ability to:

• Build a consistent pipeline of relevant prospective clients.
• Generate conversations with technology hiring decision-makers.
• Identify genuine recruitment opportunities.
• Book qualified sales meetings.
• Maintain consistent and well-organised follow-up activity.
• Develop prospects into genuine opportunities for ByteHire.

Why Join?

• Focus on outbound sales and opportunity generation without needing to deliver recruitment assignments yourself.
• Attractive, uncapped commission structure.
• Opportunity to progress into a broader business development or sales role.
• Sell a differentiated recruitment service backed by technical screening and validation.
• Work with a team that supports you with prospect research, recruitment delivery and technical expertise.
• Build relationships across the Swedish technology market.
• Fully remote, independent working arrangement.