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Divya Rao

CEO

United States10 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built and optimized SDR functions from the ground up.
  • Consistently exceeded sales targets and expectations.
  • Expert in aligning sales strategies with business goals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Sales Development Leader in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales Development LeaderBusiness StrategySalesBusiness Development

Other Skills

Team ManagementConflict ResolutionGTM strategySales ProcessesMarket ResearchNegotiationStrategyProduct DemonstrationHTMLMicrosoft SQL ServerDatabasesSDLCMicrosoft OfficeCRMHealthcare Information Technology

About

Tech sales professional. Doing my part in helping companies solve real-world problems with innovative technologies. Experience in IT/Operations at Stanford Healthcare and Indeed. Masters degree in CS and certified scrum master. Organized and highly motivated. Will work hard to get things done. My passion outside of work is traveling and cooking. I try to visit at least 3 different destinations in a year.

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 6 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Twingate

Director of Sales Development

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

  • Built the SDR function from the ground up, aligning pipeline strategy with company revenue goals.
  • Defined SDR vision, KPIs, and scalable processes across hiring, onboarding, enablement, and performance.
  • Shifted outreach from volume to quality, increasing reply and booking rates through targeted messaging.
  • Implemented and optimized the sales tech stack (Salesforce, Outreach, Keyplay, Sales Navigator) for efficiency and visibility.
  • Drove cross-functional alignment on ICP, lead routing, campaign attribution, and reporting with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps.
  • Coached underperforming SDRs to consistent attainment through structured enablement.
  • Designed comp plans, OKRs, and dashboards that tied SDR output to GTM success.
  • Trusted advisor in executive pipeline and outbound strategy discussions.
  • Cultivated a feedback-driven, high-accountability team culture during organizational change.
Sales development leaderBusiness StrategyTeam ManagementConflict ResolutionGTM strategySales Processes

Right door ventures

Founder

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Remote

  • Boutique Sales Consulting for Enterprise Technology Startups

Endor labs

Head of Sales Development

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, California, United States

  • First sales hire at pre-Series A startup (<14 employees); built the SDR function from the ground up.
  • Defined outreach strategy, set up the full sales tech stack (Outreach, Apollo, Salesforce, Sales Navigator, HubSpot).
  • Hired, onboarded, and ramped SDRs; built playbooks, processes, and KPIs from scratch.
  • Consistently beat team pipeline targets (200% attainment); recognized by CEO as top performer.
  • Turned around underperforming SDRs through structured coaching and enablement.
  • Created inbound/outbound cadences that drove engagement and conversion.
  • Represented Endor Labs at major industry events (RSA, OWASP) to drive top-of-funnel growth.*
SalesMarket ResearchConflict ResolutionBusiness DevelopmentNegotiationStrategy+2

Kentik

Sales Development Representative

Mar 2021Sep 2021 · 6 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

  • Consistently outperformed and exceeded SDR targets; best performer in the team.
  • Supported multiple territories
  • Collaborated with Director of Analytics; proposed new plan for lead generation based on major
  • network outage events
  • Tried innovative outbound strategies
SalesMarket ResearchConflict ResolutionBusiness DevelopmentNegotiation

Fossa

Lead SDR

Jan 2021Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas, United States

  • Was the first hire in Sales Development, worked closely with VP of Sales in defining structure,
  • processes for outbound sales development.
  • Consistently exceeded monthly meeting targets
  • Identified a new buyer persona and set up multiple successful meetings.
  • Experience taking introductory overview calls and demo sessions, performing lead qualifications
  • and moving the prospect to POC stage.
  • Interviewed, hired, onboarded and trained two additional SDRs. As lead, involved in ongoing
  • coaching and guidance.
  • Proposed, planned, executed transition of inbound lead handling from third-party to inhouse.
  • Translated business goals into specific SDR task-plan and targets, created effective email
  • cadences for inbound and outbound campaigns.
  • Regularly present metrics/plans/updates to company leadership.
SalesMarket ResearchConflict ResolutionBusiness DevelopmentNegotiationStrategy+2

Indeed.com

Content Operations Analyst

Jan 2019Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Austin, Texas

  • Responsible for identifying and acquiring quality content (job listings) for 5 Asian countries across channels (web, print, government job boards etc.).
  • Conducted extensive market research, data acquisition and validation / QA. Managed a network of freelance contractors for data acquisition activities.
  • Responsible for key business process for content aggregation.
  • Partnered with country leads in the field org for sales growth; Monitored/tracked content volume trends and recommended field-staffing levels.
  • Monitored key-metrics – generated reports, infographics, dashboards and insights for leadership.
  • Key accomplishments – consistently exceeded content delivery goals; identified process improvement opportunities; proposed new metrics and implemented proof-of-concept dashboard for improved visibility and efficiency of our work with contractors.
  • Created a vendor progress tracking process for real time visibility. This prevented negative surprises at the end of each quarter.
Conflict Resolution

Stanford health care

Systems Analyst

Mar 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Palo Alto, CA

  • Release Management:
  • Coordinate Epic testing activities.
  • Automation testing – identify gaps in existing test scripts, report and track defects, work closely with developers to fix issues.
  • Security:
  • Ongoing maintenance, activation, reactivation and termination of users on Epic.
  • User provisioning, access control, troubleshooting user issues related to security.

Goodwin college

Adjunct Instructor

Jan 2013Mar 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos · East Hartford, CT

  • Taught a computer applications course covering basics of computer hardware, software, internet, social media with a special focus on advanced features of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
  • Edited assignments, solved problems.

West chester university

2 roles

Graduate Assistant

May 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · West Chester, PA

  • Provided software and hardware support for the technical and computing infrastructure
  • (including computers, other classroom and lab equipment) of the College of Education.
  • Created and maintained user manuals and troubleshooting guides for all new equipment.
  • Performed website maintenance for the College of Education.

Consultant

May 2008Dec 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · West Chester, PA

  • Provided onsite field support and second level helpdesk support for students.
  • Software, hardware and network support – diagnostics, setup/installations, virus and spyware
  • removal, data backup and restoration, data recovery, system tune-ups, hardware replacement,
  • data/voice/video support, network registration, data/phone port repair.

Igate

Software Engineer/Tester

Jan 2007Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Project involved maintenance, enhancement and production support of a Transcend application
  • Created test plans, technical specifications; performed code migration to different environments and created software documentation. Used Oracle, PL/SQL, Magic and Silk testing tools

Education

West Chester University of Pennsylvania

MS — Computer Science

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