Hire vetted offshoreSales Development Representative (SDR)s.
Outbound prospecting, lead generation, CRM hygiene and booked qualified meetings.
- Screened on real pipeline numbers
- Voice recording before you interview
- Payback on a single closed deal
- Role-specific AI training included
Recorded intros, prior work and references.
Get a sales development representative (SDR) shortlist
Named, vetted candidates with recordings and rates. No account, no call required.
How much does an offshore sales development representative (SDR) cost, and how does hiring one work?
Offshore SDRs cost USD 1,550–1,900 per month all-in through Sprint Labs, plus whatever commission structure you set. The Philippines is the strongest market for native-standard spoken English; Vietnam and India are strong for written and LinkedIn-led outbound.
Embedded in teams across six markets
How fast can I get a candidate started?
Tell us the role
Two minutes, no account. Seniority, start date, anything specific.
We recruit and vet
Skills tests, a working session and reference checks against your brief.
You meet a shortlist
Named candidates with recordings, prior work and a flat monthly seat cost.
They start, we manage the engagement
Contracts, contractor fees and payments, time off, performance concerns and replacement sit with Sprint Labs. Role-specific AI training is available from their start, scheduled when it suits you.
Same role. A fraction of the cost.
Mid-Senior annual seat cost compared with hiring the same role locally in Australia, including employer on-costs.
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed by Sprint Labs — included
- Replacement at no extra cost — included
- Dedicated full-time hire — included
- Contracted and managed for you — not included
- Replacement at no extra cost — not included
Local figure: midpoint of the AUD 70,000–80,000 salary range (SEEK job ads, Sydney, Oct 2026 (n=14), 2026) plus default employer on-costs. Sprint Labs figure: typical Mid-Senior price (band midpoint) × 12, converted from USD at the mid-market rate of 2026-11-05. Indicative only.
What does a strong sales development representative (SDR) change?
Outbound is a volume game with a quality floor, which makes it structurally well suited to offshore hiring — provided you screen for spoken English and coachability rather than years of experience. The economics are decisive: an offshore SDR costs roughly a quarter of a Sydney or San Francisco equivalent, so payback happens on a single closed deal.
What they own
- Build and enrich target account and contact lists
- Run multi-channel outbound: calls, email, LinkedIn
- Qualify inbound leads against your ICP
- Book qualified meetings for account executives
- Keep the CRM accurate and report on activity and conversion
What skills should a sales development representative (SDR) have?
- Cold calling
- Cold email sequencing
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Apollo / Outreach
- HubSpot & Salesforce
- Lead research & list building
- Objection handling
- Discovery questioning
- CRM hygiene
- Meeting-set follow-up
Practical AI training for your SDR
Outbound depends on research, relevance and accurate CRM records. Training shows your SDR how to use AI to prepare faster for calls and emails, and how to check every claim about a prospect before it reaches their inbox.
Account research before outreach
Compile a short brief on a practice target account covering company size, recent news, likely pains against your ICP and the right contacts to approach.
Each fact in the brief is traced to a dated public source or CRM record, and anything unverified is marked or removed.
Tailored email and LinkedIn drafts
Draft first-touch emails and LinkedIn messages for a sequence, each tied to a specific trigger such as a hiring post, funding round or product launch.
Names, titles, company details and claims are checked against the research brief, and messages follow your approval process before any sequence goes live.
Call notes into clean CRM records
Turn rough cold-call and discovery notes into structured CRM updates with qualification fields, decision makers, objections raised and agreed next steps.
The summary is compared with the original notes or call recording, and only confirmed details are written to the CRM record.
Given three fictional target accounts and a sample ICP, they research each account, write a tailored three-step sequence, and log a mock discovery call in a practice CRM, flagging any details they could not verify.
Available once your team member starts, scheduled when it suits you. No additional training fee.
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Sales Development Representative (SDR) seat cost, USD per month.
Indicative monthly fee covering the contractor's fee, recruitment and vetting, contracts, payments and FX, management support, replacement and role-specific AI training. There is no separate recruitment fee; your exact quote is generated in-app. Benchmarks in USD, reviewed .
What it costs
An offshore sales development representative (SDR) through Sprint Labs costs about USD 1,200 to 2,350 per month, all-in.
| Seniority | Monthly all-in rate USD | Approximate monthly AUD | Local salary, Australia AUD per year | Local salary, US USD per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate | 1,200 to 1,550 | 1,714 to 2,214 | ||
| Mid-Senior | 1,450 to 1,900 | 2,072 to 2,714 | ||
| Senior | 1,750 to 2,350 | 2,500 to 3,357 |
USD ranges use the role's existing all-in rates across recruitment markets. AUD is an indicative conversion using Sprint Labs mid-market billing FX feed, dated 2026-10-21: AUD 1 = USD 0.69997032. Actual quotes use the rate at billing.
Local figures are annual salaries, not monthly all-in staffing costs. Blank cells mean no reliable, seniority-specific benchmark has been verified. No salary percentiles have been relabelled as seniority bands.
- Entry
- USD 1,300–1,550
- Mid
- USD 1,550–1,900
- Senior
- USD 1,900–2,350
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,500
- Mid
- USD 1,500–1,800
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,250
- Entry
- USD 1,200–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,750
- Senior
- USD 1,750–2,150
- Entry
- USD 1,250–1,450
- Mid
- USD 1,450–1,800
- Senior
- USD 1,800–2,250
Entry-level covers capable candidates with 1–3 years' experience, best where the work is well defined and supervised.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Interviewing a sales development representative (SDR).
Listen before you interview
Every Sprint Labs SDR candidate submits a voice recording. Accent matters less than pace, warmth and clarity — but you should hear it before you spend interview time.
Run a live cold-call roleplay
Give them your ICP and 10 minutes' prep, then be a difficult prospect. You're testing recovery from a brush-off, not a polished pitch.
Check the numbers they claim
Ask for dials per day, connect rate, meetings booked per month and show rate at their last role. Specific numbers indicate a real seat; round numbers indicate a story.
Add AI accent conversion for $1/hour per user.
If the role spends time on the phone, our AI accent conversion neutralises accent in real time so every call lands clearly with your customers — without losing the person behind the voice.
Real-time neutralisation
Accent is softened live on the call, with latency low enough that the conversation still feels natural.
Their voice, preserved
Tone, pace, warmth and intent stay theirs. It is your actual team member on the line, just easier to follow.
Your existing phone system
Layers over the softphone or dialler you already run. No porting, no new platform, nothing to retrain.
Hire a sales development representative (SDR) from Asia.
Questions about hiring an offshore SDR.
Will an offshore SDR sound right to my Australian or US buyers?
For many buyers, yes — particularly with Filipino reps, who consistently score at the top of Asia for spoken English. The honest answer is that it depends on your market: mid-market SaaS and services buyers rarely care, while some enterprise and heavily relationship-led sectors do. Every Sprint Labs SDR shortlist includes a voice recording so you can judge before you interview.
How do commissions work for an offshore SDR?
You set the structure, typically a per-qualified-meeting or per-closed-deal bonus. Sprint Labs includes it in the contractor's monthly payment and adds it to your invoice, so you never handle cross-border payments directly.
What AI skills will my sales development representative (SDR) learn?
Your SDR learns to use AI for account research, tailored email and LinkedIn drafts, and turning call notes into accurate CRM records. Every fact about a prospect is checked against a source, and outreach follows your approval process before sending. Practice uses fictional accounts, and tool use depends on what your business approves.
Do I need a local entity to hire an SDR offshore?
No. Sprint Labs recruits and engages the SDR as an independent contractor, manages the contractor agreement, fees and payments, time off, performance concerns, replacement and offboarding, and bills you one monthly fee in your own currency. You interview and choose, then direct the work day-to-day exactly as you would an in-house team member.
How long does it take to hire an SDR through Sprint Labs?
Most briefs produce a named, vetted shortlist within 5–10 business days. From there you interview, choose, and we handle the offer, contract and onboarding — typical brief-to-start is three to five weeks depending on the candidate's notice period.
What happens if the hire is not the right fit?
Tell us within the first 30 days and we replace them at our cost. After that, engagements carry a 60-day cancellation notice, which protects the contractor and gives you time to hand over work, but if you want to swap rather than terminate, we run a replacement search in parallel at no additional recruitment cost.
Is AI training included with this placement?
Yes. Once your team member starts, they can enrol in role-specific AI training with no additional training fee. You choose when they enrol, and the self-paced modules run during their normal working hours.
Can the training align with our tools and AI policies?
Yes. The course teaches general skills on practice material, and how your team member applies them depends on the tools, access and AI policy your business approves. If certain work must stay AI-free, they follow your rules. Third-party software subscriptions aren't included and are agreed during onboarding.
Brief the role in two minutes. Shortlist in days.
Brief the role. See a shortlist within 5–10 business days.
Named, vetted candidates with recordings, prior work and references — plus a flat monthly seat cost in your own currency.
