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Fernstone

Founding Sales Development Representative

New York, United States

Location
New York, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Entry level
Function
Sales
Pay
$65K – $90K a year
Posted
6 weeks ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $90K a year, is 10% below the median of $100K for entry level sales jobs in New York (middle half $80K – $130K, 207 jobs that state pay).

2,892 sales jobs open in New York: 16% remote, 775 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

Fernstone is building a new kind of insurance company: we combine AI with expert advisors to place insurance faster and at better terms.

Insurance is a $1T category that still runs on pen and paper. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how insurance is bought, sold, and serviced.

We’ve raised $3M from YCombinator and other notable investors.

Fernstone was founded by James (BCG, Traba, UChicago) and Bryant (Google, SentiLink, Vanderbilt). We work in-person in our NYC office.

Since the start of the year we’ve grown from 0 to 500+ customers – we’ve built a compelling product with an average sales cycle of 15 days, and now we are scaling it up to reach thousands more.

As Founding SDR and our first dedicated sales hire, you will own demand generation across growth and sales:

  • Outbound: create and own our outbound channel - reach prospects through phone calls, convert interest into booked meetings
  • Inbound: meet with a healthy pipeline of interested customers, qualify them, close them
  • Growth: transmit sales execution work into scalable systems – generate and enrich leads, create sequences, and stand up new verticals to expand top of funnel

You are

  • Competitive
  • Ambitious
  • Gritty
  • Intelligent
  • A team player

We’ll be most excited if you

  • Have 0 - 2+ years of experience working on a team that requires outcome ownership (sales, high-growth startup, consulting/finance)
  • Have accomplished impressive things in a competitive environment – whether professional, academic, athletic, or otherwise
  • Have built something before and are excited about ownership, ambiguity, and fast execution

This is a founding role, and that is reflected in scope, compensation, and upside.

Source

Posted by Fernstone on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 12:18 UTC; the original is the reference.

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