At Branch, we’re on a mission to redefine how the world’s largest brands connect with their customers across every platform. Our mobile marketing and deep linking solutions are trusted to power seamless experiences that increase ROI, decrease wasted spend, and eliminate siloed attribution.

As a Sales Development Manager at Branch, you will play a critical role in our growth by leading and developing a team of SDRs. This role requires a strategic thinker with a passion for collaboration and a strong sense of accountability. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of driving results in a fast-paced environment, fostering teamwork, and ensuring that our SDR team meets and exceeds its targets. This role is hybrid and required to work in our downtown Austin office a minimum of 2 days per week.

As a Sales Development Manager, you’ll get to:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of SDRs to ensure individual and team success.
• Foster a collaborative team environment that encourages professional growth and continuous improvement.
• Set clear performance goals and provide regular feedback and coaching to team members.
• Develop and implement effective SDR strategies to drive lead generation and qualification.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure alignment on goals and strategies.
• Analyze data and metrics to identify trends, areas for improvement, and opportunities for growth.
• Collaboration and Cross-Functional Coordination:
• Work closely with Marketing to develop targeted campaigns and messaging.
• Coordinate with Product teams to stay informed about product updates and enhancements.Experiences Establish and maintain accountability for team performance through consistent monitoring and reporting.
• Implement effective training programs to ensure SDRs are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and manage underperformance with clear action plans.
• Continuously evaluate and refine SDR processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices to ensure the team remains competitive.
• Implement and leverage sales technology and tools to optimize team performance.

You’ll be a good fit if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• 2-5 years + of experience in a sales development rep role and with at least 2 years in a sales development management position with a SasS company.
• Proven track record of leading and developing successful SDR teams in a high-growth environment.
• Experience leading a team in a hybrid work environment going into the office 2+ days per week
• Strong understanding of sales processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across departments and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Data-driven mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• High level of accountability and commitment to team and company success.
• Proficiency with CRM systems (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot) and sales automation tools.

This role will be based at our Austin, TX office and follows a 2-day a week in office Hybrid schedule that will be aligned with our Return to Office guidelines.

In accordance with applicable law, the following represents a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role: the estimated pay range for this role, if based in Austin, TX, is $165000 - $180000. Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Austin, TX only. Compensation for candidates outside of Austin, TX will be based on the candidate’s specific work location. Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location and may be more or less than the amount shown above. Compensation for this role is base compensation + commission. Compensation shown is on target earning.

This role does not qualify for US visa support.

Position Summary

You’ll operate as a senior individual contributor and the de facto technical lead across our marketing web properties—owning architecture direction, enforcing coding standards, driving performance excellence, and accelerating high-quality feature delivery. You’ll mentor and oversee contractors, elevate engineering practices, and ensure our WordPress + modern JavaScript stack remains fast, maintainable, and experimentation-ready.

Why join Tipalti?

Tipalti is the AI-powered platform for finance automation, elevating how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. Our platform provides a comprehensive suite of finance automation solutions designed for mid-market businesses across accounts payable, global payouts, procurement, employee expenses, corporate cards, supplier management, tax compliance, and treasury. Tipalti partners with leading financial institutions such as Citi, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, and Visa, enabling over 5,000 global companies to efficiently and securely pay millions of suppliers and payees across 200+ countries and territories, in 120 currencies.

At Tipalti, we pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, the quality of our product and the capabilities of our people. Tipaltians are passionate about the work they do, and keen to get the job done. Tipalti offers competitive benefits, a flexible workplace, career coaching, and an environment where diverse individuals can thrive and make an impact. Our culture ensures everyone checks their egos at the door and stands ready to reach for success together. 

Founded in Israel in 2010, Tipalti is a global business headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area (Foster City) with offices in Tel Aviv, Plano, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and Medellin.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Architecture Ownership: Evaluate, refactor, and evolve the WordPress/PHP and frontend JavaScript architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance across all marketing web properties.
• Coding Standards & Governance: Establish and document front-end/back-end standards (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, performance, security basics); drive adoption through PR reviews and mentoring.
• Performance Optimization: Partner with WebOps to enhance site performance.
• Feature Delivery: Plan and implement new site features, embedding best practices for performance, accessibility, and maintainability in every release.
• Code Review & Quality: Maintain timely PR reviews, strengthen automated testing across unit, integration, and end-to-end levels, and ensure regressions are detected early through robust review and test practices.
• Technical Leadership: Provide direction, unblock issues, and ensure consistent output quality.
• Tech Debt Management: Systematically reduce technical debt by refactoring outdated templates, consolidating redundant scripts, and eliminating non-standard plugin dependencies to enhance platform stability and scalability.
• Analytics & Experimentation Enablement: Design, implement, and maintain robust tracking infrastructure and data layer taxonomy to support accurate analytics, event tagging, and A/B testing.

About you 

• 8+ years professional web development experience; 4+ years hands-on WordPress/PHP development at scale.
• Demonstrated lead-level influence (mentoring, establishing standards)
• Deep proficiency in PHP, modern JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3/SCSS, with a strong grasp of code architecture principles (Model-View-Controller). Skilled in asynchronous programming patterns and API integrations (REST/JSON).
• Proven record of improving page performance and Core Web Vitals on marketing or content-heavy sites.
• Testing mindset: comfortable with unit (PHPUnit), integration, and end-to-end (Playwright or similar) test strategies.
• Hands-on experience diagnosing and resolving cross-browser/front-end compatibility issues (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge) and responsive layout bugs across major mobile viewports.
• Experience conducting rigorous code reviews and enforcing coding standards.
• Ability to coordinate and technically lead contractors (provide clear tasks, feedback, quality gates).
• Ability to context switch between architectural work and hands-on feature implementation.

Our benefits package includes:

• Hybrid working model that requires you to be in the Plano office on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
• Competitive salary and equity
• Matching 401K
• Extended benefits, Employee Assistance Program, life insurance, AD&D, LTD
• Maternity, Paternity and Fertility Treatment benefits
• 15 days of PTO
• Subsidized lunch on office days
• Fresh fruit, snacks & drinks in office
• Phone/internet allowance 
• Regular company-wide social events
• Multiple ERG groups celebrating our diversity and creating an inclusive culture

Our tech teams are the engine behind our business. Tipalti’s tech ecosystem is extremely rich and we continually add new features to our products, ensuring that we respond to our clients’ needs at scale. Our tech teams retain a fast-paced, start-up vibe that encourages innovation and critical thinking. At Tipalti, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a diverse, global team of engineers, developers and product leaders who are collectively building the future of our best-in-class product suite as we transform financial operations for the future.

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