Full-Time

Sales Development Representative – Graduates

Posted on 9/11/2025

Rilla

Rilla

51-200 employees

Speech analytics for outside sales coaching

Compensation Overview

$70k/yr

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Lead Generation
Cold Calling
Requirements
  • You have to be highly organized and attentive to detail.
  • You are a team player who loves to give and receive feedback and functions well when coached.
  • If you’ve succeeded in highly competitive sports, this is probably you.
  • You have something to prove. You’re resourceful, persistent, extremely competitive, and unrelentingly positive even in the face of failure.
  • You know how to communicate well verbally and in writing.
Responsibilities
  • Own the top of the sales funnel—prospect, research, and engage new leads daily.
  • Book qualified meetings for our Account Executives through cold calling, email, and LinkedIn outreach.
  • Build a pipeline by reactivating leads that went cold previously.
  • Become an expert on our product, our customers, and the sales process to spark conversations that convert.
  • Travel to conferences to close deals with prospective customers on the spot, or book demos for our AEs.
  • Follow up with the massive amounts of leads we get from conferences through email or calling.
  • Call inbound leads we get organically from our website.
  • Put out fires. Help with anything that’s needed. Your main priority will be to help our startup grow faster.

Rilla Voice provides speech analytics for outside sales teams. Its main product is a virtual ridealong that records, transcribes, and summarizes sales conversations to give coaching insights. It works by capturing calls, generating transcripts and summaries, and surfacing analytics that managers can review remotely to coach reps. The goal is to help businesses boost sales performance and efficiency with scalable, data-driven coaching.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$3.9M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • TAM expansion beyond trades into banking, telco, CPG, and medical sectors with identical outside sales coaching model.[3]
  • AutoShop Answers partnership (April 2025) validates automotive vertical with Todd Hayes' 30-year industry credibility driving adoption.[1]
  • Founder Sebastian Jimenez combines NYU Stern business training with sales psychology expertise, differentiating coaching methodology versus competitors.

What critics are saying

  • ServiceTitan can replicate speech analytics internally and commoditize feature for 10,000+ contractor users within 12–24 months.[5]
  • Gong and Chorus.ai pivot to in-person sales with 10x Rilla's funding, achieving feature parity in HVAC/roofing.[4]
  • Regulatory crackdown on AI speech recording enforces opt-in consent, eliminating 100% conversation visibility and triggering client churn.

What makes Rilla unique

  • AI transcribes and analyzes face-to-face sales conversations, enabling coaches to provide feedback remotely.[1][3]
  • Proven 40% close rate increase and $53 average ticket lift across Benjamin Franklin Plumbing, One Hour Heating & Air, Mister Sparky Electric.[2]
  • Embedded integration with ServiceTitan ecosystem reaches 10,000+ contractors; AutoShop Answers partnership expands into automotive sector.[5]

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Flexible Work Hours

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

8%

1 year growth

5%

2 year growth

4%
PR Newswire
Apr 27th, 2025
Autoshop Answers And Rilla Launch Groundbreaking Ai Initiative -- Changing The Automotive Industry Forever

HOUSTON, April 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AutoShop Answers, a leader in automotive service training and innovation, has officially partnered with Rilla, the premier AI-powered speech analytics company, to launch a groundbreaking initiative that is set to redefine the future of the auto repair industry.This historic collaboration integrates Rilla's advanced AI virtual ride-along and conversation analytics technology into the AutoShop Answers coaching platform, delivering a game-changing experience in customer engagement, service advisor training, and operational excellence.Sebastian Jimenez, CEO of Rilla and NYU Stern graduate, brings a unique background — combining business acumen with a fresh approach to coaching drawn from his early stand-up comedy experience — to revolutionize how businesses train, coach, and grow. Rilla's AI captures and analyzes real-time customer interactions, delivering actionable coaching insights hands-free.Todd Hayes, founder of AutoShop Answers and a 30-year veteran of the auto repair industry, emphasized the significance of the launch:"With Rilla's AI, we're not just training — we're transforming. This technology allows us to coach sales calls, audit scripts, and elevate customer service like never before."The partnership officially debuted at AutoShop Answers' sold-out Key to Key to Callbacks Weekend in Houston, Texas — a record-breaking, standing-room-only event filled with innovation, coaching breakthroughs, and more than 80 bursts of applause from an energized national audience.The weekend began with a national online Strategy Saturday, hosted live by AutoShop Answers' Glenn Piccolo. Todd Hayes then took the stage to share defining moments from his career, culminating in the official launch of AutoShop Answers AIX, powered by Rilla. Sebastian Jimenez joined the stage to introduce Rilla's revolutionary capabilities to the automotive sector — ushering in a new high watermark for AI-powered live coaching and customer journey analysis.The excitement continued with a special visit from Sunil Patel, CEO of Tekmetric, celebrating Tekmetric's incredible milestone of reaching 10,000 auto shops nationwide. Congratulations were extended to both Tekmetric and ShopGenie, two of AutoShop Answers' valued program sponsors.The event also celebrated individual achievements, with Lynn Massengill receiving special recognition for surpassing both the $300,000 and $400,000 monthly revenue marks through AutoShop Answers coaching — truly a testament to the impact of training, innovation, and commitment.Today, AutoShop Answers continues its momentum with the unveiling of the SPARR system, an AI-automated presentation platform that further advances their mission to empower service advisors and drive world-class customer service.Next AutoShop Answers Key to Key to Callbacks Program: May 17–18!Seats are already filling fast.Learn more and register at: www.autoshopanswers.comFor more information, visit:rilla.comautoshopanswers.comSOURCE Autoshop Answers

Rillavoice
Nov 27th, 2023
ServiceTitan Official Partnership

NEW YORK - November 27, 2023 - Rillavoice, the leading speech analytics software for the home improvement industry, is partnering with ServiceTitan, a software platform built to power the trades, to bring AI-powered ride-alongs to contractors around the world.

TechCrunch
Dec 1st, 2022
A tool for analyzing face-to-face sales pitches lands funding from UiPath co-founder

In its first year of sales, Rillavoice says it has grown to seven figures of annual recurring revenue and is “cash flow positive."

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Nov 3rd, 2022
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