Best Carreer path starting from SDR at a software company.

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AE will be the highest earning potential. Team Lead then Manager route will be more responsibility and coach.

You can go enablement and work on sales processes and training material. Some SDR’s go into customer success or account management based off tenure and experience

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Makes sense AE really is the goal of most in tech sales

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