So I have 2 job offers:
- SDR role at an US-based ETL/ELT company that's Series D. 100K OTE (70:30 base:comms split) with 19K stock options vested over 4 years. There's a 45K cap on comms though. I'll be their first hire in Southeast Asia, a good 70% of this role would be inbound with the remaining 30% doing outbound. I've heard that other SDRs in APAC have consistently hit and exceeded quota. Perks include yearly overseas retreats to awesome countries, good progression and judging from the other regions' SDRs' profiles, a good number of them have been promoted to AE in a year, so the company definitely wasn't lying when they talked about career progression and development. Work is remote, though there's a WeWork office I can go in as and when I want. Tech stack is awesome. Manager is in the US, seems nurturing (has a warm motherly vibe), so my 1:1 meetings + onboarding would be at odd hours because of the different time zones.
- AE role at a European social media monitoring/analytics company, privately held. 110K OTE (40:60 base:comms split) with 320K quota. They've been in Asia for a long time and so there's already a team here that has stayed for a long time. I've heard that most AEs hit their quota. Benefits and tech stack aren't nearly as good as the SDR role in the abovementioned company, but I really like the hiring manager and team here. It's a hybrid working environment and I can go in to the office or work from home, and that's pretty flexible. Onboarding and training seem more structured because they've been here for more than a decade so processes are already up and running.
My thoughts:
I'm getting the top bucks for a SDR role but the low end for an AE role. I feel like if I accept the SDR role, it might take a year for me to progress to an AE, and that would mean I would already have accumulated 1 year of AE experience if I had just taken the AE role at the social media monitoring company. Yet at the same time, I feel like if I accept the AE role, the salary and its base:comms split are not very competitive and I worry I might get 'bored' because the company is definitely not as hyped up as the SDR role in the data/ELT ELT space, and benefits aren't as comprehensive.
1 mini red flag I've seen from the social media monitoring firm is that an AE stayed in that company for 3 years but later moved to a SDR role in a techy space. I'm not sure if it means that being an AE in a social media monitoring space isn't exactly transferrable if I want to hop to a more techy data space in the future, and if that's so, should I just accept the SDR role in the ETL/ELT space?
What are your thoughts on the data/ETL ELT space and social media monitoring space and their ideal customer profiles? Is it overly saturated? Which field has more growth in the long run?
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