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Sales development seat
Sales development seat is an outbound or inbound qualifying seat. Hours usually need overlap with prospects, which may mean NSD if prospects are U.S. afternoon.
How it works
This is where PE risk also sneaks in if they bind contracts. Keep them as qualifiers unless tax counsel says otherwise. Mexico is the same-hour alternative 701am otherwise sells; this glossary stays on PH and therefore on the hour problem. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.
Example: SDR 6 p.m.-2 a.m. PHT to catch Pacific afternoon. Budget NSD on four hours. Do not pay a dayside rate.
How it differs
Recruiter/sourcer is hiring. Customer support is after the sale. Permanent establishment risk is the tax neighbor.
Common errors
Letting them sign discounts in your name with no opinion letter.
In practice
Treat Sales development seat as a week-one operating object. Restate the week-four outcome in one sentence. If you cannot, the role is still a pile of leftover tasks. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have sales development seat yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.