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A commerce graduate in Gurugram runs an inside-sales desk for an Indian software company. Nine-hour shifts, a headset, a call list, a target. The pay is roughly 4 to 5 lakh rupees a year. Across the same city, someone with the same headset and the same script is doing near-identical work for a US software company, and getting paid in dollars.<\/p>\n
The work barely changes. The prospecting, the emails, the follow-up calls, the CRM updates: all of it looks the same. What changes is who signs the paycheck, and in which currency. That gap is the whole reason remote SDR jobs with US companies are worth chasing from India.<\/p>\n
Most people assume a US sales job needs a US work visa, a US degree, or a “US accent.” It needs none of those. A remote SDR role needs clear, understandable English, the discipline to make a lot of outbound touches, and the willingness to work hours that overlap with the American business day.<\/p>\n
US firms have quietly opened this door. More of them now hire India-based sales development reps directly, either as contractors billing in dollars or through an employer of record, instead of routing everything through a BPO. At any given time, Indian job boards carry dozens of remote SDR listings tied to international companies.<\/p>\n
This article sets out how to land remote SDR jobs with US companies from India: what the role is, what it pays, the tools to learn, how to apply and get paid from India, the timezone tradeoff, and whether AI is about to replace it.<\/p>\n\n\n
Yes, US companies hire remote SDRs from India, usually as USD contractors or through an employer of record. US-domestic SDR roles pay roughly 60,000 dollars base and about 85,000 dollars in on-target earnings; India-based contracts pay less than that but well above local inside-sales pay. You’ll need clear English, one CRM (Salesforce or HubSpot), a sales sequencer such as Outreach, and the willingness to work US-overlap evening hours from India.<\/p>\n\n\n
That’s the short version. The rest works through each piece: the pay figures, the tools that appear in almost every job description, and the hours you’ll keep.<\/p>\n\n