diff --git a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
index aaff8d4389..0c3598e32f 100644
--- a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ All notable changes to experimental packages in this project will be documented
 ### :bug: (Bug Fix)
 
 * fix(exporter-logs-otlp-http): add @opentelemetry/api-logs as dependency
+* fix(sdk-node): remove explicit dependency on @opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger.
 
 ## 0.41.2
 
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
index 2e09308958..b5086b8668 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/README.md
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Before any other module in your application is loaded, you must initialize the S
 If you fail to initialize the SDK or initialize it too late, no-op implementations will be provided to any library which acquires a tracer or meter from the API.
 
 This example uses Jaeger and Prometheus, but exporters exist for [other tracing backends][other-tracing-backends].
+As shown in the installation instructions, exporters passed to the SDK must be installed alongside `@opentelemetry/sdk-node`.
 
 ```javascript
 const opentelemetry = require("@opentelemetry/sdk-node");
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/package.json b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/package.json
index 40b3ac0201..70a423c79a 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/package.json
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-sdk-node/package.json
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
   "devDependencies": {
     "@opentelemetry/api": "1.6.0",
     "@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks": "1.17.0",
+    "@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger": "1.17.0",
     "@types/mocha": "10.0.1",
     "@types/node": "18.6.5",
     "@types/semver": "7.5.1",