
Business Development Representative
Nylas
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $65,000 - $100,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Execute high-volume outbound prospecting to generate qualified opportunities for the sales team, leveraging phone, email, LinkedIn, and social outreach to engage decision-makers and influencers.
- Consistently achieve or exceed monthly and quarterly quota targets for meetings booked and opportunities created.
- Research target accounts to identify potential needs, align outreach to business priorities, and tailor messaging to resonate with ideal customer profiles (ICPs).
- Qualify prospects through thoughtful discovery, assessing fit, urgency, and readiness, and seamlessly hand off qualified opportunities to Account Executives.
- Partner closely with Account Executives to develop account penetration strategies, ensuring smooth transitions and setting up high-quality sales conversations.
- Use sales enablement tools such as Salesforce, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Gong to manage outreach, track activity, and maintain accurate pipeline records.
- Apply a multi-touch, multi-channel approach to create consistent engagement and build relationships with prospects over time.
- Provide feedback from prospect interactions to Marketing and Sales leadership to refine messaging, targeting, and campaign effectiveness.
Requirements
- 1–2 years of experience in an outbound sales or business development role, preferably within a B2B SaaS environment.
- Proven ability to consistently hit or exceed activity and opportunity generation targets.
- Comfort with high-volume outreach, including making daily cold calls and managing multiple active prospecting cadences.
- Strong research skills to identify key decision-makers, business needs, and strategic opportunities within target accounts.
- Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to craft concise, engaging outreach messages that capture attention.
- Strong listening and discovery skills, with a natural curiosity to uncover challenges and align solutions to business goals.
- High degree of preparation for every prospect interaction, ensuring you set up Account Executives for successful meetings.
- Passion for learning and communicating technical concepts in a simple, compelling way.
- Familiarity with sales productivity tools (e.g., Salesforce, Outreach, Salesloft, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo) and a commitment to keeping data accurate and up to date.
- Persistent and resilient mindset—able to maintain consistent outreach and relationship-building, even in the face of delayed responses or rejection.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
outbound salesbusiness developmentactivity generationprospectingresearch skillsdiscovery skillscommunication skillsrelationship-building
Soft skills
listeningcuriositypreparationpersistenceresilience