Nylas

Business Development Representative

Nylas

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New YorkUnited 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