
Business Development Representative
Zapier
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $98,000 - $128,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Generate qualified pipeline for the Sales team
- Research and identify high-quality outbound prospects using product signals, intent data, and persona insights.
- Run early-stage discovery to understand prospect needs and determine fit for Zapier’s upmarket offerings.
- Qualify inbound leads quickly and accurately to ensure smooth handoffs to AEs.
- Success is measured by qualified opportunities sourced and accepted by AEs.
- Educate prospects on Zapier’s value
- Conduct short discovery, education, or “micro-demos” focused on business problems and high-level use cases
- Inspire prospective customers by showcasing relevant automation opportunities and connecting Zapier to their business needs.
- Experiment and optimize prospecting motions
- Partner with Sales Leadership to design and test new outreach sequences, messaging, and persona-based sales plays.
- Leverage AI and automation tools to scale high-quality outreach and improve response rates.
- Build repeatable approaches for engaging product-qualified leads (PQLs) and early-stage expansion opportunities.
- Maintain strong feedback loops across the organization
- Document learnings from discovery conversations and outreach experiments.
- Share insights with Sales, Marketing, Product, and RevOps to strengthen enablement, positioning, and product roadmap decisions.
- Participate in cross-functional projects as we refine our upmarket GTM motion.
Requirements
- 2–3+ years of experience in sales, sales operations, revenue operations, or AI/automation roles
- Experience in SaaS or product-led companies is strongly preferred.
- Thrive in fast-paced, experimental environments—comfortable testing messaging, outreach motions, and new prospecting tactics.
- Technically curious and excited to learn Zapier’s product deeply, including APIs, AI features, and solution-building capabilities.
- Highly organized, self-directed, and able to manage outbound and inbound prospecting with discipline.
- A clear and compelling communicator with the ability to engage a variety of stakeholders, from end-users to executives
- You’ve used AI tools in your work (or are eager to adopt them quickly) and enjoy optimizing workflows with automation.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sales operationsrevenue operationsprospectinglead qualificationdiscovery conversationsoutreach sequencesmessagingautomationsolution-buildingAPIs
Soft skills
organizational skillsself-directedcommunicationstakeholder engagementcuriosityadaptabilitycreativitycollaborationdisciplineproblem-solving