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Business Development Representative (BDR)

Strella

New York City, NY · HybridJobPosted 3mo agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Location
New York City, NYHybrid
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Job overview

Strella, an AI‑powered platform for qualitative research, seeks a Business Development Representative to generate pipeline, expand market reach, and improve sales processes. The role involves outbound prospecting, meeting booking, research, conference representation, CRM maintenance, cross‑functional collaboration, and experimenting with AI tools to drive efficiency.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer Facing RolesArtificial IntelligenceSales SupportServiceSDREarly-StageLinkedInBusiness DevelopmentVoter Targeting/OutreachQualitative ResearchTeam LeadershipConsumer InsightProduct MarketingInterviewsOutbound OutreachEmailCallsEventsCRMAI ToolsResearchCommunicationBusiness AcumenWritingVerbal CommunicationProspectingSales PlaybooksData ReportingCross‑Functional Collaboration

Full job description

About Strella Strella is an AI-powered platform revolutionizing qualitative research with real-time, AI-moderated interviews and automated synthesis. We’re a fast-growing, venture-backed startup working with leading teams in product, marketing, investing, and consumer insights. We’re scaling quickly and looking for a driven Business Development Representative (BDR) to fuel our next stage of growth.

What You’ll Do

Generate Pipeline & Meetings

  • Meet or exceed monthly prospecting quotas through targeted outbound outreach (email, LinkedIn, calls, events, and other channels).

  • Book meetings and build early-stage pipeline for Account Executives.

  • Develop and test creative initiatives to generate meetings and pipeline

Expand Strella’s Market Reach

  • Research and engage ideal customer profiles across product, UX, insights, and strategy functions.

  • Represent Strella at conferences and tradeshows, driving net-new opportunities.

Improve Sales Process & GTM Execution

  • Maintain clean, accurate CRM data and reporting.

  • Partner cross-functionally with marketing, product, and customer success to refine messaging, share prospect insights, and help shape our go-to-market strategy.

  • Contribute to internal projects improving sales playbooks, prospecting efficiency, and tools.

  • Proactively seek and experiment with new AI tools and workflows to drive efficiency in your day-to-day took

Who You Are:

High Impact Attributes

  • Hungry: Strong will to win; track record of exceeding goals and doing what it takes for the team.

  • Humble: Self-aware, team-first, open to feedback, and authentic in how you show up.

  • Smart: Excellent writing and verbal communication, curiosity, and business acumen.

  • Coachable: Takes feedback and applies it quickly; eager to learn and improve.

  • Growth Mindset: Invests in personal development and takes initiative to upskill and master sales.

  • Explorative: Eager to try and test new approaches, channels and tools to find the best way of doing things

Experience

  • Thrives in high-pressure or fast-paced environments, early-stage startup experience a plus.

  • Has worked with minimal oversight and shown strong ownership.

  • Prior customer-facing role (sales, support, retail, service) or BDR/SDR experience is a plus.

  • Bonus: familiarity with research or insight-driven industries

Why Join Strella

  • Opportunity to help define and scale the outbound sales engine at a fast-growing startup, and massive opportunity for growth.

  • Work directly with founders and GTM leaders; your impact will be visible and measurable.

  • Learn cutting-edge B2B SaaS sales skills in a culture of curiosity, speed, and ownership.

  • Competitive compensation with meaningful equity, benefits, and career growth potential.

If you’re ambitious, curious, and ready to hustle to help build a category-defining company, we’d love to meet you!

How this job compares

Set against the 20,070 open Business Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • New York median$130–189K/yr1,272 salary ranges
  • New York median$25–35/hr46 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,759 open Business Development jobs in New York and 20,070 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (15,827 postings).
Education
7,186 of the 20,070 open Business Development jobs (36%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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