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Business Development Manager

Freshworks

San Mateo, CAFull-time$53–66K/yrPosted 5 days agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$53–66K/yr
Location
San Mateo, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

As a Business Development Representative, the hire drives revenue through strategic outreach and relationship building. The role identifies and contacts prospects, facilitates qualification calls, and creates early-stage pipeline for Freshworks. It is onsite five days per week at the San Mateo office and includes quarterly quota targets. The position is also eligible for variable compensation.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

New Business DevelopmentSalesInterpersonal CommunicationsProblem SolvingCustomer Relationship ManagementAccount ResearchCold CallingAccount QualificationBANTMEDDPICCCommunicationInterpersonal SkillsObjection HandlingSelf-Motivation

Qualifications

1+ Years Business Development, Sales, or Related Experience

Benefits

Dental Insurance
Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Company Description

Organizations everywhere struggle under the crushing costs and complexities of “solutions” that promise to simplify their lives. To create a better experience for their customers and employees. To help them grow. Software is a choice that can make or break a business. Create better or worse experiences. Propel or throttle growth. Business software has become a blocker instead of ways to get work done.

There’s another option. Freshworks. With a fresh vision for how the world works.

At Freshworks, we build uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Our enterprise-grade solutions are powerful, yet easy to use, and quick to deliver results. Our people-first approach to AI eliminates friction, making employees more effective and organizations more productive. Over 72,000 companies, including Bridgestone, New Balance, Nucor, S&P Global, and Sony Music, trust Freshworks’ customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) software to fuel customer loyalty and service efficiency. And, over 4,500 Freshworks employees make this possible, all around the world.

Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

Job Description

As a Business Development Representative with Freshworks, you will play a crucial role in our company’s growth by driving revenue through strategic outreach and relationship building. You will be responsible for identifying and conducting outreach with prospects, facilitating qualification calls, and creating early stage pipeline for Freshworks. Key Responsibilities:

  • Use an intent based approach to prioritize and target accounts, utilizing a myriad of research tools
  • Conduct cold outreach to prospects via a multi-threaded approach including phone, email, and social selling
  • Qualify prospects at all levels, including C-level executives, utilizing BANT and MEDDPICC
  • Manage inbound leads from different sources, qualifying in and out for sales
  • Create qualified opportunities for the sales organization
  • Develop a strong relationship with Account Executives
  • Become the ‘expert’ on the Freshworks product and service offerings and effectively communicate the value of each to prospects
  • Utilize the CRM to accurately record all interactions and activities
  • Meet and exceed quarterly quota targets

Location: This is an onsite role (5x/week) from our San Mateo, CA office location

Qualifications

  • 1-2 years experience in business development, sales, or related role
  • Experience researching, cold-calling, and qualifying accounts
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong-problem solving and objection handling abilities
  • Experience facilitating qualifying conversations with prospects
  • Self-motivated and target-driven with a passion for achieving results

Additional Information

$53,200 - $66,000 Base Salary. This role is also eligible for variable compensation. Freshworks offers multiple options for dental, medical, vision, disability and life insurances. ESPP, flexible PTO, flexible spending, commuter benefits and wellness benefits are also offered. Freshworks also offers adoption and parental leave benefits. At Freshworks, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business. At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us. At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

At Freshworks, we have fostered an environment that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion, welcoming colleagues of all backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities. We are committed to providing equal opportunity and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer environment that boosts the goals of our employees, communities, and business. Fresh vision. Real impact. Come build it with us.

How this job compares

Set against the 20,512 open Business Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$53–66K/yr
  • California median$135–210K/yr2,129 salary ranges
  • US median$123–194K/yr14,450 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $60K, is 66% below the California median midpoint ($176K) — in the lowest quarter of Business Development salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 2,541 open Business Development jobs in California and 20,512 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 16,390 postings).
Education
6,476 of the 20,512 open Business Development jobs (32%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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