Business Development Representative (BDR)

Strella HQ (New York City) remote Until 9/21/2026 First posted July 23, 2026 Last posted July 23, 2026
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!

About this role

Summary

Generate pipeline, conduct outreach, build relationships, and support sales growth.

Job title

Business Development Representative (BDR)

Experience level

entry level

Industry

software

Location requirements

Strella HQ in New York City, on-site preferred

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

written communicationverbal communicationCRM

Preferred skills

researchinsight industries

Specializations

outbound prospectingCRMB2B SaaSlead generation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

New York, NY, USA

On-site City