Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elly is a VC backed modern recruiting partner that helps growing companies hire exceptional talent. They are seeking an ambitious Business Development Representative (BDR) to generate new business opportunities through high-volume outbound prospecting and engage with decision makers to introduce Elly's recruiting solutions.
Responsibilities
- Generate qualified meetings through outbound prospecting, including cold calling, email, LinkedIn outreach, and other creative channels
- Make a high volume of daily outbound calls to founders, executives, and talent leaders
- Identify companies with active hiring needs and research decision makers within target accounts
- Build and execute personalized outreach campaigns that drive engagement and meetings
- Qualify prospects by understanding hiring plans, growth goals, recruiting challenges, and urgency
- Schedule meetings for leadership and ensure smooth handoffs with complete account context
- Maintain accurate activity tracking and pipeline management within the CRM
- Partner with leadership to refine messaging, targeting, and outbound strategy
- Consistently exceed activity, meeting generation, and pipeline creation goals
Skills
- 1-3 years of experience in sales, business development, recruiting, staffing, or another highly outbound customer-facing role
- Strong phone presence and confidence initiating conversations with senior decision makers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Resilience and persistence when facing rejection
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work independently and maintain high levels of activity
- A competitive mindset and desire to exceed goals
- Genuine curiosity about businesses, hiring, and growth
- Experience in recruiting, staffing, executive search, or talent acquisition
- Experience selling HR, recruiting, or professional services
- Experience using HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Clay, or similar tools
- Experience working in startup or high-growth environments
- Familiarity with AI, automation, and modern go-to-market tools
Benefits
- Competitive base salary plus uncapped commission.
- Direct access to company leadership and mentorship.
- Opportunity to help shape and build the outbound sales function.
- Clear growth path into Account Executive, Client Partner, or leadership roles.
- Exposure to startups, founders, and some of the fastest-growing companies in the market.
- A collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where your work has a direct impact on company growth.
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