Business Development Representative
At a glance
Entry-level Sales Development role at Dust. New York · full-time · $100,000–$145,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Find and qualify new opportunities through focused outreach to scale-ups and enterprise accounts
- Call technical leaders, founders, and decision-makers, then connect their problems to Dust’s value
- Keep prospects engaged until sales-ready and give Account Executives and Solution Engineers useful handoff context
- Test outbound campaigns with Marketing and GTM Engineers, using results to improve conversion
- Use Dust agents to research accounts, prospect, qualify leads, and organize your daily workflow
What you bring
- One to two years in tech sales, or transferable experience showing you can move into tech sales
- Clear English communication for conversations with technical stakeholders; French is a strong advantage
- Evidence of meeting or surpassing targets in a performance-focused role
- Fast learning, strong coachability, and the resilience to handle rejection constructively
Who this fits
You’ll suit a junior sales development role if you take initiative, learn quickly, and own outcomes from first outreach through handoff. The job is based in New York and follows an office-first, in-person setup, with flexibility to work from home when that better supports the day’s work. The role calls for collaboration with Marketing, GTM Engineers, Account Executives, and Solution Engineers.
From the employer
About Dust
Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.
With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.
With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast.
We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.
Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50.
Summary
As a Business Development Representative at Dust, you'll be instrumental in generating the qualified pipeline that fuels our rapid growth. This isn't a typical BDR role: you'll be pioneering AI-native sales development, using Dust's own platform daily to transform how prospecting and qualification work. You'll be joining at a pivotal moment as we scale from 60 to 180 people, working directly with technical leaders and founders at scale-ups and enterprise companies to connect their challenges to Dust's value. This role offers a front-row seat to category creation and a clear path to growth within our GTM organization.
What you'll do
Drive qualified pipeline generation
Identify and qualify new sales opportunities through targeted outreach to scale-ups and enterprise companies
Conduct cold calls and discovery conversations with technical leaders, founders, and decision-makers
Qualify leads by understanding their pain points and connecting business challenges to Dust's value proposition
Own the qualification and handoff process
Nurture prospects until they're sales-ready, providing detailed context to Account Executives and Solution Engineers
Ensure smooth handoffs that convert to high-quality SQLs with clear next steps
Track and manage your pipeline in close partnership with the GTM team
Experiment and optimize the sales motion
Collaborate with Marketing and GTM Engineers to test outbound campaigns and double down on what works
Define target personas and develop prospecting strategies to access key accounts
Use data to refine your approach and continuously improve conversion rates
Be a Dust power user
Use Dust agents daily to prospect, qualify, research accounts, and manage your workflow
Embody "Work AGI" by transforming your own processes and sharing what you learn with the team
Requirements
Every candidate and employee's success is measured against the same 3 dimensions. Aptitude, Attitude and Agency.
Aptitude
1-2 years working in Tech sales, or demonstrated hunger to break into tech sales with relevant transferable skills
Excellent communication skills in English to engage effectively with technical stakeholders; French is a strong plus for European market coverage
You know how to grab attention and adapt your message to different audiences
Strong coachability. You absorb feedback, iterate quickly, and continuously improve your approach
Performance-oriented mindset with a track record of meeting or exceeding targets
Attitude
Team player who thrives in a collaborative, high-growth environment and actively shares knowledge
Self-aware and reflective. You own your results, learn from setbacks, and don't deflect responsibility
Strong ownership mentality. You take pride in your work and care about the impact you create
Ability to handle rejection with resilience and maintain a positive, curious attitude
Natural collaborator who makes the people around them better
Agency
Hustle mentality. You see opportunities and act on them without waiting to be told
Ownership over outcomes, not just tasks, you drive results end-to-end
Resourceful problem-solver who finds ways forward even with limited information
Track record of self-initiated projects or going beyond what was asked
Comfortable making decisions and moving fast in ambiguous, evolving situations
Compensation and Benefits
Competitive compensation: $100k-$145k
Equity package in a Sequoia-backed startup
Health insurance for you and your dependents
Office in the heart of San Francisco
Regular team events and offsites
Location
We're prioritizing building our team with an in-person culture at our offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, and New York because we value the magic that happens when talented people work closely together.
We have an office-first culture. Some of the best things about building at Dust are the energy, the fast decisions, and the unexpected conversations that unlock a hard problem, which happen because we are in the same room. Being together is not a formality, it is how we do our best work, and it is something we actively protect.
That said, we hire people with strong judgement and we extend that trust to how they manage their time. When working from home makes more sense for what you need to get done that day, we trust you to make that call.
Why Dust
The models are powerful enough. What's missing is the product layer where AI meets how companies actually work. That's what we're building: the infrastructure that lets any team turn scattered knowledge and tools into coordinated execution with agents they build, own, and run themselves.
We use Dust ourselves every day. We get to shape how humans and agents collaborate while solving our own problems with the product we ship. That loop is rare, and it's why we move fast.
If you're excited about defining a new category and want to join a determined team of optimists who focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously, we'd love to talk.
Even if you don't check every box in our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We value diverse perspectives and backgrounds, and we're more interested in your potential and passion than a perfect match to our checklist.
Learn how we think and work.
Our product constitution, a story about our mission
Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024
LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024
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