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Hire a Business Development Representative

Hire a business development representative without paying $65K+ a year. Get pre-vetted, AI-fluent business development representatives starting at $2.5K per month. We handle sourcing, vetting, payroll, and compliance so you can open the cold accounts you actually want, keep outbound running every single week, and feed your closers a steady calendar of qualified meetings.

Business Development Representative ยท At a Glance
Starting pricefrom $2.5K/mo
Typical local cost$5.5Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Overhead reductionup to 70%
Embedded within30 days
Experience level2โ€“5+ years
โœ“ Skills-tested for the role โœ“ AI-fluency assessed โœ“ Remote Readiness Score

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A Better Way to Hire a Business Development Representative

Outbound is the first thing every team says it will do and the last thing that consistently happens. Your AEs promise to prospect between demos and never do, your dream account list sits untouched, and pipeline rises and falls with the marketing budget. Hiring a local BDR means $65K+ for a role famous for 18-month tenure. Our model closes that gap with a dedicated outbound specialist who prospects every day because it is their entire job.

Every candidate goes through structured skills-based testing, real-world scenario evaluation including writing cold outreach and running scored mock cold calls, and a hands-on AI fluency assessment. When you hire a business development representative through us, they are running sequences in your tools within 30 days, and the employment contract, payroll, and compliance sit with us throughout.

What does a Business Development Representative do?

A business development representative does pure outbound: researching cold accounts, opening conversations that did not exist yesterday, and booking qualified meetings for your closers. Your pipeline stops depending entirely on who happens to find you.

  • Build targeted account and contact lists in Apollo, ZoomInfo, or Clay that match your ideal customer profile, refreshed continuously
  • Run multi-touch outbound sequences across cold calls, email, and LinkedIn, personalized enough to earn replies from cold accounts
  • Book qualified meetings directly onto your account executives' calendars, with context notes so no closer walks in blind
  • Test and iterate messaging weekly, tracking reply and meeting rates to find the angles your market responds to

When is it time to Hire a Business Development Representative?

The trigger moment is usually a pipeline review where every deal traces back to inbound, and the named accounts you want most have never heard from you. Sound close?

Your pipeline is almost entirely inbound and slows the moment marketing spend dips

Your AEs are supposed to prospect but never do, because closing always wins the time battle

You know exactly which 500 accounts you want and nobody is systematically working them

You tried outbound with a blast tool, burned the list, and got nothing but unsubscribes

Ready to Hire a Business Development Representative? Put outbound on autopilot with a human behind it.

Hire a Business Development Representative

When we say the best, we mean it

We only work with the top 5% of candidates when companies hire business development representative through us. Every candidate is skills-tested on the exact work this role does, assessed for AI fluency on real tasks, and scored with our proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful remote hires โ€” before they reach your team.

Researches before touching an account, referencing something true about the company rather than mail-merging a first name

Treats cold calling as a craft to sharpen daily instead of a task to avoid

Gets measured on pipeline created and meetings that hold, never on activity theater

Absorbs ninety rejections a day without letting the ninety-first prospect hear it in their voice

Tested to get in. Trained to stay ahead.

Testing

Three tests, then a human interview

1
Role skills150+ assessments, built for the exact role they'll do for you
2
Remote readinessOur proprietary Remote Readiness Score โ€” built from 1,000+ successful hires
3
AI fluencyReal tasks with a live LLM โ€” prompting, workflows, judgment
4
Interviewed by a real humanTop scorers meet one of our recruiters before you ever see them
Only the top 5% get in See the tests โ†’
NEVER STOPS
Training

Then they keep getting better

Your hirealways in training
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How We Find You Amazing Talent in 30 Days

01

You Specify a Role

You share job description, core requirements & key skills we should screen for.

02

We Source Talent

We run skills-based testing and manual screening, then deliver 3-5 candidates.

03

We Confirm Alignment

We confirm each candidate is interested in your role & aligned with your company.

04

You Interview & Select

You interview each candidate and, if needed, run a 1-2 hour test project.

05

We Handle Onboarding

We handle identity verification, NDA, compliant contracts & full payroll setup.

06

Your Hire Starts Working

Talent is embedded into your team and works like any other team member.

How much does it cost to Hire a Business Development Representative?

Hiring a business development representative locally typically costs $5,500 to $7,500 per month once you factor in salary, benefits, and overhead. With our model, you can reduce that cost by up to 70% while still getting a full-time business development representative working directly inside your prospecting stack and target account list.

Hiring locally
$5.5Kโ€“$7.5K/mo
Salary, benefits, and overhead factored in
Through us
from $2.5K/mo
Employment, contracts, and HR administration handled entirely on our side

We manage the employment contract, payroll, and HR admin, and you get outbound capacity that never pauses for hiring cycles. Prospecting also improves with repetition: message tests accumulate, account knowledge deepens, and reply rates climb. That is why companies hire a business development representative through us instead of restarting outbound from zero every time a local BDR moves on.

Common Questions

How quickly can a business development representative start booking meetings?
Candidates are presented within one to two weeks, and most BDRs are running live sequences within 30 days. First booked meetings typically follow within the first two weeks of outreach.
What experience do they have?
Typically 2 to 5+ years of outbound prospecting for B2B companies, with proven track records of hitting meeting quotas through cold calls, email, and LinkedIn.
Can they make cold calls to my market?
Yes. Every BDR speaks native-level English and is vetted through scored mock cold calls, and they dial during your business hours so prospects pick up at reasonable times.
Will they work in my time zone?
Yes. When you hire a business development representative through us, matching is based on your target market's hours, so calls, follow-ups, and handoff meetings all land in the right window.
What tools do they use?
Apollo, Outreach, Salesloft, ZoomInfo, Clay, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Salesforce or HubSpot are standard. Many also use AI tools for research and personalization at scale.
How do you vet outbound skills?
Candidates write real cold outreach for a sample ICP, complete scored mock cold calls, pass structured skills testing and an AI fluency assessment, and interview for resilience and coachability.
How is this different from a lead generation agency?
Agencies blast shared databases under someone else's playbook and keep the learnings. Your dedicated BDR works only your accounts, iterates with your team weekly, and everything they learn stays with you.

Hire a Business Development Representative today

The accounts you want will not call you first. Hire a business development representative who is vetted, AI-fluent, and prospecting for you every day at a fraction of a local salary.

Hire a Business Development Representative