Job description
About Aspire
Aspire.io is the world’s first word-of-mouth commerce platform that leverages your brand’s ambassadors, influencers, affiliates, customers, user-generated content, and social ads to accelerate marketing results across paid, owned, and earned channels. Since 2014, Aspire’s industry-leading software platform, combined with our award-winning Agency Services team, has served household names such as M&Ms, Keurig, Samsung, HelloFresh, Dyson, and many other high-growth ecommerce companies while paying out $100M to creators around the world.
The Role
We’re looking for a sharp, resourceful, and outbound-obsessed Business Development Representative to help fuel Aspire’s growth engine. This role is all about creating pipeline, identifying high-potential accounts, breaking into them with strategic outreach, and generating qualified opportunities for our sales team.
As a BDR, you’ll partner closely with Sales and Revenue leadership to refine outbound strategies, test new messaging, and ensure Aspire is in the room with the right decision-makers. This is a high-impact, foundational role with clear performance metrics and a structured path to grow into an Account Executive position, based on strong performance and business needs.
What You’ll Be Working On:
- Outbound Prospecting: Research and identify high-fit DTC and B2C brands and agencies that align with our ICP. Build and maintain a robust top-of-funnel pipeline.
- Cold Outreach Execution: Launch and iterate on targeted outbound campaigns across email, LinkedIn, and phone, to create conversations and book qualified meetings for AEs.
- Discovery and Qualification: Lead initial discovery calls where needed to assess fit, understand brand goals, and set up AEs with context and momentum.
- Account Strategy: Collaborate with leadership to prioritize target account lists and refine messaging frameworks that speak to brand pain points and market dynamics.
- Continuous Optimization: Work closely with Sales and Marketing to analyze response rates, meeting conversion, and win data to optimize outbound tactics.
- Sales Skill Development: Sharpen your sales acumen through regular coaching, shadowing, and structured feedback with a clear roadmap to promotion.
What We’re Looking For:
- Outbound Drive: You’re hungry to book meetings and break into accounts that matter. You see cold outreach as a game worth mastering.
- Execution-Oriented: You’re disciplined with your time, methodical in your workflow, and relentless in your follow-up.
- Sales Potential: Whether you’re just starting out or have some experience, you’re aiming for a quota-carrying role and ready to learn fast.
- Resilience & Grit: Rejection doesn’t faze you. You see “no” as a step toward “yes.”
- Curious & Coachable: You’re eager to improve and take feedback as a gift. You ask smart questions, and you apply what you learn quickly.
- Bonus Points: Prior exposure to SaaS, eCommerce, or marketing technology sales. Experience running outbound campaigns, even informally.
Why This Role Matters:
Outbound is the lifeblood of our sales team. As a BDR, your impact is measurable and immediate—you’ll be the one opening the doors that drive revenue, build pipeline, and shape the future of our go-to-market strategy.
Work-Life Balance
- Comprehensive Benefits – Full health, dental, and vision insurance to keep you covered.
- Remote Work Flexibility – Thrive in a high-energy, high-performing team—all from the comfort of your home. We provide support for your internet and home office setup.
- 401(k) Plan – Save for your future with our competitive 401(k) retirement savings plan.
- Flexible PTO – Recharge and take time off whenever you need with our flexible paid time off policy.
- Paid Parental Leave – Four months of fully paid leave for new moms and dads—one of the best policies in the industry.
- Ongoing Training & Development – We invest in your growth with customized training, coaching, and career acceleration opportunities—while building clearer, more defined career paths. Plus, take advantage of our annual education stipend to keep learning on your terms.
- End-of-Year Break – We typically close between Christmas and New Year’s to give everyone time to unplug and recharge. Availability may vary by team based on workload and customer support needs.
Equal Opportunity & Our Commitment to Diversity
Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.
The base salary for this role is between $50,000 - $60,000. This role is non-exempt and eligible for commission with the salary band.
- Please note: The final offer amount will depend on factors like experience, expertise, and location, and may differ from the range above. This range also excludes additional benefits, such as equity, 401(k), and medical, dental, or vision insurance.
Our compensation philosophy: we use a market-based approach to compensation. This means we use a series of compensation tools to help us understand how companies value this role in the U.S. market based on function, level, geographic location, and positions benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. To comply with local legislation and provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location and candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above. We have competitive pay bands for all other countries based on market standards.
