Nium

Business Development Representative (BDR)

Posted 9 Days Ago

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Singapore

In-Office

Entry level

Blockchain • Fintech • Payments • Cryptocurrency

The Role

The Business Development Representative will create sales strategies, qualify leads, and manage early-stage sales funnel activities to drive business growth.

Summary Generated by Built In

Nium is the global infrastructure company powering real-time cross-border payments. Founded to deliver the payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today, we are building a programmable, borderless, and compliant money-movement layer that powers transactions between people, businesses, and intelligent systems — enabling banks, fintechs, payroll providers, travel platforms, marketplaces, and other global enterprises to move money instantly, anywhere in the world.

Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with offices in 14 markets and team members across 20+ countries, we take pride in a culture anchored in Keeping It Simple, Making It Better, and Winning Together. 2025 was the strongest year in our 10-year history, with record revenue, record transaction volumes, and EBITDA profitability — and we are now entering one of the most dynamic chapters in our journey. We believe the best work happens face-to-face, and we operate a hybrid model with three in-office days per week to strengthen collaboration, alignment, and innovation.

We move over $50B annually across a network that spans 190+ countries, 100 currencies, and 100 real-time corridors. We power fast payouts to accounts, wallets, and cards; enable local collections in 35 markets; and support card issuance in 34 countries — all backed by licenses across 40+ markets.

With over $300M raised to date, Nium offers ambitious builders the opportunity to shape the future of global money movement — at scale.

As a Business Development Representative (BDR) at Nium, you will help drive Nium’s future growth engine by working closely with the Account Executive (AE) team to qualify leads and collaboratively build a strong sales pipeline. You enjoy engaging with prospects to understand their needs, identifying high-value opportunities, and managing early-stage sales funnel activities.

You are curious and eager to learn about new and existing products, and you take pride in being a builder—actively contributing to the development of demand generation and sales processes, articulating Nium’s value proposition, and creating key sales tools and assets.

We are building a data-driven, analytical approach to sales development and are looking for someone confident in both prospecting and helping design scalable sales strategies. If you are hungry, smart, tenacious, and a great team player, we want to hear from you.

In this role, you will spend significant time understanding new clients, acquiring and qualifying new leads, analyzing key clients’ businesses and performance, and collaborating with management and cross-functional teams to apply best practices and deliver consistently high-quality sales execution.

Responsibilities

Research and create personalized outreach materials for high-value prospects in partnership with BDRs and Account Executives
Follow up on marketing-generated leads to qualify them as sales opportunities and move strong leads through the funnel
Connect qualified prospects with Account Executives and arrange introductory meetings
Execute outbound sales plays created by Marketing
Initiate contact with potential customers through cold calling and responses to inbound inquiries
Develop relationships with prospects to uncover needs through effective questioning and qualification
Prepare high-quality handoffs to the sales team
Follow up with prospects who expressed interest but did not initially convert into sales opportunities
Work through lead lists efficiently while meeting or exceeding SLAs
Consistently update activity, notes, and contact information within the CRM system
Support weekly reporting and pipeline review efforts
Collaborate with Marketing by providing feedback and insights to improve targeting, messaging, and campaigns
Demonstrate a strong drive to exceed past performance, consistently beating targets for lead generation and meeting setup
Apply consultative selling and business development skills to meet or exceed assigned financial and customer satisfaction goals

Requirements

Proven track record of top performance or prior success in sales, business development, or a related role
Superior verbal and written communication skills
Highly self-motivated, with the ability to work independently and as part of a global team
Commercially focused and pragmatic, with the ability to identify opportunities and propose effective solutions
Results-oriented and client-focused, with a strong obsession for delivering value

At Nium, we value an entrepreneurial mindset, tenacity, and passion. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience does not perfectly match every requirement. We believe skills, attitude, and drive can set you apart.

What we offer at Nium

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!

We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.

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The Company

713 Employees

Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication.

Nium’s key solutions:
• Pay-ins
• Pay-outs
• Card issuance
• Banking-as-a-service
• Crypto-as-a-service

We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement
• Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service
• $280M Funding
• Series D
• $2B Valuation
o 130+M End customers
o 190+ Payout markets
o 100+ Supported currencies
• Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List
• Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021
• Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival
• Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards

Why Work With Us

We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together".
These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.