The Role
Outbound-focused BDR responsible for prospecting target accounts, executing hyper-personalized omnichannel outreach (email, LinkedIn, phone), qualifying leads, and booking meetings. Use account intelligence tools and HubSpot to prioritize high-intent accounts, hit outreach and pipeline KPIs, and collaborate with sales and marketing to refine messaging and convert enterprise prospects.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Zappi, the BDR team sits within the Sales organisation and plays a key role in driving pipeline and revenue growth. We partner closely with some of the world’s leading B2C brands to help them make faster, better decisions across marketing, advertising, and innovation.
We’re a high-energy, commercially minded team that thrives on building strong relationships and opening doors with new customers. Our prospects often go on to become long-term partners who value our expertise, champion our platform, and collaborate closely with us throughout their journey.
Our dynamic and supportive team values collaboration, creativity, and individual success. We thrive on friendly competition, celebrating wins together while continuously challenging each other to grow
About the role:
As a key member of our Business Development team, you will report to our Director of Outbound Sales and contribute directly to our company’s growth strategy. In this role, you’ll focus on identifying high-potential customers, generating new business, and executing hyper-personalized outreach campaigns to create pipeline opportunities. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including sales and customer success, you’ll play an essential role in driving Zappi’s revenue growth and supporting our 2025 strategy.
What you'll be doing:
- Generate new business opportunities by proactively prospecting target accounts and leveraging your tech stack for effective event-based, trigger-based, and category-specific outreach. Aim for 100+ outreach actions per day across phone, LinkedIn, and email to consistently meet performance targets.
- Nurture inbound leads by engaging with prospects in a timely and strategic manner, ensuring a seamless transition from interest to meeting. Utilize your tech stack to prioritize and follow up efficiently, maximizing conversion rates.
- Develop and execute innovative outreach campaigns that align with Zappi's narrative, incorporating educational, valuable content/offers, and targeting the most relevant personas such as CMOs, VPs of Insights, and other key decision-makers within Fortune 500 accounts.
- Qualify and engage leads based on defined criteria, scheduling meetings for follow-up discovery with the sales team to further assess potential partnerships and customer needs.
- Use outbound selling best practices to uncover customer pain points, articulate the value of Zappi's solutions, and position our platform as a disruptive force in the space.
- Leverage account intelligence tools (e.g., 6Sense, Vendelux, UserGems, Sales Navigator) to prioritize high-intent accounts and design tailored engagement strategies to maximize pipeline generation and lead conversion.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including sales and marketing, to align outreach efforts, share insights from your campaigns, and optimize outreach strategies. Regularly participate in strategy discussions to refine messaging and target accounts.
- Achieve or exceed performance metrics, including monthly/quarterly targets and KPIs related to lead generation, outreach volume, and meeting conversion rates.
- Stay current on industry trends, competitor activities, and Zappi’s evolving product offerings, using this knowledge to refine outreach strategies and stay ahead of the competition.
- Focus on hyper-personalized outreach using a variety of channels, from email to phone calls, ensuring all interactions are tailored to the unique needs of each prospect
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- A minimum of 1 years of experience in Business Development, Inside Sales, or related roles, with a proven track record of creating new logo pipeline in Enterprise environments. Experience managing large, complex accounts is a plus.
- Proven ability to design and execute omnichannel outreach campaigns, with an understanding of how to craft messages that resonate with executive personas and decision-makers in target industries.
- Advanced communication skills, with demonstrated success in crafting personalized emails, effective cold calling, and LinkedIn outreach that speaks to executive-level prospects and articulates value clearly.
- Familiarity with HubSpot Sales Hub, particularly for managing outbound workflows, prospecting dashboards, and sequence management, or a strong willingness to learn and adapt to new tools.
- Experience leveraging tools like 6Sense, UserGems, Sales Navigator, Vendelux to drive targeted outreach and engagement decisions. Ability to quickly adopt new sales tools and technologies.
- Results-driven and goal-oriented, with a passion for meeting or exceeding performance targets in a metric-driven environment. You thrive on the challenge of meeting KPIs and contributing to team success.
- Appreciation for a collaborative, creative team environment, with a growth mindset and a willingness to embrace new challenges. Ability to adapt to changing priorities and approaches based on feedback and market trends.
Benefits
- Unlimited holidays – we want well rested and motivated teams so encourage people to take plenty of time off. We don’t cap your allowance, but do set a minimum of at least 20 days per year plus national holidays
- One company-paid mental health day of rest every quarter (these are pre-scheduled, so the entire company can take the same days off regularly to reset)
- Flexible working arrangements, including remote (unless otherwise specified)
- Thoughtfully designed offices to support both individual work and collaboration without interrupting others
- Support setting up your home office, if appropriate
- Wellbeing benefits and access to trained therapists / counsellors
- Company paid Life, AD&D, Short term & Long term disability
- Immediate access to Zappi's Health, Dental and Vision Insurance Plan
- Option to enter Zappi's 401k program after 90 days of employment, matched up to 4%
- Tailored personal development through training allowances, coaching, mentorship and career frameworks
Why join us?
We’ve been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk’s Media for our engaging and inclusive workplace culture. We’re committed to both people and the planet.
Our belief in inclusion means we’re building an organisation of diverse individuals and helping brands eliminate cultural presumptions in their research. Read our Diversity Manifesto here.
We are a values and behaviours driven business and believe that Trust, Truth, Ownership, Ambition and Humility describe Zappi employees on our best day. This is how we strive to show up for our customers, for each other and for our communities.
Earning B Corp certification assures us we’re on the right track and have structures in place to become the business we want to be.
Our commitment to minimise our impact on the environment means being honest with ourselves and transparent with you—about everything from carbon emissions to tree-planting initiatives. We achieved our goal of becoming Net Zero in 2021!
Zappi Company Culture Highlights
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Women 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Work-Life Balance 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Compensation 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO for Women 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company for Diversity 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Culture 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEO 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Happiness 2022
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Leadership Teams 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best CEOs for Diversity 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Engineering Teams 2023
- Winner of Comparably's Award for Best Company Outlook 2023
- Winner of Newsweek’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK 2022 & 2023
- Recognised by Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023
- Winner of Best Marketing Insights Platform in the MarTech Breakthrough Awards 2023 & 2024
Equal Opportunity
Zappi is an equal opportunity employer; our diversity is a major strength. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws.
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce fosters innovation, creativity, and success. Our hiring decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, and abilities, ensuring fairness and equity throughout our recruitment process. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. Join our team and contribute to an inclusive environment where everyone's unique perspectives and talents are valued and respected.
About
Zappi is a leading consumer insights platform that helps brands win with consumers. Through AI-powered software that delivers connected insights, Zappi enables teams to make faster, smarter, consumer-driven decisions by leveraging real-time, continuous feedback.Trusted by more than 350 brands worldwide, Zappi helps create successful products, develop impactful ads, and build winning brands by keeping the voice of the consumer at the heart of every decision.Named the Best Marketing Insights Platform by the MarTech Breakthrough Awards in both 2023 and 2024, recognized by Business Insider as one of the hottest martech companies, and winner of the MRS Best Technology Innovation Award 2025, Zappi is redefining how modern teams use insights to drive growth.As a certified B-Corp, Zappi is committed to net-zero emissions, fostering an equitable workplace, and using technology to benefit the communities the company serves. With more than 300 employees across 13+ countries and offices in Boston, London, and Cape Town, Zappi’s culture has been celebrated by Fast Company, Comparably, Quirks, Great Place to Work, and more.
Skills Required
- Minimum 1 year experience in Business Development, Inside Sales, or related roles
- Proven ability to design and execute omnichannel outreach campaigns targeting executive personas
- Advanced communication skills including cold calling, personalized email, and LinkedIn outreach
- Familiarity with HubSpot Sales Hub (or strong willingness to learn)
- Experience leveraging tools like 6Sense, UserGems, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Vendelux
- Ability to sustain high outreach volume (target ~100+ outreach actions per day) and meet KPI targets
- Results-driven, metric-oriented mindset with goal attainment focus
- Experience managing large, complex accounts (nice to have)
Zappi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zappi and has not been reviewed or approved by Zappi.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is positioned as competitive overall, reinforced by recognition for compensation and repeated signals of above-average pay satisfaction. Compensation is also described as “more than fair” and, in some cases, at the higher end of market comparisons.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as generous, with an uncapped/unlimited approach and an explicit minimum floor referenced in some descriptions. Company-paid mental health days further expand paid time away from work.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive in multiple geographies, including medical, dental, vision, and additional protections such as life and disability coverage. UK-oriented descriptions add private medical coverage elements and related protections such as income protection.
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The Company
What We Do
We are a leading consumer insights enterprise platform designed for creators. If you're part of a team that creates brands, ads or innovative new products, then we think you're a creator. Our platform provides access to actionable, quick and smart insights to amplify creative effectiveness and shape winning innovation, empowering creators with the agility and the data they need to make better decisions about the ads and innovation they take to market. Through working with some of the biggest brands in the world, we’ve built technology that lets you see your product innovations and advertising ideas through your consumers’ eyes so you can iterate, optimize, validate and learn — increasing your chances of in-market success. Zappi has been recognized as one of the hottest martech companies in 2022 by Business Insider and named Best Place to Work by Quirk’s Media for its engaging and inclusive workplace culture. With offices in Boston, London and Cape Town, we are a hybrid company where career growth is equitable for everyone, whether you do your best work fully remotely, from an office, or a mix of the two. Inspire your ideas and validate your creations so you can create work that people love — work that works. To find out more, visit https://www.zappi.io/web.
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