Junior Business Development Representative (BDR)
Location: Remote (Hybrid/On-site if located in New York)
Experience: Fresh Graduates (0–1 year)
Education: Undergraduate degree from a reputed university or college
Reporting To: VP of Sales
Compensation:
$60,000 base salary | $80,000 OTE (Competitive base + variable)
Variable compensation tied to qualified meetings and pipeline contribution.
About the Role
Are you a recent graduate looking to kick-start your career in SaaS sales and Artificial Intelligence?
Meera AI is looking for ambitious, curious, and driven graduates who want to build a career in technology sales. As a Junior Business Development Representative (BDR), you'll be part of our early sales team and work directly with experienced sales leaders to learn modern outbound sales, customer engagement, and pipeline generation.
No prior BDR experience is required: we're looking for individuals with strong communication skills, a willingness to learn, resilience, and the motivation to grow into future Account Executives. If you're someone who is looking to get into tech sales and thrives in a fast-paced startup environment, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Learn & Do
As a Junior BDR, you'll receive hands-on coaching while learning how to:
- Identify and research prospective customers with tools like Clay & Apollo
- Execute outbound sales through email, phone, LinkedIn, and other channels
- Book qualified meetings for our VP of Sales and the Account Executive team
- Learn how to understand customer challenges and communicate business value
- Personalize outreach based on different industries and customer needs
- Learn modern sales methodologies and qualification frameworks
- Maintain accurate records in CRM platforms such as HubSpot
- Work closely with experienced sales leaders and receive ongoing mentorship
- Continuously improve messaging based on feedback and real customer conversations
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for recent graduates who are:
- Graduates from a reputed university or college
- Excellent communicators with strong written and verbal English skills
- Curious, proactive, and eager to learn
- Comfortable speaking with new people and building relationships
- Resilient and motivated by challenges
- Highly coachable and open to feedback
- Organized with strong attention to detail
- Passionate about technology, AI, and startups
- Interested in building a long-term career in B2B Sales
Preferred Qualifications
The following are a plus:
- Internship or campus experience in sales, business development in customer-facing roles
- Leadership experience through student organizations, clubs, entrepreneurship, or competitions
- Familiarity with CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce etc.)
- Exposure to LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, Clay
- Interest in AI, SaaS, or enterprise technology
- Competitive achievements in academics, sports, or extracurricular activities
Career Growth
This role is designed as the first step toward a long-term sales career.
Top performers will receive:
- Direct mentorship from the VP of Sales
- Structured sales training
- Exposure to enterprise customers
- Opportunities to work alongside experienced Account Executives
- A clear career path into an Account Executive (AE) role as the company grows
Interview Process
- Round 1: Cultural fit with HR
- Round 2: Technical interview with VP of Sales
- Round 3: Final interview with CEO and/or COO
Why Join Meera AI?
Joining Meera AI means becoming part of a fast-growing AI startup where you'll gain real-world experience from day one.
You'll have the opportunity to:
- Learn directly from experienced sales leaders
- Work with cutting-edge AI technology
- Help shape the future of outbound sales
- Build valuable enterprise sales skills
- Accelerate your professional growth in a high-impact environment
- Be part of a collaborative, ownership-driven culture
About Meera AI
Meera AI is an AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps businesses automate conversations and accelerate revenue growth through AI-driven SMS, voice, WhatsApp, and CRM integrations.
We're building the future of customer engagement by helping businesses create smarter, more meaningful customer interactions at scale.
Work-Life Balance
We believe great work comes from empowered people.
At Meera AI, you'll benefit from:
- Flexible remote work (with hybrid opportunities for New York-based employees)
- Open-door leadership
- Collaborative learning environment
- Continuous mentorship and career development
- A culture that values growth, transparency, and innovation
Our Culture & Values
Curiosity
We continuously learn, question, and explore better ways to solve problems.
Trust
We build trust through honesty, accountability, and integrity.
Empathy
We put people first and create technology that genuinely helps customers succeed.
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree from a reputed university or college
- Fresh graduate with 0-1 year of experience
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills; comfortable speaking with new people
- Curious, proactive, coachable, and eager to learn
- Resilience and motivation to handle rejection and challenges
- Organized with strong attention to detail
- Passion for technology, AI, and startups
- Interest in building a long-term career in B2B sales
- Internship or campus experience in sales or customer-facing roles
- Leadership experience in student organizations, clubs, or entrepreneurship
- Familiarity with CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce)
- Exposure to LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Apollo, Clay
- Interest in AI, SaaS, or enterprise technology
- Competitive achievements in academics, sports, or extracurriculars
What We Do
Mantra is the parent company behind Meera.ai, an AI-powered texting platform that helps sales and admissions teams reach leads faster, qualify them with human-like conversations, and drive more conversions. In addition to building Meera, Mantra previously operated Legal Growth Marketing—a performance-based lead generation company—which was recently acquired by a major media and technology group backed by one of the world’s largest private equity firms.
