Business Development Specialist (BDR)

App Samurai; Turkey; Remote; TRY 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Self development budget

Remote work environment

Technology budget for home setup

Career growth in SaaS ecosystem

Supportive marketing team

Networking opportunities

Private health insurance

Job summary

App Samurai in Türkiye seeks a Business Development Specialist to join our sales team and generate new sales leads for a global client base. You will prospect, qualify, and hand opportunities to account executives while collaborating with marketing and sales.

You will gain exposure to Storyly’s AI-powered content platform, develop outbound strategies, and build an international network in a fast-growing startup environment. Strong English and analytical skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Curious about technology and mobile tech industry.
• Enthusiastic about SaaS sales and lead generation.
• Understanding of email marketing strategies and best practices.
• Familiar with platforms like HubSpot, Apollo, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Reply.io.
• Enj oying collaboration with a digital marketing team.
• International career goal and self-development focus.
• Up-to-date with technology and terminology.
• Excellent in English grammar and spelling.
• Methodical, analytical approach to scaling tasks.
• Independent with minimal supervision.
• Strong MS Excel/Google Sheets skills.
• Dynamic startup mindset with proactive attitude.
• 2+ years experience or recent graduate in Business/Sales/Marketing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Research target accounts, start conversations by email, LinkedIn, and phone, and hand qualified opportunities to account executives.
• Use email or other channels to generate and qualify sales leads/opportunities.
• Conduct searches and queries to research, qualify, and generate leads.
• Execute defined strategy by driving key demand generation initiatives.
• Rapid adaptation to related Lead Generation Tools.
• Preparing and analyzing sales pipeline reports.
• Work directly with Marketing, Business Development, and Sales Directors.
• Conduct repeated discovery conversations and refine your pitch.
• Build and improve automations behind outbound (enrichment, sequencing, CRM hygiene).
• Learn how Storyly integrates (SDK and web) to answer first-level technical questions.
• Document what works to accelerate ramp for new BDRs.

Skills

Email marketing

Lead generation

Sales prospecting

HubSpot

Apollo

CRM hygiene

English proficiency

Excel/Google Sheets

Analytical mindset

Independent work

Team collaboration

Tools

HubSpot

Apollo

Claude Code

ChatGPT

Reply.io

Job description

Location: Türkiye

This is a great role at the intersection of marketing and sales to start a career in fast-growing international startups.

We are looking for a Business Development Specialist who will be part of the sales team and be responsible for prospecting, qualifying, and generating new sales leads to support the global sales team.

The business development team consists of people who are enthusiastic about finding various strategies to reach relevant customers, come up with new ideas to explain the benefits of AppSamurai's products, and connect them with the sales team.

As a business development specialist, you'll be able to build your industry network, understand how technology products are marketed and sold, and be part of an international team where you can quickly see the results of your efforts.

Career Path

This role's career path can evolve into a sales career, pre-sales engineering career, digital marketing career, or a career in customer success operations. The best part is AppSamurai offers these career paths based on your ambitions.

Storyly, built by AppSamurai, is an AI-powered content experience platform. Brands use it to add interactive, mobile-native formats (stories, video feeds, swipe cards, canvases) to their apps and websites, personalize them with AI, and tie them to goals like conversion and retention. We work with eCommerce, finance, and betting companies internationally. Integration is a one-time SDK install; after that, marketing and product teams run everything without code.

You can also use the nonintrusive power of storytelling in your monetization design. Only on Storyly, natively (iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native). Once the SDK is integrated, everything else can be done by marketing, CRM, or product teams without code. #nocode

Please visit storyly.io to learn more about us and our products.

Who You Are:

• You are curious about technology and the mobile technology industry

• You are enthusiastic about building a career in SaaS sales and lead generation

• You have an understanding of email marketing strategies and best practices

• You are familiar with platforms like HubSpot, Apollo, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Reply.io

• You enjoy working together with a dedicated team of digital marketers

• You have an international career goal and you are willing to develop yourself

• You keep yourself up to date with technology and technical terms

• You are very proficient in English and know how to use grammar and spell-check tools

• You have a methodical and analytical approach to scaling up the right tasks

• You make an effort to operate independently with minimal supervision

• You are really really good at spreadsheets like MS Excel and Google Sheets

• You enjoy a dynamic, high energy startup and take a proactive approach

• It is a plus if you have 2 or more years of ongoing experience in the related fields, or you are a recent graduate in Business, Sales or Marketing related departments

What You Will Do:

• Research target accounts, start conversations by email, LinkedIn, and phone, and hand qualified opportunities to account executives.

• Use email or other channels to generate and qualify sales leads/opportunities

• Conducting searches and queries to research, qualify, and generate leads

• Execute defined strategy by driving key demand generation initiatives

• Rapid adaptation to related Lead Generation Tools

• Preparing and analyzing sales pipeline reports

• Working directly with Marketing, Business Development, and Sales Directors

• Have the same discovery conversation many times a week and improve your pitch from what you hear.

• Build and improve the automations behind outbound (enrichment, sequencing, CRM hygiene), not only run them

• Learn how Storyly integrates (SDK and web) well enough to answer first-level technical questions.

• Write down what works so the next BDR ramps up faster.

What's In It For You:

• To help you reach your full potential, we are offering a self development budget

• An international experience in a total remote work setting

• To have all set up comfortably at home, we are offering a technology budget

• Opportunity to start a career in the mobile technology ecosystem

• An experienced marketing team in all areas of digital marketing

• Build your network that will support your career growth for years to come

• Complimentary private health insurance that covers family members

• Access to internal and external training curriculums