Founding BDR

Posted:
8/19/2026, 4:16:34 AM

Location(s):
Berlin, Germany

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level

Field(s):
Finance & Banking ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Workplace Type:
On-site

About the Role

This is the founding BDR seat at an early-stage AI startup selling intelligent agents into Europe's industrial enterprises. You'll own the entire top of funnel — working directly alongside the COO to open doors with procurement leaders and C-suite contacts at complex manufacturers and Mittelstand companies making critical AI decisions right now.

What You'll Do

  • Make cold calls every day, treating each conversation as real-time market feedback and continuously refining your approach.

  • Build and prioritize a target account list, identifying which industrial enterprises fit the ICP and which trigger events make outreach timely.

  • Execute multi-channel outreach cadences (cold call, email, LinkedIn) relentlessly and feed insights back to sharpen messaging week over week.

  • Work warm pipeline sourced from trade fairs, webinars, and existing relationships — deciding which leads move first and how to convert interest into booked meetings.

  • Book qualified discovery meetings with procurement leaders and C-level contacts at complex industrial enterprises, with a focus on pipeline that moves ARR.

  • Feed market intelligence — objections, patterns, and positioning signals — back to the broader team to inform go-to-market decisions.

  • Shadow discovery calls today and grow into running them, with a clear path from BDR toward owning deals.

What We're Looking For

  • 0–2 years of commercial experience — in sales, fundraising, sponsorship acquisition, or running your own venture — with a demonstrated track record of winning over stakeholders.

  • Fluent German (essential for phone conversations with German industrial buyers) and strong professional English.

  • Proven ability to execute cold outreach via phone, email, and LinkedIn and convert contacts into qualified meetings with enterprise decision-makers.

  • Experience building and running multi-channel sales sequences and prioritizing target accounts against an ICP.

  • Comfortable in B2B or enterprise sales environments with complex, multi-stakeholder decision-making.

  • Resilient by nature — you treat rejection as information and maintain high conversation quality through volume.

  • Growth mindset: you actively seek hard feedback and have measurable week-over-week improvement to show for it.

  • Familiarity with supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, or industrial operations is a plus.

  • Experience with CRM systems and sales engagement platforms is a plus.

Location

On-site in Berlin, Germany. No visa sponsorship available.

Clera

Website: https://www.getclera.com/

Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Employee Count: 1-10

Year Founded: 2025

IPO Status: Private

Last Funding Type: Pre-Seed

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