Business Development Representative - 1085

@ Lightcast
Lightcastlightcast.com

Business Development Representative - 1085

Moscow, ID
Posted 1 week ago

About the job

Lightcast, a global leader in labor market insights, seeks a Business Development Representative in Moscow, ID. Focus on prospecting, qualifying leads, collaborating with sales and marketing, and building a strong sales pipeline to drive growth at a tech company.

Requirements

  • 1+ years sales or prospecting experience
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Comfortable with CRM tools
  • Ability to manage high prospect volume
  • Motivated by sales targets

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or higher
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Interest in sales or business development
  • Team player mindset
  • Goal-oriented and self-motivated

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Important information before applying:

Location: This position is based on-site in Moscow, Idaho, and requires five days per week in the office. We will consider only candidates who currently live locally or are willing to relocate.

Work Authorization: To respect your time, we cannot provide employment visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Before applying, please confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.




As a Lightcast Business Development Representative, you’ll play a key role in generating new business opportunities and helping build a world-class sales development team at a category-defining technology company. Working at the intersection of Marketing and Sales, you’ll convert inbound leads into qualified sales opportunities while also generating new pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Generate Awareness and Build Pipeline: You will proactively identify and engage prospective mid-market customers through outbound prospecting using email, phone, LinkedIn, and other channels. You will also follow up on qualified inbound and marketing-generated leads to create new business opportunities.
  • Prioritize and Prospect Target Accounts: You will manage a defined portfolio of mid-market accounts and use intent signals, engagement data, account research, and sales team input to prioritize the organizations and prospects most likely to engage. You will balance consistent prospecting volume with thoughtful, relevant personalization.
  • Qualify Prospects: You will uncover customer pain points, business priorities, timing, and relevant use cases to determine whether there is a strong opportunity for Lightcast. You will ensure a seamless handoff to the appropriate Account Executive and maintain accurate, timely records of prospect interactions and qualification details in Salesforce and related tools.
  • Partner Closely with Mid-Market Sales: You will work directly with Mid-Market Account Executives to align on priority accounts, prospecting strategies, messaging, and follow-up opportunities. You will maintain regular communication with your alignedAccount Executives and proactively identify accounts where BDR support can help create or accelerate pipeline.
  • Collaborate Cross-Functionally: You will partner with Marketing to support targeted campaigns, events, webinars, content-related follow-up, and other demand-generation initiatives. You will provide feedback on prospect engagement, messaging, lead quality, and market trends to improve future outreach.
  • Reengage Existing Opportunities: You will identify opportunities to reconnect with previously closed-lost, stalled, or inactive prospects whose business needs, timing, leadership, or market conditions may have changed.
  • Contribute to Team Growth: You will share insights, messaging strategies, and successful prospecting approaches with the broader BDR team. You will also actively participate in training, role-playing exercises, coaching sessions, and team meetings to continuously improve your sales skills and effectiveness.

    • Education and Experience:

  • 1+ year(s) of professional experience. Sales, business development, customer-facing, or prospecting experience is preferred.
  • Motivated by measurable goals and comfortable working toward individual activity, meeting, and pipeline-generation targets.
  • Excited to develop new sales skills, apply coaching, and experiment with new approaches. Interested in building a career in sales, business development, or another revenue-focused area.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage prospects professionally, confidently, and concisely.
  • Able to manage a high volume of prospects, accounts, follow-ups, and internal priorities while maintaining strong attention to detail and consistent execution.
  • Comfortable partnering closely with Account Executives, Marketing, and other internal teams to identify opportunities and improve results.
  • Comfortable using or learning our CRM, sales engagement, intent data, and prospecting tools such as Salesforce, Gong, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Demandbase, and AI-enabled prospecting technology.


    • Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights, headquartered in Moscow, ID (US), with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions, companies, and communities.

    Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

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