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# Business Development Representative at Artisan

- **Company:** Artisan
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artisan/c3582ee1-9a26-4cab-ac64-4a80042b281c

## Job description

## About Artisan

We're building AI employees. Not chatbots. Not copilots. Autonomous digital workers that do real jobs. Our first, Ava, is an AI BDR used by hundreds of companies. She researches leads, writes and sends emails in a customer's voice, runs multi-step outbound sequences, self-optimizes over time, and handles objections and meeting booking. She's not a tool someone uses. She's a teammate. We're a YC W24 company, have raised $35M+ from investors including Y Combinator, and are at $10M+ ARR. We recently launched Ava 2.0, a step change in what an AI employee can do. And we're hiring.

## Role overview

You'll be the first Business Development Representative on the Artisan team! This is a foundational GTM hire. You'll own outbound pipeline generation, working alongside Ava, our AI BDR. She handles the lists, the outreach, the records, and the scheduling. You handle everything she can't.

- You're not joining a BDR team. You are the BDR team.
- Cold call prospects and engage target accounts to generate qualified pipeline
- Call every inbound lead within minutes of them raising their hand
- Turn your conversations into booked meetings for our AE team
- Carry a quota of meetings held, not activity metrics
- Work with our product team to make Ava better

Location: Remote (US or UK, US business hours) Team: GTM Reports to: Walker, our Head of Sales Compensation: $60,000-$80,000 on-target earnings (base + commission) for US-based candidates. UK compensation localized.

## Who you are

- 1+ years as an SDR/BDR, or exceptional evidence you belong in sales
- Excellent communicator, quick on your feet, great at building rapport
- Confident on the phone
- Resilient. Rejection doesn't rattle you
- Comfortable being the only human on the team
- Excited to work at the frontier of AI and sales

Interview process

- Introductory chat with Alejandra, our recruiter
- 30-minute interview with Walker, our Head of Sales
- Mock cold call session
- 30-minute culture and values interview with Jaspar, our CEO

Our culture and values

- Founder mindset. Everyone acts like an owner: take initiative, think big, challenge ideas, and push for 10× outcomes
- Obsessed with impact. We apply the 80/20 rule, kill sunk costs quickly, and focus on what actually moves the needle
- Customer-first, always. Every decision is made with the customer experience at the center
- High standards, every detail. Quality matters in everything we ship, from product and code to copy and design
- Clear, direct communication. We value candor, fast responses, and feedback
- Winning team energy. We bring positive vibes, low ego, zero drama, and genuinely enjoy building together

## About Artisan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Artisan builds autonomous AI employees (called Artisans) that automate repetitive business tasks, starting with an AI BDR for outbound sales.
- **Entity Type**: Private (YC W24, raised $35M+)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with offices in New York and remote team members globally)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jaspar Carmichael-Jack and Sam Stallings

## Core Business
- Primary industry: AI-powered sales automation / B2B SaaS
- Target customers: B2B SaaS startups with early product-market fit
- Mission: Redefine the future of work by building AI employees that work alongside humans, freeing teams to focus on high-impact work.

## Products & Services
- **Ava (AI BDR)**: An autonomous AI business development representative that finds leads, enriches data, runs personalized multi-channel outbound sequences (email, social, calls), handles replies, books meetings, and self-optimizes. Replaces a stack of separate sales tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: $6M+ ARR (as of YC listing) and **$35M+ total funding** (across rounds; some sources mention $32M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (W24), HubSpot Ventures, Soma Capital, Glade Brook Capital, BOND
- **Growth Signals**: 50+ team members across product, engineering, and GTM; talent from Meta, Ramp, Rippling, Deel, AWS, McKinsey; hundreds of customers including Remote, Quora, SumUp; building Ava 2.0 to push boundaries of AI employees.

## Competitive Advantages
- **True AI employees, not copilots**: Artisans work autonomously (find leads, write in customer voice, manage deliverability, self-optimize) rather than just assisting humans.
- **Consolidated platform**: Replaces the typical 10+ tool sales stack with a single AI-first workspace.
- **Backed by top-tier investors** including HubSpot Ventures, providing strategic distribution.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand beyond outbound sales into other business functions (customer success, recruiting, etc.) with additional Artisans.
- Continue improving Ava (2.0) and scaling the platform to serve more customers across industries.
- Build the company that defines the era of AI employees.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High standards, founder mindset, customer obsession, direct communication, winning team energy, low ego.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in San Francisco and New York; global team.
- **Team**: Lean team from top tech companies (Meta, Ramp, AWS, etc.) and strong YC pedigree.
- **Impact**: Work on cutting-edge AI that directly transforms how businesses operate; early employee opportunity with significant ownership.
- **Compensation**: Competitive (roles posted $150K–$275K base, plus equity). Perks not explicitly listed.

## Sources
1. [artisan.co/about](https://www.artisan.co/about)
2. [artisan.co/careers](https://www.artisan.co/careers)
3. [artisan.co](https://www.artisan.co/)
4. [ycombinator.com/companies/artisan](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artisan)
5. [help.artisan.co](https://help.artisan.co/articles/5834370686-what-is-artisan-a-quick-overview)

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