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# Business Development Representative at Starbridge

- **Company:** Starbridge
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $80k–$90k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge/5efc0fe0-7665-42c6-bf4b-14d1c341dcf9

## Job description

## About Starbridge

Starbridge helps go-to-market teams win in the public sector. Government buyers signal their priorities constantly, in council meetings, budget documents, RFPs, and public records, but that intelligence is scattered across thousands of sources and impossible to track by hand. Our platform surfaces those signals, connects them to the right buyers, and turns them into pipeline. We move fast, stay close to our customers, and are building the category. This is a chance to join early and shape how we scale.

## About the role

At Starbridge, we're redefining how companies win public sector deals. Our innovative GTM intelligence platform empowers businesses to confidently approach and win more contracts in the State, Local, and Education (SLED) market—a $1.5 trillion space ripe for disruption. Leveraging AI-driven insights, we provide our clients with an unfair advantage in identifying early buying signals, streamlining outbound strategies, and automating cumbersome processes. We're hiring a Founding Business Development Representative to help drive our explosive early-stage growth. This isn't a typical BDR job—it's an opportunity to join a fast-moving, high-impact team where your work directly contributes to the company's trajectory. In just our first three weeks, we booked 249 demos. You'll play a critical role in scaling this momentum.

What you'll do:

- Lead Initial Outreach: Own the first touchpoint with prospects, leveraging our proprietary AI-powered insights to engage highly qualified leads through calls, emails, and LinkedIn.
- Accelerate Pipeline Growth: Work closely with the sales team to convert conversations into demos, constantly optimizing messaging and outreach strategies.
- Build from Scratch: As an early member, you'll influence the playbook for our outbound motion, shaping best practices that will scale as we grow.
- Sales Bootcamp: You'll receive personalized mentorship, structured sales training, and clear pathways toward becoming an Account Executive on an accelerated timeline. We expect you to learn quickly and move into a closing role.

Why you'll love this role:

- High Earning Potential: Uncapped commission structure directly tied to your performance, rewarding your hustle and effectiveness.
- Rapid Advancement: Structured career growth designed to move you quickly into a higher-level sales role.
- Perks & Support: Meaningful equity options and comprehensive onboarding & sales training.

What you bring:

- Proven BDR experience: Ideally 1-2 years of experience in outbound sales or business development. If you have a different background but possess grit, intelligence, and ambition, we're flexible. Convince us why you're the perfect fit.
- Relentless & Competitive: You thrive in competitive environments and approach challenges with resilience. The idea of spending 5 hours per day making dials fills you with excitement.
- Coachable & Ambitious: You actively seek feedback, apply learnings quickly, and aspire to advance into an AE role.
- Bachelor’s Degree Required: Field of study less important than your drive and results-oriented mindset.

If you're energized by the idea of shaping a rapidly growing startup and accelerating your sales career in a supportive, dynamic team, we want to talk to you.

Interview process We move fast — really fast. Getting back to someone today beats tomorrow, and our interview process reflects that mindset. Please keep us posted on your timeline so we can move quickly and speed things up where needed. All interviews are conducted via Google Meet.

## How we work

- Build Bridges to Help Customers Win - We pride ourselves on being obsessively customer-centric.
- Shooting Star Speed - We move with extreme speed. We value momentum, decisiveness, and the ability to accelerate when it matters.
- Fun Is a Feature - Fun is a Feature means we intentionally design Starbridge to be an energizing place to do hard work. Joy, humor, and camaraderie make great teams faster, sharper, and more resilient.
- In the Arena - We believe the best ideas come from living close to the work, feeling the friction, hearing the nuance, and experiencing the details firsthand.

Benefits include:

- Competitive salary + early-stage equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Regular offsites (NYC + global locations)

## About Starbridge

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Starbridge provides an AI-powered sales intelligence platform that helps businesses find, engage, and win public-sector contracts (government agencies, K-12, and higher education).
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $42M led by Craft Ventures in Nov 2025; total funding $52M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (first funding round in Feb 2025)
- **Founders**: Justin Wenig (CEO/Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI-powered sales intelligence for the public sector (government, education)
- **Target customers**: B2B, enterprise GTM teams (sales, marketing, RevOps) selling to government agencies, K-12 school districts, and higher education institutions
- **Mission**: “We believe that the most pressing challenges of our time — economic growth, education, healthcare, public safety, climate and more — can only be solved through bold collaboration between trailblazing private companies and visionary government.”

## Products & Services
- **Starbridge Platform (SaaS)**: An all-in-one AI sales intelligence platform that includes:
  - **Early buying signals** – 24/7 monitoring of accounts to surface warm leads with verified contact data.
  - **RFP finder & writer** – AI-powered discovery of best-fit opportunities and proposal generation.
  - **Contact & account enrichment** – Enriches contact/company data and prioritizes accounts based on buying signals.
  - **Vendor spend intelligence** – Analyzes contracts, purchase data, and un-redacted sales proposals for education and local government.
  - **Conference intelligence** – Identifies relevant events, stakeholders, and personalized follow-up.
  - **Customer success** – Detects expansion signals and churn risk.
  - **Integrations** – Syncs with Salesforce and Hubspot.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: **$52M total funding** (Seed $10M led by Owl Ventures, Feb 2025; Series A $42M led by Craft Ventures, Nov 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Craft Ventures (lead Series A), Owl Ventures (lead Seed); trusted by 400+ GTM teams including Instructure, SimpliGov, and Clever
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 72 employees (as of mid-2026), **+376.5% YoY**
  - Monthly headcount growth: +2.5%
  - Active job postings: 12 (monthly job posting growth +71.4%, yearly +200%)
  - Operating in 11 countries (US, Poland, UK, Ukraine, India, Switzerland, etc.)
  - Customer case studies show 90% reduction in research time, 20% increase in quota, and tripled pipeline in 6 months

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized AI for public sector**: Unlike generic sales intelligence tools, Starbridge is purpose-built for government and education procurement, monitoring hundreds of thousands of agencies in real time.
- **Proprietary data & signals**: Tracks RFPs, budgets, procurement rules, contract expirations, and meeting discussions – data not easily accessible through other platforms.
- **Deep CRM integration**: Works seamlessly with Salesforce and Hubspot, enabling immediate action on buying signals.
- **Proven ROI**: Customer testimonials cite dramatic reductions in research time (up to 90%) and increased win rates.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Hiring across product, data, and GTM roles (AI Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Account Executive, etc.)
- **Geographic growth**: Scaling teams in Europe/LATAM (e.g., Senior Backend Engineer and Senior Product Engineer roles based in Europe/LATAM)
- **Vision**: Inspire a new wave of entrepreneurs to build for public good, bridging the gap between private innovation and government needs

## Why Work Here
- **High-growth environment**: 376% headcount growth in the last year, recent $42M Series A – strong trajectory and resources.
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work on technology that directly impacts public sector efficiency and collaboration.
- **Remote/hybrid flexibility**: HQ in New York, but many roles are open to Europe/LATAM; some positions are NYC-based.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical team (22% of headcount), use of modern stack (Java/Kotlin, TypeScript/React, Python, Snowflake, etc.), and emphasis on AI and data.
- **Notable perks**: Fast-paced startup with recent funding, exposure to high-stakes government sales, and a chance to shape the product from early stages.

## Sources
1. [starbridge.ai](https://starbridge.ai/)
2. [starbridge.ai/about-us](https://starbridge.ai/about-us)
3. [LinkedIn – Starbridge](https://www.linkedin.com/company/starbridge-ai)
4. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – Starbridge](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com – AI Engineer posting](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/starbridge/117e56db-e1b7-4f83-bc18-44af88efa04e)

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