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# Business Development Specialist (BDR) at AppSamurai

- **Company:** AppSamurai
- **Location:** Ankara, Turkey
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/appsamurai/9856c681-9d3a-4cdc-94be-04aecb0d9d8a

## Job description

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

## About AppSamurai

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: AppSamurai is an AI-powered mobile growth platform that helps app developers and marketers acquire high-quality users and monetize their apps through programmatic advertising, retargeting, and rewarded monetization.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Incubator/Accelerator stage, total raised $4.75M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA (with additional offices in London, UK and Ankara, Turkey)
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Emre Fadıllıoğlu (CEO & Co-Founder), Soner Şensoy (CRO & Co-Founder), Mehmet Bilgin (CTO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AdTech / Mobile Marketing (User Acquisition, Monetization, Programmatic Advertising)
- **Target customers**: B2B – mobile app developers, game studios, e-commerce, fintech, and other app marketers
- **Mission statement**: “Empower brands with cutting-edge tools for user acquisition, retention, and monetization, helping them grow and thrive in the ever-evolving digital landscape.”

## Products & Services
- **Rewarded UA**: Rewarded user acquisition that brings real, engaged players to games. Claims 119% long-term ROAS and 45% higher D1 retention.
- **Monetization (AppsPrize)**: Rewarded monetization that increases eCPM by 2.7× and ARPDAU by 1.6×.
- **DSP (Programmatic UA & Retargeting)**: Programmatic buying across 80,000+ app integrations and 2B worldwide users.
- **App Discovery (OEM)**: Pre-install and on-device discovery across carriers and OEMs, reaching 800M active devices and 1.2B monthly active users.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $4.75M (as per CB Insights)
- **Notable Investors**: Turcorn 100, ACT Venture Partners, 500 Emerging Europe, Techstars, 212, and 8 other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: 125 employees (as of Sep 2026); remote-first culture (85% remote, 15% hybrid); serves fintech, gaming, e-commerce sectors; ISO 27001 certified; claims strong performance metrics (e.g., +120K new users, $180K+ ad revenue, 4× ROAS KPI for one client).

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines UA, retargeting, OEM discovery, and rewarded monetization in a single solution.
- **AI-powered optimization**: Uses data-driven insights to improve campaign performance.
- **Global reach**: Access to 2B+ users via DSP integrations and 800M+ devices through OEM partnerships.
- **Security certification**: ISO 27001 certified, a differentiator for enterprise trust.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue expanding its AI-driven platform to help mobile apps scale efficiently.
- Strengthen presence in key verticals (gaming, fintech, e-commerce) and regions (Europe, MENA, Turkey).
- Grow remote-first team and invest in partnerships with carriers/OEMs for discovery.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first with 85% of employees working remotely (15% hybrid). Offers flexibility across global time zones.
- **Growth stage**: 125 employees with 8 open positions as of Sep 2026 – opportunity to make an impact in a growing AdTech startup.
- **Perks**: International team with offices in New York, London, and Ankara; legal intern and partnership roles available.
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on AI, programmatic advertising, and data-driven decision making.

## Sources
1. [appsamurai.com](https://appsamurai.com/about-us/) – About page
2. [appsamurai.com](https://appsamurai.com/) – Homepage product details
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/app-samurai) – Funding, investors, headquarters
4. [jobera.com](https://jobera.com/employer/appsamurai/) – Employee count, remote/hybrid breakdown
5. [tryremotely.com](https://tryremotely.com/company/appsamurai) – Additional remote work details

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