Full-Time

Business Development Representative

Posted on 8/16/2025

Read AI

Read AI

51-200 employees

AI summaries and communication analytics

Compensation Overview

$60k - $70k/yr

+ Performance-based variable component

Seattle, WA, USA

In Person

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Lead Generation
Cold Calling
Hubspot
Salesforce
Requirements
  • Experience: Prior experience in B2B sales, ideally with SaaS or technology solutions.
  • Track Record: Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets in an early-stage startup environment, exceeding KPIs
  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively write and influence decision makers resulting in customer engagement.
  • Sales Skills: Strong understanding of sales processes, methodologies, and best practices, particularly in managing inbound leads and outbound methodologies.
  • Technical Aptitude: Ability to quickly understand and articulate technical concepts and value propositions.
  • CRM Proficiency: Experience with CRM software (e.g., Hubspot, Salesforce) and sales enablement tools.
  • Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications or a related field.
Responsibilities
  • The Business Development Representative (BDR) will generate new business through outbound calls and targeted emails to potential clients
  • The BDR qualifies prospective customers through targeted questions about their business strategy and then leverages this information to align and sell Read AI
  • This position spends roughly 75% of the time qualifying prospects for the sales team through outbound prospecting efforts and 25% of the time qualifying inbound leads.
  • Business Development Reps will receive hands-on training with an emphasis on strategic discovery and thorough qualification
  • This position is a great way for individuals to gain in-depth experience in a rapidly growing AI SaaS startup.
  • This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Business Development
  • The BDR will use the CRM strategically to record information and identify further opportunities in their assigned territory
  • Create and execute on strategic outbound prospecting campaigns through a mix of call and email outreach.
Desired Qualifications
  • None

Read AI provides an AI-driven platform that boosts productivity in workplace communications by acting as a copilot for meetings, emails, and messages. It integrates with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, and HubSpot to analyze conversations, unify data, and surface actionable insights. The core features include meeting transcriptions, summaries, video highlights, identification of action items and key questions, and real-time engagement and sentiment analytics, with email threading summaries and response drafting. It also creates a unified, searchable knowledge base across platforms to support deal progression and revenue intelligence, tying communication data to CRM data. The goal is to increase knowledge worker productivity by automating and enhancing how teams engage with information and decisions across meetings, messages, and CRM data.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$81M

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

2021

Simplify Jobs

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • 5 million monthly active users with 50,000 daily sign-ups drive viral freemium growth.
  • $81 million funding and $450 million valuation from Series B in October 2024 fuel expansion.
  • 75% Fortune 500 adoption and 100,000 weekly accounts enable lean teams serving enterprises.

What critics are saying

  • Microsoft Copilot natively integrates into Teams and Gmail, commoditizing Read AI's summaries.
  • Google Gemini bundles transcription and analytics into Meet, eroding cross-platform value.
  • OpenAI GPT-4o real-time voice obsoletes Operator's in-person capture within 12 months.

What makes Read AI unique

  • Patented 'Reads the Room' technology analyzes explicit and implicit signals for superior summaries.
  • Operator captures in-person hallway chats alongside virtual meetings and emails.
  • Search Copilot unifies AI search across thousands of apps, CRMs, and terabytes of data.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Performance Bonus

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

8%

2 year growth

13%
TechCrunch
Feb 26th, 2026
Read AI launches email 'digital twin' assistant Ada to manage schedules and answer questions

Read AI has launched Ada, an AI-powered email assistant it calls a "digital twin", to help users manage schedules, answer questions and handle out-of-office replies. The feature is available to all users who can activate it by emailing [email protected]. Ada can coordinate meeting times by responding to email threads with availability options and negotiating alternative slots. It answers queries using company knowledge bases, meeting data and internet searches, whilst preparing draft responses for user approval before sending sensitive information. CEO David Shim said the assistant learns context as users connect more services. Read AI now has over 5 million monthly active users, with 50,000 daily sign-ups. The company has raised over $81 million in funding and plans to expand Ada to Slack and Teams soon.

Block385
Feb 20th, 2026
Why these startup CEOs don't think AI will replace human roles

Why these startup CEOs don't think AI will replace human roles. The CEOs of Read AI and Lucidya told TechCrunch at Web Summit Qatar that they see AI tools replacing tasks, rather than workers.

TechCrunch
Feb 19th, 2026
Startup CEOs say AI will replace tasks, not jobs, as humans remain crucial

Startup CEOs David Shim of Read AI and Abdullah Asiri of Lucidya believe AI will transform tasks rather than eliminate human roles. Speaking at Web Summit Qatar, Shim compared AI to navigation apps, noting humans remain crucial decision-makers even as tools automate routine work. Asiri said AI replaces tasks, not roles, with customer support agents at client companies transitioning to supervisory and business development positions. Shim noted meeting notetakers free workers to focus on higher-value activities like decision-making and customer response. Both companies use AI to maintain lean teams whilst serving large user bases. Read AI's five-person customer service team supports millions of monthly users. The founders emphasised hiring "AI native" employees who can build agents to enhance productivity, aiming to "scale outcomes without scaling headcounts". They also stressed transparency when deploying AI in customer interactions.

SiliconANGLE Media
Sep 17th, 2025
Read AI's new agents help employees stay on top of work by analyzing all their communications

With the launch of its Agentic Workflow Suite today, Read AI says it's providing users with a more comprehensive AI assistant.

GeekWire
Mar 12th, 2025
Geekwire Awards: Ceo Of The Year Finalists Share Tips On Leading Startups

Coverage of the 2025 GeekWire Awards, presented by Astound Business Solutions , the PNW’s annual startup and technology awards.From top left, clockwise: Zuper CEO Anand Subbaraj; Highspot CEO Robert Wahbe; Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi; Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio; and Read AI CEO David Shim.Get close to your customers. Hire the right people. And stay optimistic.These are some of the tactics used by CEOs leading some of the top tech startups and organizations within the Seattle tech industry.The finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2025 GeekWire Awards are: Maria Colacurcio, CEO at Syndio; Ali Farhadi, CEO at Ai2; David Shim, CEO at Read AI; and Anand Subbaraj, CEO at Zuper; and Robert Wahbe, CEO at Highspot.Last year’s winner for this category was Ozan Unlu, CEO of Edge Delta, a Seattle-based software startup that helps engineering and security teams analyze data.The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Finalists in this category and others were selected based on community nominations, along with input from GeekWire Awards judges. Community voting across all categories will continue until March 23, combined with feedback from judges to determine the winner in each category.We'll announce the winners on April 30 at the GeekWire Awards, presented by Astound Business Solutions. There are a limited number of half-table and full-table sponsorships available to attend the event

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