Business Development Representative, DroneDeploy
USA
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Drone mapping & analytics platform
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Drone mapping & analytics platform
201-500 employees
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More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the power of interactive digital twins accessible and productive for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 6–12 months in a BDR/SDR role or relevant industry experience (AEC). This is an excellent entry-level role for high-aptitude communicators
- Comfortable in a cold call–heavy environment and using power dialers
- Product Fluency: Ability to quickly learn the DroneDeploy platform to answer technical "how-to" questions during initial qualification
- Strong verbal and written communication skills: Ability to actively listen to identify a prospect’s true pain point during a discovery call, handle objections, and educate prospects in a consultative manner
- Organizational Skills: Exceptional time management; you must be able to juggle a high-volume lead queue and follow-up tasks without letting prospects slip through the cracks
- Tech Stack: Proficiency with Salesforce (or similar CRM) and meeting scheduling tools (e.g., Calendly, Chili Piper),Gong, LinkedIn/Sales Navigator, Orum, and Zoominfo
- Self-aware, coachable, and able to implement feedback in real time to overcome challenges
- Intellectually curious and eager to bring your unique approach to the BDR role
- Alignment with DroneDeploy’s core values: Build Trust, Simplify, Make It Happen
What the job involves
- As a Business Development Representative (BDR) at DroneDeploy, you will play a pivotal role in fueling our sales pipeline.
- Reporting to the Director of Sales Development, you will serve as a key connector between marketing demand generation and sales, ensuring a seamless experience for prospects and internal teams alike.
- In this role, your primary focus is to prioritize timely follow-up with inbound leads from marketing campaigns, and provide actionable feedback on prospect interactions.
- Your day-to-day will include cold calling, personalized emailing, and social engagement to generate new demand and expand our customer base.
- Success in this position requires a competitive spirit, a collaborative mindset, and the drive to operate with initiative in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- You will have the opportunity to shape how DroneDeploy reaches new customers, while also contributing to the ongoing evolution of our sales and marketing processes
- Rapid Lead Response: Prioritize and execute immediate follow-up with inbound leads from marketing campaigns, demo requests, and webinars through multi-channel outreach
- Qualification & Discovery: Conduct initial discovery calls to understand prospect needs and qualify them against our ICP (Ideal Customer Profile)
- Seamless Handoff: Ensure a "white-glove" transition of qualified prospects to the Sales team
- Feedback Loop: Provide actionable feedback to the Demand Gen team on lead quality and campaign effectiveness
- Maintain high, disciplined multi-channel activity (calls, email, live chat, video, LinkedIn) and accurate CRM hygiene to consistently exceed monthly and quarterly qualified opportunity targets
- Partner with Demand Generation and Sales on account and territory strategies, aligning campaigns, sequences, messaging, and follow-up cadences to maximize conversion and pipeline coverage
- Share timely field insights on messaging, personas, tools, lead quality, and campaign performance to inform experimentation, improve plays and processes, and continuously strengthen demand generation and sales effectiveness
- Provide feedback to marketing and sales leadership on prospect responses, campaign effectiveness, and market trends to help shape future strategies
- Take ownership of your pipeline, managing priorities and adapting outreach strategies to meet evolving business needs
Our take
Drone Deploy, headquartered in San Francisco, is a cloud-based platform specializing in drone mapping and analytics. With a mission to revolutionize how businesses acquire, manage, and interpret reality capture data from drones, 360-degree cameras, and mobile ground robots.
The company is dedicated to staying at the forefront of innovation within the drone industry, and it consistently seeks out opportunities to broaden the horizons of its capabilities. The company's strategic acquisitions, such as Rocos and StructionSite, are pivotal in achieving this goal.
With substantial investments, Drone Deploy is well-positioned for further expansion, and has aims to diversify beyond the drone sector and intensify its efforts to build a strong to presence in Europe. In 2025, the company announced it had reached break-even, which bodes very well for its future operations.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2025
$15m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $157.6m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Workplace - We believe that people do best when they're happy at work. Whether you’re happiest working from home or want to join us in the office, it’s OK with us
- Great Benefits - It's important to support physical and mental well-being, so we offer the kind of benefits that help meet employee needs and those of their dependents
- Growth and Development - We're in a dynamic and innovative industry and we’re committed to investing in our employees to ensure they're growing, creating, and breaking new ground in their careers
- Work/Life Balance - Time away from work is important to recharge your batteries and enjoy life. We provide flexible hours and paid time off, and work with employees to support their priorities
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jono Millin
(Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder)Previously founded AdvertEyes, Zoomatelo, Infatics.
Michael Winn
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously served as the Tech Lead of Big Data & Tools and Large Customer Sales for Google. Also co-founded Zoomatelo.
Nicholas Pilkington
(CTO & Co-Founder)Previously co-founded Luno. Experience as a Software Engineer for Toshibi and NVIDIA.
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