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Lead Neo's business development function, building a team and designing an AI-native prospecting engine.

Location
Boston, MA, United States
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
director
Type
full time · On-site

Posted by employer 1 day ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Build, hire, and lead a team of hybrid BDR/SDRs
  • Design an AI-native prospecting engine
  • Evaluate, buy, and build AI tooling
  • Develop messaging and plays for security buyers
  • Own pipeline metrics and report to leadership

Must have

  • 5+ years in B2B SaaS business development or sales development
  • At least 2 years leading BDR/SDR teams
  • Demonstrated, hands-on AI fluency
  • Experience building a team or function from scratch
  • Strong analytical instincts
  • Excellent written communication

Nice to have

  • Experience selling into cybersecurity, IT, or infrastructure buyers

Practical constraints

  • Requires in-office presence

AI in the day-to-day

Design an AI-native prospecting engine: agentic research workflows, signal-based targeting, enrichment, personalization at scale.

Requirements

Experience
5+ years
Visa
Sponsorship available

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation.

Benefits

Relocation Assistance

Joblaze summary

The BDR Manager at Neo Security is responsible for establishing and leading a business development team focused on generating qualified leads through innovative, AI-driven prospecting methods. This role requires a strong background in B2B SaaS sales, particularly in cybersecurity, along with hands-on experience in leveraging AI tools for research and outreach. Ideal candidates will have a proven track record of building teams from the ground up and a clear understanding of the evolving landscape of security sales. Neo is positioned as a forward-thinking company, emphasizing modern approaches to engage a skeptical audience.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze September 27, 2026. Last confirmed on Neo Security's careers page September 27, 2026.
  • AI/ML appears in 22.5% of 408 comparable director sales/marketing roles in United States; security appears in 0.5% of 408 comparable director sales/marketing roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the BDR Manager role remote?
No — this is an on-site role in Boston, MA, United States.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this BDR Manager role.
Where is the role based?
Neo Security is hiring for this position in Boston, MA, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, B2B SaaS, security.
Does Neo Security sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Neo Security targets director candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this BDR Manager role at Neo Security.

From the original posting

Director of Business Development (BDR Manager/Director)

Neo | Boston, MA (in office) | Full-time | Relocation available for US-based candidates

About Neo

AI agents are now running on every endpoint in the enterprise. They read credentials, call APIs, connect to MCP servers, and move data, often with no security team watching. Neo is the agentic software control company. We give SecOps teams a live inventory of every agent, extension, and MCP server across their organization, show how each is configured, and enforce policy on every action at the endpoint before it reaches sensitive data or systems.

Neo launched with $100M from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. We are an AI-native team building the control layer for an AI-native world, and we expect every function, including pipeline generation, to operate that way.

The Role

We are hiring a leader to build and run Neo's business development function from the ground up. This role reports directly to the Head of Marketing. You will recruit, coach, and scale a team of hybrid BDR/SDRs who generate qualified pipeline across inbound and outbound motions.

This is not a traditional BDR leadership role. High-volume sequences, generic cold calls, and spray-and-pray email no longer work, especially on security buyers. CISOs and security managers are among the most heavily prospected, most skeptical audiences in B2B. They delete vendor email on sight and can spot a template in the first line. We need someone who already knows this, has stopped doing it the old way, and has a point of view on what works instead.

You will design a modern prospecting motion where AI does the heavy lifting on research, targeting, personalization, and signal detection, and your team spends its time on the conversations that matter. You will use the best tools on the market and build your own when they fall short.

What You Will Do

  • Build, hire, and lead a team of hybrid BDR/SDRs covering inbound response and outbound pipeline generation.
  • Design an AI-native prospecting engine: agentic research workflows, signal-based targeting, enrichment, personalization at scale, and automated follow-up that doesn't read as automated.
  • Evaluate, buy, and build AI tooling for your team, and measure what each tool contributes to pipeline.
  • Develop messaging and plays that earn attention from a cynical CISO and security manager audience, in partnership with product marketing.
  • Test unconventional channels and tactics: community, content-led outreach, events, peer networks, founder-led and executive-led plays, and ideas we haven't thought of yet.
  • Own pipeline metrics, including meetings set, qualified opportunities, conversion rates, and pipeline sourced, and report on them to leadership.
  • Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps on ICP definition, territory and account strategy, lead routing, and handoff quality.
  • Coach reps to become credible in front of security buyers, with a working knowledge of the agentic threat landscape and Neo's platform.

What You Bring

  • 5+ years in B2B SaaS business development or sales development, with at least 2 years leading BDR/SDR teams.
  • Demonstrated, hands-on AI fluency. You can show us the workflows, agents, prompts, and automations you have built or deployed, and the results they drove. Be ready to walk us through them.
  • A clear argument for why the traditional BDR playbook is broken, and a track record of replacing it with something that performs.
  • Experience building a team or function from scratch, ideally at an early-stage or high-growth company.
  • Strong analytical instincts. You run experiments, read the data, and cut what doesn't work quickly.
  • Excellent written communication. You can write a first line a CISO will read.

Strongly preferred: experience selling into cybersecurity, IT, or infrastructure buyers. Candidates with other notable B2B tech SaaS backgrounds who bring the right approach are encouraged to apply.

How to Stand Out

In your application, include a short example (a paragraph, a screenshot, a Loom, or a link) of an AI-powered prospecting workflow you built or ran, and what it produced. We weigh this alongside your resume.

Location

This role is based in our Boston, MA office and requires in-office presence. Relocation assistance is available for the right US-based candidate.

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