BDR Manager

About us

Nexl is a fast-growing LegalTech company on a mission to elevate the business of law. The company builds an AI-driven CRM and growth intelligence platform that brings a firm’s internal and external data together so lawyers, marketing teams, and business development teams can collaborate, spot opportunities, and grow revenue.

Nexl has been recognised by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and the Australian Financial Review as one of the fastest-growing companies in the region, is trusted by 150+ law firms globally, and recently closed a $23M USD Series B led by Tidemark Capital.

The Opportunity

You’ll lead the team that creates Nexl’s US pipeline. You’ll manage 4–6 BDRs, report to our Head of Sales, and be accountable for what they generate: meetings booked, meetings held, and opportunities that turn into revenue.

This is a hands-on role. You’ll run call blocks with the team, listen to recordings, rewrite sequences that aren’t converting, and get on the phone yourself to show how it’s done. Our pipeline comes mostly from outbound into US law firms, plus leads from Marketing’s events and webinars. Law firm leaders are busy and get pitched constantly, so the plays, messaging, and objection handling you build for them matter as much as activity levels.

You’ll lead the team from our new Utah hub, so you’ll be in the room for call blocks, coaching, and wins, and you’ll help set the tone for the hub as it grows. If you were a strong BDR, have since led a team, and want to build a BDR function that also grows future AEs, this role is for you.

What You’ll Own & Do:

• Team pipeline number: Own meetings booked, meetings held, and opportunities created by the BDR team, and forecast them weekly to the Head of Sales.
• Daily coaching: Run call blocks, live coaching, and weekly 1:1s focused on building skills, not status updates.
• Standards : Set clear activity and quality standards across calls, emails, and LinkedIn, and address gaps quickly and directly.
• Plays & messaging: Build and refine sequences, talk tracks, and objection handling for each law firm persona: marketing and BD leaders, partners, and firm leadership.
• Coaching on real data: Use call recordings and HubSpot pipeline data to spot what’s working and lift connect, meeting-held, and conversion rates.
• Hiring & ramp: Hire BDRs with our People & Culture team, own onboarding, and get new hires fully productive inside a defined ramp window.
• Account targeting: Use Clay, AI, and data signals to build target account lists with Marketing and focus the team on the right firms.
• Event & inbound follow-up: Agree lead routing and speed-to-lead standards with Marketing for event, webinar, and website leads.
• BDR to AE handoff: Own qualification criteria and pipeline quality, and run a feedback loop with AEs on the meetings they receive.
• Career paths: Build a bench of BDRs ready for promotion into AE roles.

What We're Looking For:

Must haves:

• 1+ years managing an SDR or BDR team in B2B SaaS, with a track record of hitting team pipeline targets.
• Experience building or scaling a BDR team at an early-stage company.
• Success as a BDR or AE yourself, and happy to get on the phone and show the team how it’s done.
• Experience building and refining sequences, cold call talk tracks, and objection handling frameworks.
• Comfortable living in activity and pipeline data, including call recordings, and turning it into coaching decisions.
• Experience hiring, onboarding, and ramping BDRs, and managing performance issues directly and fairly.
• You set a clear bar and hold the line on it.
• You work well with Marketing and AEs, and you’re comfortable agreeing SLAs with both.

Nice to haves:

• Experience selling into law firms or other professional services businesses.
• Advanced HubSpot reporting, Clay, or data-enrichment experience.
• Experience with conversation intelligence tools such as Gong.

What Success Looks Like:

• First 90 days: Plays and messaging for our law firm personas are live, standards and SLAs with Marketing and AEs are agreed, and you have a hiring plan for the team.
• By six months: The team is consistently hitting its pipeline targets and AEs trust the meetings they receive.
• By 12 months: The BDR team is a predictable source of pipeline and at least one BDR is ready to step into an AE role.

Life at Nexl

• Hybrid working. You’ll be in our Utah hub a few days a week for collaboration.
• Comprehensive US benefits package including medical, dental, and 401(k).
• Nexler top-up days. We top up your paid time off so you get at least 20 days a year.
• Work from anywhere. Spend up to four weeks a year working from outside the US.
• Birthday leave. Take a paid “Nexl Day” during the week of your birthday.
• High growth. A scaling environment with autonomy, ownership, and visible impact.
• ESOP. Employee stock options so you share in the upside.
• Parental leave. Paid leave to support you and your family as it grows.
• Transparent by default. Fortnightly all-hands with strategy, metrics, wins, and learnings.
• Purposeful connection. A jam-packed social scene with multiple socials, team off-sites, and events throughout the year to bring everyone together.
• Tools & tech. Modern, AI-first ways of working to help you move faster and smarter, plus a work laptop.

Even if you don't tick every box, Nexl would still love to hear from people who are excited by the mission and believe they would thrive in a high-growth, high-accountability environment.