We’re looking for an ambitious, hardworking and hands-on Business Development Manager to join us at an exciting period in our growth. \n\nWorking closely with our founders, you’ll be joining a well funded tech startup to play a pivotal role in setting up and executing our first sales strategy.\n\nOnce the strategy is proven, you’ll have the financial backing and support of the founders to rapidly build a sales team around you and help grow BuildStream into an industry leading platform as fast as possible.\n\n## **About us**\n\nOur mission at BuildStream is to help the world’s infrastructure workforce build rewarding, well paid careers. Our next step in this journey is to build the world leading platform to manage recruitment, payments, training and more.\n\n**Our guiding principles are:**\n\n1. Ensure more money goes to the people doing the hard work\n2. Use technology to find efficiencies that save employers time and money\n\n**Better for workers**\n\nBuildStream will always be free for workers. \n\nWe provide better rates of pay, instant pay options, access to training, plus a dedicated technical specialist from our team to help them find the right roles and further their career.\n\n**Better for employers**\n\nEmployers using BuildStream find us much lower cost than traditional recruitment services, and we're a faster, higher quality alternative to using LinkedIn or traditional jobs boards. \n\nWe save them time, money, and ultimately ensure their projects are delivered on time with fewer distractions and workforce related headaches.\n———\n\n## Role responsibilities\n\nThis is a pivotal role within our company and will focus on **setting up, implementing and constantly improving our sales process and strategy.**\n\n- Work collaboratively to create our sales strategy version one\n- Test, iterate and finalise the sales strategy until it is ready to scale\n- Set up KPI reporting to embed a data-driven approach to sales\n- Contribute to our sales and marketing materials\n- Set up and manage inbound and outbound funnels\n- Recruit, train and manage a team to deliver the sales strategy\n- Contribute to product development by providing feedback and insights\n- Manage your own revenue line initially, and represent the company to high value customers\n\n## About You\n\n- 4+ years of high performance in a sales role\n- Previously devised a sales strategy selling to enterprise customers\n- Taken an analytical, data-driven approach to measuring sales performance\n- Clear communicator and open to new ideas\n- Believes there's a big opportunity for tech to improve the status quo\n- Ability to build a motivated, high performing team\n\n**Bonus:** \n\n- A strong network of contacts in one of the industries we serve\n- Built your own small agency or a revenue stream within another company before\n\n## Why BuildStream\n\n- Sizeable equity for early employees\n- Backed by YC, MINI and other notable investors\n- Freedom and fast pace of an early stage startup\n- Autonomy in this role and full support of the founders\n- Work remotely from anywhere (time zones permitting)\n\n## Current clients\n\n- Product manufacturers\n- Energy and engineering companies\n- Larger TIC (testing, inspection and certification) agencies\n\n\n👉🏻 [**Apply now!**](https://airtable.com/shrjVC4R6rhqpJEyG)\n\n\n\n# **About BuildStream**\n\nOur CEO, Terry is a YC alumni that previously worked in construction and engineering and saw first hand how existing recruitment processes were built around fees for the recruiters, rather than to serve employer and worker. Adam, our CPO, was previously a Head of Product at [Hubs](https://hubs.com/), a manufacturing marketplace which [recently sold for over $280m](https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/protolabs-acquires-3d-hubs-for-280m-to-expand-manufacturing-partner-network-182844/). \n\nWe've recently raised our seed round (announcing details soon!) from notable marketplace founders and we're building our the team to help us scale rapidly. This is a great time to join BuildStream if you want to have positive impact on the future of a company that can make a real difference to major projects and a global workforce of millions! \n\nPlease mention the word **OPTIMISTIC** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDkuMjM0LjI1MQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $50,000 — $90,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide