Business Development Representative
Role Overview
This mid-level Business Development Representative role involves creating and running Beam's sales engine with a focus on top-of-funnel activities, including generating, hunting, qualifying, and converting leads through outbound and inbound techniques. As one of the first sales hires, you'll work cross-functionally to build the sales pipeline, oversee sales operations, and potentially manage teammates, blending account executive and business development responsibilities. Day-to-day tasks include cold outreach, product demonstrations, CRM management, and collaborating with marketing to drive demand.
Perks & Benefits
The role is fully remote, offering competitive cash compensation, meaningful commission, and equity, along with generous benefits like medical, dental, and vision insurance. Career growth opportunities include overseeing sales operations, onboarding or managing teammates, and establishing new partnerships, with a team culture that values an entrepreneurial, scrappy mindset and collaboration across functions. While the team is based in San Francisco, remote work allows flexibility, though occasional travel for trade shows or events may be expected.
Full Job Description
About Beam
Every housing and infrastructure project in America is slowed down by stacks of paperwork, manual administrative tasks, and poor financial tracking. Beam builds the software and financial tools to automate these tedious parts of construction—helping America’s builders focus on what they do best.
Beam’s product helps construction businesses incorporate fintech and AI into their workflows, from project estimating to bill payments to expense management—driving massive efficiency gains, ultimately enabling more projects to get off the ground.
Beam is backed by Accel, Zigg, Susa, and other top venture investors. Our team is in-person in a beautiful office in the Financial District of San Francisco. Our team previously worked at Stripe, Pipe, Traba, Fieldwire, and more.
What you’ll do
Create and run Beam’s sales engine, with a focus on top of funnel.
As one of the first sales hires, you’ll work cross-functionally to build our sales pipeline from the top down. You’ll be responsible for generating, hunting, qualifying, and converting leads using both outbound and inbound techniques. As the business grows, you’ll have opportunities to oversee our sales operations and onboard or manage teammates. You may establish new partnerships, design new GTM playbooks, and work creatively to optimize existing channels. Think of this as blend of an account executive and business development representative.
On any given day, you might:
Generate new sales opportunities through outbound outreach: cold calls, emails, site visits, and more
Grow top of sales funnel through creative warm and cold outbound campaigns and partnerships
Collaborate with teammates to generate and qualify inbound demand by experimenting with various marketing strategies
Complete product demonstrations/consultations and assist with onboarding
Research companies and data sources to add prospects to our outbound list
Attend trade shows and networking events to build relationships with prospects
Establish best-practices in our CRM to maintain accurate customer relationship data
Distill feedback and learnings to the product and engineering team to influence our roadmap
What you need
2+ years of experience in customer-facing and/or sales roles
Strong verbal and written communication skills, including a strong phone presence and excellent listening skills
A hunter mentality and the ability to manage a large pipeline of prospects
A bias towards process to track and improve performance
A bias towards using using systems/tools to increase efficiency
An entrepreneurial and scrappy mindset: a self-starter able to thrive in ambiguity
Nice to have
Experience using Hubspot or other CRMs
Experience at a high-growth tech company
Familiarity with financial technology and services
A data driven and/or analytical mindset
Excitement around construction and development
Compensation
We offer competitive cash compensation as well as meaningful commission and equity
We offer generous benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
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