Network Development Associate
Role Overview
This is a junior-to-mid level sourcing role at Dedale Intelligence's new Lisbon office. Day-to-day, you will cold call and build relationships with C-suite executives and industry experts, qualify profiles, and maintain expert pipelines for B2B technology research mandates. As a founding member, you will shape the team's strategy and have a clear path to leadership as the office scales.
Perks & Benefits
Fully remote role with flexibility across US and European time zones. Opportunity to join a founding team in a new office with significant career growth potential, including leadership and strategy build-out. Collaborative culture with top-tier mentors and a diverse international team. Performance-driven environment with clear advancement paths.
Full Job Description
❗NOTE: This is an Ongoing Opportunity - We're Always Hiring Top Talent 🚀
As Dedale is committed to continuous growth and building a team of exceptional talent, this position remains open year-round. We are not bound by a specific hiring quota, but are focused on finding the right long-term fit for both the role and our culture. If you see this posting, it means that we are actively reviewing applications!
About Dedale:
Dedale is the differentiating source of strategic intelligence in the technology space.
With a unique team of over 250 full-time employees, Dedale leverages a network of over 25,000 market professionals to deliver on-the-ground strategic intelligence to investors and corporates, with a core focus around North America and Europe.
Our team gathers top talents with diverse and international backgrounds. Our Research & Investment team has the strongest expertise in the ecosystem on B2B Software due diligence, and we are surrounded by a network of mentors including high-profile tech founders and investors.
Our Culture:
Dedale gathers a group of highly talented international individuals (incl. US, Chinese, Filipino, French, Moroccan, Latvian, Lebanese nationalities among others).
The leadership team is composed of experienced investment professionals & management consultants (ex-McKinsey, BCG Project Leaders & managers).
Our advisory board is extremely high profile, including some of the most successful investors worldwide (incl. Managing Partners of the largest PE and Growth Equity funds, and Tech unicorn entrepreneurs).
We seek to develop a dream team of outstanding investment analysts with strong academic and professional achievements and a passion for investing and technology.
Your Role:
This is a founding role in Dedale's new Lisbon office, with real room to grow beyond sourcing execution into shaping the team's strategy and build-out as the office scales.
Cold call and directly approach senior executives and subject-matter experts to introduce Dedale and build genuine, lasting relationships
Build deep, senior-level relationships with C-suite executives and top-tier advisors, moving beyond transactional outreach to become a genuine long-term point of contact within the network
Proactively identify and source high-quality industry experts and advisors through multiple channels: LinkedIn, professional networks, industry events, and targeted outreach
Qualify expert profiles through phone screening, assessing relevant experience, seniority, and fit for specific research mandates
Build sector fluency across B2B technology and software verticals to know precisely who the right expert is for a given mandate
Coordinate closely with research analysts and project leads to translate mandate requirements into a targeted sourcing strategy
Build and maintain long-term pipelines of vetted experts across priority sectors, re-engaging past contacts for new relevant mandates
Conduct outreach across multiple time zones to engage senior experts across our core US and European markets
Track and improve sourcing funnel performance — outreach response, call conversion, and expert reactivation rates
Maintain accurate expert records in our internal database
Identify and pilot new sourcing channels to continuously expand our global expert network
Support ad hoc sourcing and business development tasks as needed
Grow with the office: as a founding member of the Lisbon team, there's a clear path from sourcing execution into building and leading the team and strategy as the role and the office mature
Your Profile:
Across the firm, we attract motivated, intellectually curious, and analytically rigorous young professionals who are passionate about learning and creating impact. It's highly likely you'll move forward in the process if:
You have a Bachelor's degree with 1-3 years of experience in sourcing, business development, recruitment, or a similarly relationship-driven, target-oriented role
You have excellent verbal communication skills: confident, persuasive, and comfortable picking up the phone to cold call senior executives and industry experts
You have a strong drive to succeed in a target-oriented, high-volume outreach environment
You can quickly grasp business context and research needs, and translate them into a practical sourcing strategy
You're resilient and persistent: comfortable with rejection and able to stay motivated through high call volumes
You have strong organizational skills and are comfortable maintaining and working from a structured database/CRM
Prior experience in executive search, headhunting, sales development (BDR/SDR), or recruitment agency environments is a strong advantage
Strong oral and written communication skills in English are a must; French, German, Spanish, or Italian is a plus
Cherry on the Cake:
You're passionate about technology and the B2B tech space, even without a formal background in it
You like collaborating as a team and delivering your best as an individual
Recruitment Process:
1 HR Chat
Interview with Country Manager
Pre-Case Interview with a Senior Manager
Case Study and Debrief with a VP
Final on-site interview with Managing Director and the HR team
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