Founding Business Development Representative
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Description
- Your role will play a major role in our success because you’ll be one of the first BDRs dedicated to the German market, directly fueling our sales pipeline and revenue growth
- You’ll be the engine behind new opportunities — opening doors, creating conversations, and ensuring our Account Executives spend their time on high-quality, well-qualified meetings
- You’ll know you’re successful when, after 90 days, you’ve:
- Built a strong outbound rhythm with consistent, high-quality activity
- Started booking qualified meetings for AEs
- Become autonomous in prospecting, CRM hygiene, and handover
- How we’ll measure success:
- Main KPI 1: Number of outbound activities (calls)
- Main KPI 2: Number of meetings booked (SQL)
- Main KPI 3: Number of qualified meetings (SAL)
- Secondary KPI 1: Pipeline and revenue influenced
- Secondary KPI 2: CRM data quality and feedback loops
- Let’s be real — here’s what makes this role challenging:
- High volume of outreach with frequent rejection
- A strong focus on phone-based prospecting (cold calls are key)
- You need resilience, consistency, and energy — even on hard days
- You’ll be measured on inputs and outputs, not just effort
- Fast feedback loops: you’ll constantly adapt based on results
- You’ll need to help build structure where it doesn’t fully exist yet, contributing to playbooks, processes, and feedback loops that will shape how our GTM motion is set up in Germany
- This role is not about comfort — it’s about growth, grit, and momentum
- Main Tools: HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Outreach, Notion, Slack
- You’ll work day-to-day with:
- Max Feider, Head of International Expansion
- Mafalda Morais, Revenue Operations Manager
- Filipa Manita, Head of Revenue Operations
- Key Stakeholders:
- Account Executive Team
- Marketing Team
- Growth Team
Benefits
- 👩🏻💻 Fully Remote + €1000 Remote Work budget
- 📚 €1000 Personal Growth budget
- 🖥️ Workstation + €500 Onboarding budget
- 🌴 25+3 days paid time off
- 👩⚕️ Premium Health Insurance
- Calm under pressure: you remain grounded and composed in challenging situations
- Coachable: you actively seek and embrace continuous feedback to improve
- Persuasive: you influence others effectively without being aggressive
- Proactive: you bring energy, initiative, and resilience to your work
- Objection-ready: you stay comfortable handling pushback and difficult conversations
- Languages: English (main) / German (C2/native). Portuguese / Spanish / Italian are a plus
- Creative problem-solving ability when the obvious path is blocked
- Resilience in the face of rejection, with the ability to hear “no” without taking it personally
- Outcome-focused approach, where “good enough” beats perfect and impact beats process
- Self-driven, proactive mindset, with strong motivation to continuously improve
- Fluency in English and German
- Iterative, curious, entrepreneurial mindset, focused on bringing solutions, not just problems
- Strong verbal communication skills
- Knowledge of the benefits market
- Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese language skills
- Exposure to tech, HR, finance, or benefits-related ICPs
- Strong CRM usage habits, with HubSpot experience as a plus
- SMB outbound sales experience
- No cover letter required
- Apply with your LinkedIn or upload your CV in English
- You may be asked a few short, relevant questions
- Total candidate time investment: ~2 hours end-to-end
- CV / LinkedIn Screen — Signal check vs must-haves
- Done by People + Hiring Manager
- You’ll hear from us within 7 business days
- Role-Fit Questionnaire (async)
- Purpose: capture signals your CV can’t (languages, tools, scenario judgement)
- Format: short answers
- Accessibility: prefer a call? Tell us - we’ll swap for a short chat
- People Team Screening Interview - Mutual fit & context
- Hiring Manager Interview - Deep dive into your work
- 45 min with Alex Andrés Knight. Structured around outcomes, decisions, and collaboration
- Includes a roleplay focused on: strategy, objection handling, booking meetings
- Team Chat - Meet the Head of International Expansion + Q&A
- 45 min with Max Feider
- Optional: References (2–3 people who’ve seen your recent work) - async
- We use a few tools to reduce bias and improve documentation, not to make hiring decisions
- Teamtailor anonymisation: profiles are reviewed without relying on names/personal identifiers
- Meeting recorder (e.g., Talka.ai): may be used to capture interviews so we can focus on the conversation
- ChatGPT: may be used to turn interview notes/transcripts into clear, structured summaries
- Important: every application is reviewed by a human, and no decision or rejection is made by AI. If recording is used, we’ll be transparent and (where required) ask for consent
- Decision: within 4 weeks of your application
- Updates: weekly if the process runs longer
- Scheduling: interviews between 10:00–16:00 CET (flexible across Europe)
- Feedback: from the Case stage onwards, you’ll always receive written or verbal feedback - what went well, and what to strengthen next time