Business Development Representative

Boosted; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company headquartered in Toronto is seeking a Business Development Representative to generate and qualify leads. This hybrid role requires strong sales skills and the ability to engage clients in the financial sector. The ideal candidate has a bachelor's degree, 2+ years of relevant experience, and is proficient with CRM software. Competitive environment with opportunities for growth in the rapidly expanding fintech industry.

Benefits

Hybrid work model

Exposure to innovative fintech solutions

Qualifications

• 2+ years in Sales, Marketing, or Business Development in a growth company.
• Experience in fintech or financial services is a plus.
• Proficiency in CRM tools and digital communication platforms.

Responsibilities

• Generate and qualify leads through outbound and inbound initiatives.
• Conduct initial meetings with Financial Services Executives to assess needs.
• Manage CRM data and document sales opportunities.

Skills

Sales expertise

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Time management

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Degree in Business or Marketing

Tools

G-Suite

HubSpot

Slack

Zoom

LinkedIn

Job description

Overview

is a fintech company headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices in New York City and Nashville. We provide finance-specific AI tools that automate custom research workflows, analyzing data continuously from millions of sources, all tailored to the needs of our investment management clients. We are a well funded, post Series-B company - our lead investors are innovators and disruptors in financial and technology markets, including Spark Capital (Twitter, Slack, Affirm), Ten Coves Capital (Plaid, Sentieo, TouchBistro), Portage Ventures (Wealthsimple, Borrowell, Nesto), and RBC (Royal Bank of Canada).

Position Description

This is a hybrid role based in our Toronto office, with an expectation of working in person three days per week.

is looking for a highly motivated, results oriented Business Development Representative (BDR)to join our rapidly growing sales team. As a member of our sales team, your primary responsibility will be generating and qualifying leads for new business through a series of outbound, inbound, and strategic channel development initiatives. BDR will introduce those qualified sales opportunities and schedule meetings for 's Sales Account Executives.

The successful candidate will be required to identify, research, and originate new revenue opportunities, triage new inbound activity, and generate sales qualified leads. They will be responsible for conducting initial meetings with Financial Services Executives and Portfolio Managers to understand their investment process, technology needs, goals and to drive new business towards the achievement of their weekly / monthly / quarterly quotas for sales qualified opportunities.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious professional that is eager to gain exposure experience, and build a career in the high potential world of rapid scaling Financial Markets SaaS Technology.

If you are a highly motivated, entrepreneurial self-starter with a natural curiosity– we'd love to chat

What You\'ll Be Doing (Key Responsibilities)

• Become an Expert on and our clients

Know what we do, who we sell to, and why they buy from us

• Learn and master use of and demonstration skills for
• Understand the business drivers and be confident in delivering value statements to prospective clients within asset management, wealth management, investor relations groups, and global banks
• Become an Expert on Sales Process

Know and contribute to the success of the entire client lifecycle from prospecting to renewal

• Be an expert on CRM data, workflows,and reporting
• Know and contribute to sales cycle efficiency and enablement
• Master the continuously evolving competitive landscape

Provide monthly internal updates on research and findings of competition

• Provide understanding of competitive differentiators for
• Identify any threats presented, and counter objections to them
• Identify and Prospect to Generate New Business Opportunities for

Identify prospects for any given market vertical

• Identify channel selling opportunities to cover swaths of clients vs individual opportunities
• Curate Call lists
• Define, create, and execute on outreach strategies
• Achieve monthly Sales Qualified Lead (SQL) Quota

Qualify Inbound and Outbound Business Opportunities and pass to Sales / AE to work and close

• Respond to 100% of inbound leads and responses to outbound prospecting by EOB daily
• Maintain active engagement with new and existing leads through creative follow-up communications as needed to create a new business opportunity
• Engage with prospects to perform qualification level discovery and present initial conceptual use case and associated value proposition
• Sales Opportunity Documentation

Utilize CRM to capture all information on Contacts, Companies, and Deals

Manage / update existing CRM data and add newly identified companies / contacts

• Maintain and update Deal status to accurately reflect opportunity, value, potential close date, and deal status

Sales Enablement & Sales / Account Executive Support

Maintain ongoing relationships with supported Sales Reps / AE

• Be present, engage, and contribute to internal meetings and idea sharing
• Perform regular process and workflow analysis to optimize GTM motions for BDR
• Prepare and present ongoing updates and reports of BDR business to internal stakeholders.
• Implement best practices in BDR operations to streamline workflows and create efficiencies in new business generation

Who You Are (Skills and Attributes) :

• Bachelor\'s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience will also be considered
• Degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is preferred
• Proven experience (2+ years) in Sales, Marketing, Sales / Business Development or a similar roles in an early-stage growth company is preferred
• Experience and / or interest in AI / machine learning and financial modeling is preferred
• Proficient with G-Suite, Gmail, Calendar, G-Drive, Slack, Zoom, HubSpot and LinkedIn
• Experience working with or selling into Financial Sector is a plus
• Strong interest in fintech and AI

An understanding of market dynamics and competitive landscapes in AI is a plus

• Growth driven and thrives in a competitive environment
• Self-motivated with excellent time management skills
• Takes initiative and actively contributes new ideas
• Knows how to prioritize responsibilities and manage time effectively
• Eager to learn in a fast paced environment
• Strategic thinker
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to establish credibility with senior financial executives
• Creative problem-solver with strong analytical skills
• Desire to build a career in a client facing revenue organization
• Comfortable with high-volume outreach, including making 100+ daily outbound calls to engage potential clients

Diverse Perspectives

We know that innovation thrives on product teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences.