Entry Level Business Development Representative

Medium; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

401K

Unlimited Vacation Days

Referral Bonus Program

Job summary

Medium is seeking a high-performing entry-level Sales Representative to join their Commercial Real Estate Advertising and Event Sales team in Houston. This hybrid role offers a $50,000 - $55,000 salary plus uncapped bonuses, along with competitive benefits. Responsibilities include establishing relationships with marketing decision makers and driving sponsorship sales. Ideal candidates have 0-2 years of sales experience and an interest in the commercial real estate industry. The position also promotes career advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

• 0 - 2 years of sales experience.
• Ability to demonstrate an entrepreneurial yet disciplined mindset.
• Capability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with marketing decision makers.
• Drive event sponsorship sales through prospecting.
• Document daily activities in Salesforce CRM.

Skills

Sales experience

Entrepreneurial mindset

Team collaboration

Interest in real estate

Ability to learn fast

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

Bisnow is seeking a high-performing, entry-level Sales Representative to join our Commercial Real Estate Advertising and Event Sales team. In this sponsorship sales role, you will partner with clients across the CRE industry to promote, market, and grow their brands through our media platform and live networking events. There is meaningful opportunity for career progression, with a clear path to Business Manager, and a strong commitment to developing and promoting talent from within.

This is a hybrid position, working 3–4 days per week in the office and 1–2 days remotely. The role will sit in our Houston office (4201 Main Street) and spend several weeks in Dallas for training in 2026. We welcome candidates who have gained experience through internships, coursework, or early professional roles and who are available to start on July 6th, 2026.

BISNOW OVERVIEW

Bisnow is the leading B2B media platform powering the commercial real estate industry. We connect CRE professionals through award-winning news, high-impact events, marketing solutions, recruiting services, and sales enablement tools that drive real business results.

With 1.7M+ subscribers and 400+ events annually across 47 markets in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, we don’t just cover the industry, we help move it forward.

We inform. We connect. We create opportunities that turn into deals. Global mindset. Hyper-local execution.

SUMMARY OF ROLE

As a BDR (Business Development Rep) you will be trained in all aspects of the products and solutions that we sell to the commercial real estate market. You will then work with the sales team to create new meetings, proposals and then contracts for clients. Your days will consist of training, taking meetings with clients, attending events to network and learn about our industry. Your goal as an BDR is to ultimately be promoted into a business manager. Once a business manager, you will begin to build your own book of business. If you want to learn how to be a successful business development executive and are willing to work hard and learn, this is a great opportunity for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with marketing decision makers within all asset classes and sectors of our targeted markets.
• Drive event sponsorship sales (both digital and in person when they return) by conducting in-depth prospecting research to source & confirm participation of sponsors for our events.
• Consistently prospect new business to build a strong pipeline for our senior-level sales team and become an expert at specificity prospecting.
• Connect with sponsorship prospects using phone and email strategies; responding to all inbound leads.
• Assist event production department in an effort to build sponsor-friendly programs that ultimately align with the interest of Bisnow’s client base.
• Constantly brainstorm fresh and relevant topic ideas to adapt to trends within the industry.
• Understand both individual and larger team KPIs and position yourself to hit, if not exceed said KPIs on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Document daily activities in Salesforce CRM.
• Work closely with the sales team to accelerate our sales cycle and to extend reach into target accounts.
• Work with a positive, cross functional team on an everyday basis to make certain of successful sponsorship, marketing and financial performance of these events.

What are we looking for?

• 0 - 2 years of sales experience
• Innate hustle, raw intelligence and infectious enthusiasm.
• Ability to demonstrate an entrepreneurial yet disciplined mindset, creative yet organized work-ethic and an ambitious yet humble attitude.
• Ability to learn fast. We’re constantly bringing new digital and event products to market and you need to be able to understand their purpose, how our clients use them and learn to sell them yourself.
• Demonstrated experience excelling in a group or team environment of any sort.
• A strong interest in growing into an externally facing sales role or similar position working closely with clients.
• A strong interest in the commercial real estate industry.
• A strong interest in media and digital marketing solutions.
• Ability to remain receptive to feedback and open, constructive criticism.
• Capability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced, frequently-changing sales environment.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive compensation structure
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Maternity and paternity leaves
• 401K
• Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Account
• Health Savings Account
• Unlimited Vacation Days
• 7 days paid sick leave
• 9 paid Holidays
• Referral Bonus Program
• You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).

$50,000 - $55,000 a year

Plus uncapped monthly bonuses!

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Bisnow will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis and must not require Bisnow's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.