Sales & Business Development Specialist (Fully Remote)

StartupBlink; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

StartupBlink is seeking a Partnerships & Business Development professional to own the path from first conversation to a signed partnership. You will collaborate with the CEO and Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to advance opportunities.

Bring StartupBlink's research and ecosystem work to governments, agencies, and corporates. You will qualify leads, conduct discovery calls, and craft tailored outreach and proposals for high-impact clients in a fully remote, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Ability to qualify leads and run discovery calls.
• Experience writing personalized outreach and tailored proposals for high-impact clients.

Responsibilities

• Qualify leads and run discovery calls to find opportunities worth pursuing.
• Generate new opportunities through market signals, events, and conferences.
• Write personalized outreach and build tailored proposals for high-impact clients.

Skills

Proactive

Self-starter

Organized

Persistent

Executive communication

Proposal writing

Job description

• Own the path from first conversation to signed partnership.
• Work with the CEO and Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams.
• Bring StartupBlink's research and ecosystem work to governments, agencies, and corporates.

What You'll Do:

• Qualify leads and run discovery calls to find opportunities worth pursuing.
• Generate new opportunities through market signals, events, and conferences.
• Write personalized outreach and build tailored proposals for high-impact clients.

What We're Looking For:

• A proactive self-starter who creates opportunities instead of waiting for them.
• Organized, persistent, and comfortable speaking with executives and decision-makers.
• Passionate about economic development and startup ecosystems, and eager to grow with a close-knit team.

StartupBlink

StartupBlink is a global startup ecosystem map and research center that helps governments, corporations, and international organizations accelerate the growth of their startup ecosystems. The company is a small, motivated, fully remote team with most members based in Europe.