Strategic Growth Associate

Compass; Georgia; On-site; USD 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentives

PTO & parental leave

Medical benefits

401(k)

FSAs

Commuter program

Life & disability insurance

Maven

Carrot

UrbanSitter

EAP

Pet insurance

Job summary

Compass is seeking a Strategic Growth Associate in Houston to drive net-new pipeline across Compass-owned brokerages. The role mirrors an SDR position with deal sizes and cross-functional coordination.

You will engage with real estate agents across markets, build relationships, and advance through a structured learning path in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with Strategic Growth Managers, handle inbound and outbound outreach, and contribute to a data-driven sales process while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong interpersonal and rapport-building skills.
• Self-starter attitude with ambiguity tolerance.
• Excellent communication skills for client meetings and presentations.
• Highly organized with ability to handle multiple deadlines.
• Proven track record of excellence across responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Generate new business opportunities to build the sales pipeline.
• Prospect agents via cold-calls, texts, emails, and campaigns.
• Articulate value proposition and handle objections to create opportunities.
• Collaborate with Strategic Growth Managers to develop prospecting strategies.
• Document activities in CRM with accurate data management.
• Engage leads through strategic follow-up communications.
• Work cross-functionally to improve processes and drive demand.
• Analyze addressable market and identify nascent geographies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Self-starter

Organization

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we're revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients.

Our Strategic Growth team is the face of the company and the engine of our market expansion. As a Strategic Growth Associate (akin to a Sales Development Representative) at Compass International Holdings, you are directly responsible for driving net-new pipeline across our company -owned brokerages for our Strategic Growth Team.

We are looking for high-energy, driven professionals with sound business acumen, strong EQ, and natural sales instincts to join our Sales Development organization as Strategic Growth Associate. You will gain experience interacting with real estate agents across multiple geographies and understanding their business challenges. You should be eager to advance your skills and experience through a clearly defined learning path. Compass offers a fast-paced, innovative environment where you will be provided the tools, resources and leadership to succeed and take your career to the next level.

The role is similar to an SDR role due to deal size, complexity of conversation, objection handling and cross-functional quarterbacking.

What You'll do

• You'll generate new business opportunities to build our sales pipeline through both inbound and outbound efforts
• Outreach directly into prospective agents that fit our ideal persona via cold-calls, text, emails, integrated marketing campaigns, LinkedIn campaigns and other methods
• Articulate our value prop and objection handle to create qualified opportunities in your market
• You will work closely with the Strategic Growth Managers and Team Leaders to develop successful prospecting strategies
• Document all activities within our CRM, maintaining flawless data management
• Drive active engagement with new and existing leads through creative follow-up communications
• Collaborate cross-functionally to create new processes and refine existing processes through innovative thinking
• Analyze addressable market in nascent geographies and create demand for disruptive technology

What This Role Offers

-Become a critical part of the high performing team, adding value to each SGM's sales process
-Engage in a highly consultative, human sales process requiring high IQ and EQ.
-Build trusted relationships with high-performing professionals.

Location

Based in our Houston office, this onsite, market-facing role will have you engaging clients in the field while collaborating in person with local teams and agents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience with history of strong performance (SDR, Customer Success/Service, Direct Sales)
• Strong interpersonal and rapport-building skills, glass-half-full mentality, natural leader
• Self-starter attitude and ability to exercise judgment and solve difficult problems without direct supervision, comfortable with ambiguity
• Excellent communication skills; ability to effectively lead client meetings and presentations
• Highly organized; ability to handle multiple deadlines simultaneously
• Track record of excellence across strategic, operational, and detail-demanding functional responsibilities

Compensation

The base pay range for this position is $31.25-$36.06 per hour ($65,000-$75,000 annualized); however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location.

Perks that You Need to Know About:

• Participation in our incentive programs (which may include eligible cash, equity, or commissions).
• Plus paid vacation, holidays, sick time, parental leave, and recharge leave
• medical, tele-health, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k) plan
• flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• commuter program
• life and disability insurance
• Maven (a support system for new parents)
• Carrot (fertility benefits)
• UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
• Employee Assistance Program
• pet insurance.

Do your best work, be your authentic self.

At Compass, we believe that everyone deserves to find their place in the world - a place where they feel like they belong, where they can be their authentic selves, where they can thrive. Our collaborative, energetic culture is grounded in our Compass Entrepreneurship Principlesand our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, growth and mobility. As an equal opportunity employer, we offer competitive compensation packages, robust benefits and professional growth opportunities aimed at helping to improve our employees' lives and careers.

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