Sales & Business Development Specialist

Posted 21 Days Ago
7 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Junior
Information Technology
The Role
Own the sales and partnership pipeline from lead qualification through signed agreements and partner launch. Responsibilities include discovery calls, lead generation, market research, personalized email and LinkedIn outreach, proposal creation, partner activation, and performance tracking. The role works closely with the CEO and Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to engage governments, innovation agencies, and corporations worldwide.
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Your Role

You'll own the path from first conversation to signed partnership. Working with our CEO and our Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams, you'll bring StartupBlink's research and ecosystem work to governments, innovation agencies, and corporates around the world.

What you'll do

  • Qualify leads: run discovery calls to find the opportunities worth pursuing
  • Generate new opportunities: research target organizations and follow market signals, events, and conferences
  • Outreach: write personalized email and LinkedIn outreach that opens conversations with value, not pitches
  • Create proposals: Build tailored proposals for governments and corporates, and work with the CEO to align and improve our proposal templates.
  • Activate Partners from first contact to launch
  • Follow department metrics
Skills & Requirements

Must have

  • 2+ years in business development, sales, or partnerships (B2B preferred)
  • Experience running discovery or sales calls with senior stakeholders
  • Strong outreach and proposal writing
  • Professional-level English, written and spoken

Good to have

  • Pipeline management, ideally in a CRM such as HubSpot
  • Experience coordinating or managing a small team
  • Experience with governments, innovation programs, or startup organizations
What We're Looking For
  • You're a proactive self-starter who creates opportunities instead of waiting for them.
  • You're organized, persistent, and comfortable speaking with executives and decision-makers. 
  • You care about economic development and startup ecosystems, and you want to grow with a close-knit, fun team and become a key part of our continued success. 
Process & Conditions
  • Location: Remote, 9 AM to 5 PM CET
  • Compensation: Starting monthly salary based on experience and skills, with growth tied to your contribution to company goals
  • Hiring process: Screening questions, a short test task, and several interviews with the team
  • Vacation: 26 paid days per year
About Us

StartupBlink is a global startup ecosystem map and research center, trusted by hundreds of thousands of stakeholders and featured in thousands of publications worldwide. We help dozens of governments, Corporations, and leading international organizations accelerate the growth of their startup ecosystems.

We're a small, motivated, fully remote team, with most members based in Europe, which is why this role operates on European business hours. You'll be working directly with our management team on high-impact projects.

This role offers the opportunity to build critical expertise, grow your career, and collaborate with world-class clients and partners.

Come build with us!

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of experience in business development, sales, or partnerships, preferably B2B
  • Experience conducting discovery or sales calls with senior stakeholders
  • Strong outreach and proposal-writing skills
  • Professional-level written and spoken English
  • Pipeline management experience, ideally using a CRM such as HubSpot
  • Experience coordinating or managing a small team
  • Experience working with governments, innovation programs, or startup organizations
  • Previous work in a startup-related organization
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The Company
22 Employees
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

StartupBlink is a global research platform that maps startup ecosystems and provides data and insights on the innovation economy to support decision-makers.

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