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; and pet insurance.
Notice for California Applicants
Los Angeles County Fair Chance Notice
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years relevant experience (SDR, Customer Success/Service, Direct Sales, Account Management)
- Strong interpersonal and rapport-building skills
- Self-starter with ability to exercise judgment and navigate ambiguity
- Excellent communication skills; ability to lead client meetings and presentations
- Highly organized with ability to handle multiple deadlines
- Track record of strong performance across strategic, operational, and detail-demanding responsibilities
- Ability to work onsite in St. Louis, MO
- Document activities and maintain data in CRM
Compass Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Compass and has not been reviewed or approved by Compass.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage are described as comprehensive, with some noting fully paid dependent coverage and solid plan options. Wellness resources and assistance programs further support overall health needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is characterized as generous for both birthing and non-birthing parents, supporting time at home. Company policies also reference family medical leave.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match alongside an employee stock purchase plan and equity grants adds long-term financial value. These elements broaden total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
A real estate company with a purpose; we are building the first modern real estate platform, pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless.
Why Work With Us
We are a tech company reinventing the space. To lead the industry requires the smartest tools built by the brightest minds across engineering, design, and strategy. Through our proprietary platform, Compass is changing how agents and clients navigate the process of finding or selling a home. Join our team today!
