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Sales Development Representative

Posted 25 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 1 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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In just a little over a decade, PitchBook has grown into a global organization with offices in London, Seattle, San Francisco, New York and Mumbai. With consistent high double-digit growth since 2009, the company has become the industry’s leading source of private market data, serving more than 4,000 clients around the world.

PitchBook is committed to fostering an open, collaborative work environment driven by excellence, inclusion and fun. Our culture is at the heart of our success, and it’s something we work on every day.

PitchBook’s London office is a rapidly growing, multi-cultural center of excellence tasked with capitalizing on the vast opportunity to service and expand our client base across EMEA. Our London office is growing rapidly with no slowdown in sight. With a culture that emphasizes collaboration, hard work and camaraderie, working in our London office represents an opportunity to be on the ground floor of what will continue to be a vital center of growth and production for PitchBook.

About the Role:

Business Development at PitchBook is the engine that drives our growth and our Sales Development department is the beating heart of that engine. Our Sales Development Representatives are the first point of contact for the vast majority of our new business opportunities. This is a highly visible role that makes a direct and significant impact in our business.

Additionally, the Sales Development Representative role provides boundless opportunities for both personal and professional growth. The Sales Development team serves as a launchpad to accelerate your career at PitchBook. For those driven to exceed expectations, career paths at PitchBook are endless. Because of our continued growth we are able provide learning and growth opportunities that would take many times longer at other companies.

Are you someone with a genuine interest in learning the complexities of the private capital market? Are you someone who is going to work had day in and day out? Are you someone that loves to build rapport and relationships? Are you eager to help professionals, all the way to the C-Suite, find a product that can genuinely help with their key business decisions? Are you tenacious, outgoing, and a great communicator? If so, we should talk about how you might contribute to the Business Development team at PitchBook!

Primary Job Responsibilities:

  • Act as consultants - our clients appreciate the value of our data for their needs, so we take the time to understand those needs and address them head on
  • Connect with prospects through written and verbal communication
  • Work closely with account executives to understand prospect needs, and for continued knowledge development
  • Prospect into accounts, searching for key points of contact
  • Strive for daily, weekly, and monthly demo goals, while providing excellent experience for prospective customers
  • Work continuously on qualitative and quantitative metrics

Skills and Qualifications:

  • Love to prospect - act as the engine of our sales team, revving up and warming up leads to be shared with our outside sales team
  • Work with a strong sense of urgency, which translates into activity with the expectation of making 50 calls per day
  • Naturally and highly curious - ask thorough and pointed questions, guiding potential clients through needs analysis and discovery sessions to qualify the lead and drive new opportunities
  • Terrific prioritization skills - we generate a LOT of leads for the team to work with every month, and this team knows how to identify and go after the key customers
  • Stellar and professional communicators, both verbally and in their written works
  • Possess strong negotiation skills and can effectively close leads
  • Self-motivated, dedicated, and driven to succeed
  • Love to meet and exceed goals on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
  • Team players with entrepreneurial spirits - come up with and are willing to try new ideas to achieve greater levels of success
  • Interested in financial markets or services, particularly private equity and venture capital
  • Generally, have internship experience or one (1) year of professional work experience, ideally in finance or sales
  • Positive, aggressive, goal - oriented attitudes and mentalities and can be motivated both as an individual and as part of a team
  • A BA/BS degree, frequently in economics, finance and related majors

Company Overview:

At PitchBook, we provide transparency into the capital markets by organizing the world’s meaningful business information and making it useful to our customers. We work tirelessly to arm global professionals with comprehensive data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape—including companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people—so they can discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Our data and analysis are available through our award-winning flagship product, the PitchBook Platform, as well as our powerful suite of integrated tools, industry news and in-depth reports.

If you are ready to start the conversation about how you might contribute to all the happenings at PitchBook, submit your CV today! PitchBook appreciates and respects diversity, and as such, we are an equal opportunity employer.

PitchBook is the leading financial data provider that covers the global venture capital, private equity and public markets. An independent subsidiary of Morningstar, PitchBook currently has offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York and London.

Venture capital & Private equity
London
1,000 employees