Business Development Representative
Business Development Representative supporting Account Executives in the FinTech segment at Plaid. Responsibilities include outbound prospecting of fintechs and neobanks, pipeline building, qualification calls, and evangelizing Plaid's API platform to founders, PMs, and engineers. Requires 1-3 years sales or pipeline development experience, preferably in SaaS/fintech.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Acting as a key member of the Plaid GTM Team, supporting several Account Executives hunting new business within the fast-paced FinTech ecosystem.
- Liaising with Marketing to provide feedback on fintech-specific campaigns and designing new, cutting-edge outbound efforts.
- Identifying prospects and building pipelines through outbound campaigns targeted at fintech founders, heads of engineering, and product leaders.
- Helping new clients get started with Plaid and answering technical questions about how our APIs integrate into their existing stacks.
- Identifying emerging fintech trends, business models, and sub-verticals (e.g., embedded finance, Web3, alternative underwriting) to help drive increased revenue opportunity.
Qualifications
- 1-3 years of experience in pipeline development and/or sales (preferably at a SaaS, Fintech, or developer-first tech company).
- Leading high-level conversations with tech-savvy founders, product managers, and engineering stakeholders.
- The ability to evangelize Plaid’s value proposition in order to assess buying interest from fast-moving, digital-first innovators.
- The ability to thrive in a high customer volume, time-sensitive environment.
- Having a relentless mindset and an unwillingness to quit when penetrating competitive markets.
- Proficiency in using Salesforce.com or other CRM.
- Experience working with customers and explaining deeply technical products.
- Strong interest in the broader fintech landscape, startup funding trends, and API architecture; a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
- Excitement to work in a high-growth environment and to help build agile processes and tools as needed.
- Desire to get (more) technical and the ability to master the ins and outs of Plaid's entire developer ecosystem (including Auth, Balance, Identity, Income, and Signal).
Skills
Salesforce, CRM, API, Fintech, SaaS, Outbound Sales, Pipeline Development, Technical Sales
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