Business Development Representative

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin.

V7 were recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

Take a tour of our product in 90 seconds here*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-DMAN8gbjk***

Or watch the recent keynote of V7 Go’s launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hit-RogJKvg

About the role:

In this dynamic role, you'll be a vital part of our team, charged with driving growth and expansion. As a Business Development Representative (BDR), your mission is to identify and cultivate new accounts, making you the ultimate 'hunter' in our sales force. You'll have the autonomy to select the companies you pursue, using your instincts to pinpoint the perfect fit.

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of identifying the best prospects, using a blend of outreach methods, and staying informed about the cutting edge of AI.

What you will be doing:

Account Planning and Territory Management: Crafting strategies to conquer your assigned territory, pinpointing high-potential prospects.

Cold Outreach: Engaging in proactive outreach, a blend of calls, LinkedIn messages, and emails, to initiate meaningful conversations and foster connections with potential clients.

Inbound Handling: Skill-fully navigating inbound leads while balancing your proactive outreach efforts.

AI Trends: Staying ahead of the curve by keeping a keen eye on the latest developments in the AI space.

Coordinating with Account Executives: Collaborating closely with our Account Executives (AEs) to ensure a seamless transition and maximise your partnership.

Project Involvement: Opportunities abound for you to participate in exciting projects, contributing your expertise to our ever-evolving solutions.

Who you are:

You’re an ambitious BDR, having worked in high-growth companies at startup, scale-up and hyper-growth stages. You thrive on cold out-bounding, working with an AE to win new logos, and you love it.

• Experience: 2+ years’ in sales/business development within the SaaS space

• Stellar at communication: excellent listening and writing skills, confident engaging with technical C-level stakeholders e.g. CTO/CIO/CDO

• Start up readiness: A self-starter with a can-do attitude & proven track record of overachievement

• Pipeline Generation mindset: Pipe gen is everything, but you know that already. You’ll have sales enablement and all the tools you could wish for. It’s you that makes the difference though, so we expect you to be a PG stalwart.

• Organised and skilled at prioritisation: You are disciplined in your processes, stage-gating your actions! You are meticulous in recording all of this in the CRM.

• This role is remotely based in the US with expectation with expected semi regular travel to our HQ in Soho, London. Reasons for travel including onboarding, in person SKO, company retreats, etc.

What’s in it for you:

• Be our first BDR on the ground in the US.

• 100% remote role with expected travel the UK for revenue kick offs, QBRs, Onboarding, etc.

• 50 | 50 OTE split and uncapped, accelerated commission.

• Equity of a Series A UK HQ business.

• Flexible time off, expectation 5 weeks off plus public holidays.

• Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD) monthly amount budget.

• Fully remote role. Home office stipend to set up however works for you.

• Learning and Development annual wallet $1,000.

• Monthly well being and mental health benefit via Thanks Ben.

• Enhanced parental leave.

• Take a look at the launch of V7 Go here in 1 min video.

• V7 were named as Linkedin’s No2 top startup in the UK in 2023 and 1st on Sifted’s top B2B rising stars for 2024.

• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & AI knowledge.

• Fully paid trip to Europe for annual company retreat. Take a look at our 2023 Italian retreat here.

What's the interview process: Recruiter screen with Sr Talent Acquisition Manager, 1st Hiring Manager interview , 2nd Product Use Case, 3rd Co-Founder Values interview and 4th panel interview including task.

At V7, we welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all qualified applicants, regardless of characteristics such as race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, national origin and more that are projected by law.