Founding New Business Lead
About The Position
Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent, starting with a fundamentally better technical interview. We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the best employers in the world. Company highlights: Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 9 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers including the largest staffing firm in the world Market opportunity: Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up
Requirements
- You have 1 to 3 years of experience in sales, business development, or a high-volume outbound role
- You're relentless about hitting activity targets and genuinely enjoy the hunt
- You're coachable, competitive, and energized by working in a fast-paced environment
Nice To Haves
- You're more interested in earning equity and impact than climbing a predetermined ladder
Responsibilities
- Partner with leadership to experiment with new channels, messaging, and GTM plays
- Own outbound prospecting to staffing and recruiting firms, from initial research to booking qualified meetings
- Build and refine target account lists, identifying the right companies and the right people within them
- Craft personalized outreach that cuts through the noise and speaks to real pain points in technical hiring
Benefits
- Early impact: Join as one of the first sales hires and help define how we go to market
- Ownership: You won't be a cog in a machine. You'll have direct input on messaging, targeting, and process
- Growth trajectory: High performers will have a clear path to closing roles as the team scales
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
