Startups Ambassador (Bio)

Sales at Brex

The Sales team is the driving factor behind revenue for Brex and every member of our team directly affects our bottom line. We focus on generating new opportunities, acquiring new customers, and building even stronger relationships with our current customers. Our winning culture recognizes big team wins and celebrates individual accomplishments. We ensure that top performers are recognized and have built a competitive environment to motivate and unify the team.

What you’ll do

You will specifically be focused on establishing, managing and growing relationships with top-tier VCs and their founders, across the Bio and Healthcare verticals. Your primary responsibility is to be a Startups Ambassador to the Bio and Healthcare ecosystem, build relationships with top-tier VCs and their startups, create a Brex community in these verticals, at a national level. You will be active in-market, bring in new business and host your own events / programming.

Where you'll work

This role will be based in our New York City office. You must be willing to work in office at least 2 days per week on Wednesday and Thursday. Employees will be able to work remotely for up to 4 weeks per year.

Responsibilities

• Drive top-of-funnel customer acquisition at the Pre-seed to Series B for the Bio and Healthcare verticals through in-market sales, partnerships, relationship-building, and community and events


• Prioritize their time in-market in top-tier Bio and Healthcare geos, with top-tier founders and VCs, in an effort to build and maintain credibility, rapport and relationships


• Manage all assigned sales channels in these verticals


• Cross-sell through credibility, rapport, relationships, content marketing and by simply executing for founders and VCs on "the ask," Brex-related or not


• Have influence and affect influence by serving as an unbiased, reliable resource for startup financial advice


• Understand, empathize with and advise founders on their needs across financial products, banks, capital (debt and equity) and talent (first finance hires), through good times and bad


• Advocate for startups externally and internally; customers feel you have their back and also feel connected to Brex and our product, through you    


• Build a network that top-tier founders and VCs want to be a part of and leverage


• Be the respected brand and face of Brex for Startups in-market; this is an honor and a privilege, not a right


• Travel and build strong relationship in key startup geos:  SF, NYC, Boston, San Diego, LA, etc


• Leverage in person event to build community and develop business opportunities


• Leverage your own content to establish reputation and develop business opportunities

Requirements

• 4+ years working in venture capital, at a startup or in other partnership roles in Bio and Healthcare


• Location: This is a hybrid role, as you will physically be in-market and need to be based in one of these two cities: the SF Bay Area or New York


• Experience carrying sales quota


• Ability and willingness to travel up to 25-40% of your time to key startup goes and in-market


• Experience working with VCs and Founders


• Community building experience


• Established startup network in your geography


• Self-starter with strong leadership, intellectual curiosity, analytical, sales, and collaboration skills


• Goal-oriented, driven, and experienced in networking and influencing decision makers


• Proven track record of hitting and exceeding quotas

Compensation

The expected OTE range for this role is $194,360 - $242,950. The starting wage will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. The OTE figure listed here includes base salary and commissions, which may or may not be earned depending on performance.  Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.