Business Development Associate

at  Hyperspace Ventures

QUALIFICATIONS

• Willingness to reach out to businesses
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results. Ability to effectively lead and work with a variety of organizations, management levels, cultures, and personalities.
• Exceptional interpersonal, collaboration, and communication (both written and verbal) skills. Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple teams

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Serve as a key member of the Hyperspace Ventures team by helping drive overall market and technical strategy.
• Identify key professionals with infrastructure needs, and drive engagement with those organizations.
• Execute the strategic business development plan while working with key internal stakeholders (e.g. commercial startup team, sales teams, marketing, legal, support, etc.)
• Work closely with the companies to ensure they are successful using our web services while also making sure they have the technical resources required.
• Implement and manage reporting systems to track the effectiveness of the efforts to target the companies in the portfolios of firms.
• Prepare and give business reviews to the management team regarding progress and roadblocks to establishing new engagements.
• Handle a high volume of engagements and the fast pace of the website design & development market
• Be comfortable with cold calling businesses

As a business development specialist, you will have the exciting opportunity to help shape and deliver on a strategy to build mind share and broad use of Hyperspace Venture’s platform within global professional communities. Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying appropriate companies to target
• Developing a leveraged, differentiated and distributed strategy that allows Hyperspace Ventures to deliver appropriate value to potential clients across the world
• Setting up meetings for the sales team by cold calling potential clients
• Engaging with potential clients during the initial stages of the discovery process
• Driving the necessary business, strategic and technical relationships to establish new business in those accounts
• Working closely with the Hyperspace Ventures sales team to drive the day-to-day interactions with the portfolio companies in order to build long-term business opportunity.
• You’ll also work closely with the Hyperspace Ventures strategic corporate development, business development, product management and support teams on strategic initiatives that tie into the professional community