Business Development Manager @ The Boring Company

Business Development Manager

Posted on 11/17/2022

INACTIVE

Locations

Austin, TX, USA

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Marketing

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
5+ years of relevant experience securing bids in the tunneling industry
3+ year(s) of experience engaging and negotiating with government entities
3+ year(s) of marketing experience
3+ year(s) managing a team
Strategic thinker with innate ability to identify bottlenecks and develop solutions
Strong persuasion and negotiation abilities
Ability to analyze others' reactions and understand why they react as they do
Effective communicator with exemplary presentation skills
Natural ability to network and forge relationships
Ability to interpret market, customer, and competitor information
Position may require long hours and weekend work
Travel 25-35% of the time

Responsibilities

Build and maintain relationships with clients. Maintain a high quality customer database
Identify active requests for proposals in the United States for tunneling projects (water, sewer, and transport) and non-tunneling projects that could become tunneling projects
Create new revenue-generating tunnel projects for The Boring Company by persuading key stakeholders that a TBC tunnel meets their needs
Help write, review, and submit proposals to local, state, and federal entities
Lead company business development efforts

The Boring Company was founded to solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic by creating an underground network of tunnels. Today, we are creating the technology to increase tunneling speed and decrease costs by a factor of 10 or more with the ultimate goal of making Hyperloop adoption viable and enabling rapid transit across densely populated regions.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain relationships with clients. Maintain a high quality customer database.
Identify active requests for proposals in the United States for tunneling projects (water, sewer, and transport) and non-tunneling projects that could become tunneling projects.
Create new revenue-generating tunnel projects for The Boring Company by persuading key stakeholders that a TBC tunnel meets their needs.
Help write, review, and submit proposals to local, state, and federal entities.
Lead company business development efforts.

Basic Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree.
5+ years of relevant experience securing bids in the tunneling industry.

Preferred Skills and Experience

3+ year(s) of experience engaging and negotiating with government entities.
3+ year(s) of marketing experience.
3+ year(s) managing a team.
Strategic thinker with innate ability to identify bottlenecks and develop solutions.
Strong persuasion and negotiation abilities.
Ability to analyze others’ reactions and understand why they react as they do.
Effective communicator with exemplary presentation skills.
Natural ability to network and forge relationships.
Ability to interpret market, customer, and competitor information.

Additional Requirements

Position may require long hours and weekend work.
Travel 25-35% of the time.

Culture

We’re a team of dedicated, smart, and scrappy people. Our employees are passionate about our mission and determined to innovate at every opportunity.

Benefits

We offer employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacation, and a competitive amount of equity for all permanent employees.

The Boring Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with The Boring Company is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

51-200 employees

Website

Underground transportation networks & development

Company Overview

The Boring Company’s mission is to solve traffic, enable rapid point-to-point transportation and transform cities. The company is committed to building tomorrow’s transportation network by creating safe, fast-to-dig, and low-cost transportation, utility, and freight tunnels to ultimately enable rapid transit across densely populated regions.

Benefits

Medical, dental, & vision coverage
401(k)
Paid holidays
Paid vacation
Competitive equity

Company Core Values

Dedicated
Smart
Scrappy