Business Development Manager

About Billd 

Billd is a fast-growing fintech company looking to disrupt a $1.5 trillion industry. We offer first-of-its-kind, industry-leading financial and technology products to empower our customers, commercial subcontractors. We believe in championing the underdog because no one else does.

You will be challenged to bring your best self to Billd and guaranteed to have the most professionally rewarding experiences of your career. We pride our team on being focused, relentless, and driven, but never take ourselves too seriously and love having fun.

As a rapidly growing company, we offer several opportunities for internal growth and career development. We’re committed to the motivated professionals that work at Billd, but don’t just take our word for it. Check out our 4.3 Glassdoor rating to see what our team has to say about working here. 

But the praise doesn’t stop there. Some of our awards include: 

• 4x Top Private Companies award winner (Austin Business Journal)

• 3x Fastest Growing Companies award winner (Austin Business Journal)
• 3x Top Technology Firm (Construction Executive Magazine)
• 2x Top Tech Employer in Austin (Austin Business Journal)
• 2x Best Places to Work (Forbes, BuiltIn)
• 1x Best CEO Nomination (Austin Business Journal)

We call our Austin, TX, headquarters home and have a hybrid work model that allows employees the flexibility to work from home one day per week. Our dog-friendly office is centrally located north of downtown and features a fully stocked kitchen, on-site fitness room, and hosts quarterly company-wide team events. 

The Role

We are looking for a dynamic, high-performing Business Development Manager to own Billd’s supplier channel.  The ideal person has experience selling into commercial building material suppliers and/or developing sales channels (with a focus on driving customer acquisition).  This role will be responsible for acquiring new partner suppliers, deepening relationships with existing partner suppliers, and ensuring the channel delivers on customer acquisition targets. The ideal candidate has a history of exceeding sales quotas, building channel sales partnerships, and loves the challenges that come with standing up a new partnership channel. This person will be the face of the Billd brand to suppliers and will own all aspects of building out the supplier channel.  Experience in construction and finance is preferred.

What You’ll Do 

• Prospect, onboard, and manage relationships with building material suppliers from $10M - $5B in annual revenue (target profile is $50-500M)
• Lead negotiations with C-level executives (at the supplier) and handle all contract management
• Work hand in hand with Billd Sales Development Representatives and Territory Managers to ensure contractor referrals (from suppliers) properly flow through the Billd sales funnel and result in new Billd customers
• Develop marketing and sales strategies to drive contractor referrals from partner suppliers
• Conduct both in-person and virtual demos to activate supplier partnerships.
• Review and manage ongoing supplier deal flow including pipeline reviews with sales and operations executives
• Consistently provide product feedback internally to facilitate the evolution of Billd’s supplier channel
• Work cross-functionally as a part of the Billd team in areas such as marketing, sales, product, finance, and legal
• Approximately 10% travel required

Skills and Qualifications

• 7-10  years of channel sales or business development experience 
• Ability to thrive in an environment of high ambiguity and change
• Must have a competitive drive and persevere to consistently achieve excellence and overcome adversity
• Must be a self starter and continuously invest in self development and learning
• Experience selling financial services products to building material suppliers is preferred
• Familiarity with technology tools such as Salesforce, Outreach and Slack is preferred

Billd is committed to diversity and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.