Full-Time
Business Development Manager
Sales
Updated on 9/4/2026
Pion
11-50 employees
Gen Z marketing technology company
No salary listed
Remote in UK + 1 more
More locations: London, UK
Remote
Occasional travel to UK clients is required.
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- Proven experience managing the full sales cycle, including discovery, negotiation, and confidently closing new business with brands.
- A track record of bringing new brands or partners on board, ideally in a fast-moving commercial or partnership-driven environment.
- Understanding of the affiliate ecosystem, including affiliate networks, publishers, and partner models, and how these channels support scalable revenue.
- A strong commercial drive with a business-first mindset focused on long-term value creation, multi-faceted deals, and sustainable revenue.
- The resilience, pace, and discipline needed to consistently hit and exceed targets in a high-growth environment.
- More senior business development or sales experience.
- Experience bringing in over £1 million of revenue.
- Experience dealing with complex deals and multi-threading.
- Experience using artificial intelligence tools in a business development or sales context, including Claude, Salesforce, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
- Experience using the MEDDIC sales methodology, with strong sales forecasting capability.
- Willingness to travel occasionally to clients in the United Kingdom.
- Own the full sales cycle from prospecting to close, including discovery calls, value articulation, proposal development, negotiation, and deal closing.
- Build and nurture relationships with target brands, affiliate networks, and industry partners through events, direct meetings, webinars, and outbound outreach supported by marketing inbound channels.
- Drive pipeline growth and quality by managing what enters the funnel and ensuring strong conversion.
- Execute a targeted outreach strategy from a defined hit list of priority brands while acting as a proactive lead generator and trusted commercial advisor to prospects.
- Represent the business externally by attending events, travelling to clients when needed, leveraging deep industry understanding to identify opportunities, surfacing benefits, and collaborating cross-functionally to land new partnerships.
- A track record of bringing new brands or partners on board in a fast-moving commercial or partnership-driven environment.
Pion is a marketing technology company focused on student and Gen Z audiences. The company operates platforms and services for brand partnerships, creator marketing, consumer offers, research, and youth-focused acquisition. It serves brands seeking to understand, reach, and retain younger consumers. Its operating model centers on technology products combined with media, partnerships, data, and campaign services. Teams work across product, engineering, data, sales, partnerships, marketing, research, and customer success. The organization combines youth marketing technology expertise with practical delivery for consumer brands.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2013
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- VCAT served over 100,000 brands, proving repeat demand and distribution depth.
- August 31, 2026 GEO Agent expanded to 50-plus commerce brands quickly.
- Creagen launched October 29, 2025, then upgraded March 3, 2026, showing product velocity.
What critics are saying
- Adtech rivals VPLATE and Adriel commoditize AI creative, compressing pricing by 2026.
- Pion depends on URL-based automation; platform changes from Google or Naver break outputs.
- If AI search referral traffic shifts, VCAT GEO adoption stalls and revenue concentration bites.
What makes Pion unique
- Pion’s VCAT automates ad creative from URLs, producing 1 million creatives annually.
- Creagen unifies AI content production, compliance, and approvals inside marketing workflows.
- VCAT GEO Agent reads websites without code rewrites, targeting Google, Naver, and ChatGPT.
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Benefits
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
Paid Vacation
Paid Holidays
Home Office Stipend
Wellness Program
Mental Health Support
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