Founding Business Development Manager
At a glance
Mid-level Business Development role at Flagright. London · full-time.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and performance-manage two BDRs across EMEA and APAC, covering activity, conversion, and pipeline goals
- Hire and ramp new BDRs from role definition and sourcing through interviews, onboarding, and early development
- Shape outbound execution across segmentation, regional and persona messaging, sequences, and qualification rules
- Coordinate territories and verticals, then forecast pipeline creation and share results with the founders
- Align Sales and Marketing on handoffs, service levels, campaign follow-up, and frontline feedback
What you bring
- At least five years in B2B SaaS business or sales development, including two years managing BDR or SDR teams
- Experience building or scaling at a startup or scale-up with fewer than two hundred employees
- A record of hiring and quickly ramping BDRs, plus experience leading remote teams across time zones
- Hands-on command of multi-channel outbound, sales engagement platforms, CRM tools such as HubSpot, and pipeline reporting
- Strong spoken and written English, with willingness to sell directly and lead from the front
Who this fits
You’ll suit a hands-on manager who can coach a distributed EMEA and APAC team while hiring and building the function. This is a pure people-management role with regular in-office presence in London and direct reporting to the CEO. The work favors people comfortable with ambiguity, rejection, shifting priorities, and high expectations.
From the employer
About Flagright:
Flagright is an AI operating system for financial crime compliance used globally by Fortune 500 companies, large banks, fintechs, and fast growing startups. Flagright enables real-time risk detection, automated investigations, and intelligent decisioning, helping compliance teams operate at their full potential in the fight against financial crime.
We operate as a lean, high-performance team with high individual ownership and direct access to leadership.
The Role
This is a founding leadership role. You'll take ownership of our EMEA and APAC business development function, managing a geo-distributed team with a mandate to scale it in the near term. This role requires regular in-office presence to build team knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and support the ongoing development of the BDR team. Being together in person will be key to coaching, knowledge-sharing, onboarding, and creating a strong sales excellence culture.
This is a pure team manager role where you will be responsible for performance management, coaching, talent development, hiring/firing, dispute resolution, process enforcement and success metrics.
People who thrive at Flagright:
Have been knocked down before and gotten back up
Are resourceful—they figure things out with whatever tools are available
Have strong opinions and can defend them
Are hungry to learn & contribute
Want to work with no-BS people
People who struggle here:
Need extensive hand-holding
View high expectations as “unreasonable”
Expect strict 9 to 6 boundaries
Can’t handle ambiguity or rejection
Prefer consistent routine over fast-changing priorities
Key Responsibilities:
Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of 2 BDRs across multiple regions, with day-to-day accountability for activity, conversion, and pipeline targets
Scale the team: own hiring end-to-end, from profile definition and sourcing through interviewing, onboarding, and ramp
Support the outbound playbook — ICP and account segmentation, multi-channel sequences, messaging by persona and region, and qualification standards
Design territory and vertical coverage so a global team operates as one coordinated engine, not silos
Run forecasting and reporting on pipeline generation; present performance and insights directly to founders
Partner closely with Sales and Marketing to align on handoffs, SLAs, campaign follow-up, and feedback loops from the front line to product and positioning
Set the bar on culture: instill the habits, standards, and energy of a high-performing outbound team from day one
Who we are looking for:
5+ years in business development / sales development in B2B SaaS, including 2+ years managing BDR/SDR teams
Background at a Start/Scale-up (sub 200 employees)
Experience managing remote or geo-distributed teams across time zones — you know how to keep distributed people aligned, motivated, and accountable
A track record of hiring and ramping BDRs quickly; you've grown a team before, ideally in an early-stage or scale-up environment
Strong command of modern outbound: multi-channel prospecting, sales engagement platforms, CRM (e.g., HubSpot), and data-driven pipeline management
Builder's mindset — comfortable with ambiguity, first-principles thinking, and shipping process before it's perfect
Willing and able to sell yourself: you lead from the front and stay close to the conversations
Excellent written and spoken English; additional languages a plus given the global remit
Nice to Have:
Experience selling into regulated industries (e.g., fintech, compliance, FS)
Prior "founding" or first-manager role at a startup
Experience opening new geographic markets
What we offer:
Leadership position with direct influence on Flagright’s global sales strategy
Report directly to the CEO
Product with clear, real-world differentiation
High-bar environment focused on execution, learning, and continuous improvement
Get equity from day 1 at a Y Combinator startup
Work alongside a highly competent, top-tier team, including professionals from Y Combinator, ex AWS, and Palantir
Enjoy a low-bureaucracy environment, minimal meetings, and an asynchronous communications culture
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