Business Development Specialist International Sales
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will support businesses and vendors with finance products, including hire purchase, leasing, and unsecured loans. You will manage customer applications and vendor relationships, build relationships with lending partners, articulate finance options, maintain Salesforce records, monitor market trends, and achieve sales targets.
Requirements
- 2+ years of sales experience
- Track record of meeting and exceeding revenue-based targets
- Fintech experience at a brokerage or lender
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Customer service
- Organisation
- Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Salesforce
Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed sales targets
- Manage vendor relationships
- Contact, engage, and manage small-business customers through the application process
- Build and nurture relationships with commercial lending partners
- Articulate the Funding Options by Tide proposition and service
- Develop knowledge of lenders and finance products
- Explain finance options across multiple business-finance product classes
- Maintain accurate prospect information in Salesforce
- Monitor trends and add customer-profile information in Salesforce
- Keep up to date with industry, market, and competition trends
- Share stories and successes through relevant communication channels
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Remote work from home or anywhere in the home country
- Work from a different country for 90 days per year
- Group Life Insurance
- 27 days holiday
- 3 days of learning and development or volunteering time off per year
- Professional learning and development budget
- Office snacks, light food, and drinks
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- Sabbatical leave
