Senior Business Development Representative (Partner Credit Services - Funding Options)
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 in securing finance across hire purchase, leasing, unsecured loans, and other products. You will manage customer applications and vendor relationships, develop lending-partner relationships, maintain Salesforce records, monitor market trends, and clearly explain available finance options.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a sales position
- Demonstrable track record of sales success
- Experience meeting and exceeding revenue-based targets
- Ideally, experience in fintech at a brokerage or lender
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Customer service
- Organisation
- Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Ability to establish working relationships
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 in the market
- Explain finance options across multiple business-finance product classes
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date prospect information in Salesforce
- Monitor trends and add customer-profile information into Salesforce
- Keep up to date on industry, market, and competitor trends
- Share stories and successes through relevant communication channels
Benefits
- Flexible working options
- Remote work from home or anywhere in your home country under the Working Out of Office policy
- Work from a different country for 90 days per year
- Group Life Insurance
- 27 days holiday
- 3 days of volunteering time off per year
- Snacks, light food, and drinks in the office
- Enhanced family-friendly leave
- Sabbatical leave
