Business Development Associate

⚡ ASSOCIATE ⚡

📅 Start Date(s): January 19th, 2027

🌎 Location: Manhattan, New York, NY 10017 ( full-time, in-office )

Ready to start a career where your ambition, communication skills, and hard work directly influence your progression and earnings?

At Levin, our Associate Academy is designed for graduates and early-career professionals looking for structured training, hands-on coaching, and a clear career path. No recruitment experience is required -we'll teach you everything you need to become a successful consultant. From day one, you'll receive structured training, ongoing coaching and mentorship, a clear performance-based progression pathway, uncapped earning potential, and real responsibility.

Who Are We?

Founded in 2019, Levin has grown from a three-person start-up into a specialist technology recruitment business operating across FinTech, HealthTech, and Energy & Infrastructure through our brands Storm2, Storm3, and Storm4. We connect some of the world's fastest-growing technology companies with exceptional talent, while building exceptional careers for our people.

Our mission is to connect high-growth technology companies with the talent they need to scale. To do that, we invest heavily in our Associates through structured training, hands-on coaching, recruitment technology, and clear progression pathways. Every one of our top performers started their career at Levin as an Associate and progressed through the business.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As an Associate, you’ll learn the full 360 recruitment process from start to finish. This means building relationships with senior-level tech executives, partnering with technology companies, and managing the journey from first conversation through to successful placement. Over time, you'll develop expertise within a specialist technology market, becoming a trusted consultant to both clients and candidates.

You’ll be trained to:

• Find and engage top talent using LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, CRM tools, market mapping, and phone outreach.
• Build client relationships with hiring leaders at technology companies, understanding their talent needs and showcasing how Levin can help solve their hiring challenges.
• Manage the end-to-end recruitment process by acting as a trusted advisor, providing market insight, coordinating interviews, supporting candidate preparation, and delivering successful hiring outcomes.
• Develop commercial skills across business development, negotiation, account management, and market research, using those insights to build strong client partnerships and support successful hiring.

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for recent or upcoming graduates, ideally from the Classes of 2023–2026, who are excited to build a career in a fast-paced, people-focused, commercial environment.

You could be a great fit if you are:

• Ambitious, resilient, and motivated by clear goals
• A confident communicator who enjoys building relationships
• Curious about business, technology, sales, or people
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, target-driven, high-energy office environment
• Excited by performance-based progression and earning potential
• Coachable, self-motivated, and open to feedback
• Comfortable learning new technologies and proactively using tools such as Outlook, Teams, and other workplace platforms
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities

No prior recruitment experience is required - sales, customer service, leadership, athletics, hospitality, fundraising, or campus involvement can all be relevant experience.

What We Offer:

Compensation & benefits:

• $55,000 base salary, non-exempt, plus uncapped commission (expected first year OTE: $70,000-$75,000+; top performers: $100,000+)
• Performance-based promotions, with first promotion typically around 10–12 months, top 3 performers to Management (3rd promotion) in 18 months
• 401K, Health and Dental Insurance, FSA & Commuter Benefits
• 20 vacation days, 9 national holidays, company-wide shutdown between Christmas and New Year, Corporate Social Responsibility day, and birthday off
• Working hours: 9am-6pm Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm Friday
• Wednesday WFH after your first four weeks
• Gym discounts through WellHub from day 1
• Performance-based relocation opportunities and potential equity for top performers
• Employee Resource Groups: Parity and Nexus
• Target-based incentives: international vacations, amazing restaurants, group activities, & more!
• Levin Ambassadors Initiative (early mentorship opportunity)

Interested In Applying?

📧 Simply select the vacancy with the start date that is most applicable to you to access the questionnaire (it should take you about 5 mins to complete)

Levin is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and succeed. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are happy to provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.