Senior Business Development Executive

Who you are

• Experience: 3+ years of B2B sales or deal-sourcing experience within financial tech, venture capital, investment banking, or high-growth SaaS environments
• Ecosystem Expertise: Strong familiarity with one or more of the following is preferred: the start-up and later-stage venture ecosystem, cap tables, capital structure, and secondary liquidity mechanics
• Strategic Selling: Proven track record of pitching to C-level decision-makers, navigating multi-stakeholder deals, and consistently exceeding sales targets
• Process-Driven Mindset: High comfort level managing complex, multi-month sales cycles while keeping Hubspot pipeline data immaculate

What the job involves

• What You Will Be Doing We are looking for an ambitious Senior Business Development Executive to join our Commercial team, targeting high-growth, Series A to pre-IPO businesses across Europe
• You will drive revenue by pitching our dual value proposition: raising primary capital and executing structured secondary liquidity rounds for scaling companies
• Deal Sourcing & Pipeline Management: Proactively identify, pitch, and win high-prospect, often venture-backed startups, scale-ups, and later-stage companies
• Capital & Liquidity Strategy: Partner with C-suite executives, founders, and institutional backers to deliver tailored capital-raising strategies and secondary share sales
• Ecosystem Engagement: Build direct relationships with venture capital firms, corporate advisors, and legal partners across the UK and European startup and private market ecosystem
• Full-Cycle Execution: Manage the commercial sales cycle from initial outbound outreach to high-level negotiations, closing agreements, and handing off to operational execution teams
• Market Intelligence: Work with marketing and sales enablement to track funding rounds, venture trends, and secondary market developments to position Crowdcube as the leading private market partner

The application process

• Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, an interview with the hiring manager and a task, followed by a final interview with other members of the team
• There aren't any trick questions and the task will typically be based on a real scenario the team have worked on

Benefits

• Cycle-to-work scheme
• £1,000 budget for learning and development
• Share Options
• Volunteer Hours
• Additional Holiday for Tenure
• Flexible Working Policy
• 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance