Director of Business Development, Encord
+ Equity & commission
4 days a week in office
Data platform for AI training
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Data platform for AI training
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity & commission
4 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve AI alignment by tackling the real bottleneck: data quality.
Role
Who you are
- You’re ambitious and hard-working, and will succeed at whatever you put your mind to. You make up for any potential lack of experience with intelligence, grit, and a constant growth and solutions mindset
- You have natural hustle and know how to get people on your side. You are hungry for an entrepreneurial & high impact journey, and derive energy from building meaningful relationships and setting & achieving lofty goals
- You get bored when things don’t move fast or when you can’t have an outsized impact
What the job involves
- You’ll be the driving force behind Encord’s growth, building out our sourcing motion and leading a top team of Commercial Associates and BDRs. You will be obsessively focused on making sure the leading AI teams – from exciting growth-stage startups to F500 organizations – know how Encord can help them bring their AI applications to market, and why they should choose to work with us
- The majority of your time will be spent on:
- Owning and building out our pipe generation machine. You will work closely with our Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success leadership as well as Encord’s co-founders to take our outbound motion to the next level. You’ll be balancing scaling what's been working with experimenting and finding new growth curves for us to grow on (think new campaigns to run, new messaging to test, new growth hacks to experiment with)
- Leading and mentoring top talent. Our Commercial Associate and BDR team is ambitious, hungry to win, and extremely talented. And when they set their mind on a prospect, they rarely struggle to book a meeting. You’ll work with the team on product and sales enablement, consistent coaching, and growth-path support, ensuring we keep retaining, developing, and scaling the team as we grow
- We have big goals, and you’ll have the autonomy to build the engine and team to continue to achieve our targets
Our take
It has become increasingly clear that the next generation of AI applications will be driven by data-centric approaches concentrated around training data creation, management, and evaluation. Crucial within this process is the annotation or 'labelling' of data. Traditionally, such annotation has been left to human workers, which has historically made this part of the process of AI development expensive, slow, and difficult to scale.
Encord offers a computer vision annotation platform that automates a number of manual labelling tasks. Its suite of tools is designed for collaboration across roles and teams, from domain-expert annotators to project managers and machine learning engineers. This allows companies to iterate 10x faster and develop and deploy high-performing models in less time whilst saving on annotation costs.
Demand is clearly there: since its launch in 2020, Encord has facilitated the annotation of more than 250 million frames and images and served customers in verticals such as medical imaging, smart cities, sports analytics and satellite imaging. It was awarded $44.3 million in Series C funding in 2026, which will help it scale and meet demand for its AI-native data infrastructure. Indeed, usage is scaling rapidly, with the number of labels generated on the platform growing ~70% month-over-month.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$60m
SERIES C
Aug 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $107.2m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup
- Strong in-person culture: 3–5 days/week in our London, SF, and NYC offices
- Flexible PTO to fully recharge
- Annual learning & development budget
- Frequent travel opportunities across the U.S., London, and Europe
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials
- Company lunches twice a week
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
Company HQ
North Beach, San Francisco
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Leadership
Eric Landau
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)With MScs from Harvard and Stanford, Eric spent 8+ years as a senior quant at DRW deploying ML at scale—before co-founding Encord to make data the core of AI development.
Ulrik Stig Hansen
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Ulrik spent 3+ years in Sales & Trading at J.P. Morgan and holds science master’s degrees from UCL and Imperial—before co-founding Encord to transform how AI handles data.
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