Sales Account Executive, SeedLegals

Salary not provided
Entry and Junior level
London
SeedLegals

One-stop platform for legals for startups

Open for applications

SeedLegals

One-stop platform for legals for startups

101-200 employees

B2BHRFundraisingLegalInvestingSaaSVenture Capital

Open for applications

Salary not provided
Entry and Junior level
London

101-200 employees

B2BHRFundraisingLegalInvestingSaaSVenture Capital

Company mission

To help entrepreneurship become accessible to everyone by providing founders with tools to create, build, and scale their ideas.

Role

Who you are

  • You have a track record of exceeding targets, ideally in a similar B2B sales role
  • A self-starter who also enjoys being part of a team
  • You are excited by the opportunity to interact with startup founders every day
  • You enjoy change and excel in a fast paced environment
  • You enjoy building rapport and nurturing partnerships with internal and external stakeholders
  • You enjoy learning new things quickly, and will relish the opportunity to become an expert on all SeedLegals products
  • You have exceptional people skills and are able to demonstrate your active listening skills, empathy and curiousity
  • You have a growth mindset and are always seeking to learn, improve, develop yourself
  • It would be advantageous but not essential to have a solid understanding of sales methodologies, including MEDDIC and SPIN selling, to align our value proposition to the clients needs

Desirable

  • Ideally, you are a recent grad with a background in finance, business or law, looking to start a career in sales

What the job involves

  • Liaising directly with founders and decision-makers every day from the most innovative startups to identify the perfect fundraising product and strategy for their goals
  • Effectively managing an exciting portfolio of up to 100 startups through CRM, ensuring efficient lead prioritisation and excellent communication throughout the sales cycle
  • Understanding the nuances of individual customer needs and demonstrating exactly how the SeedLegals platform can support them
  • Building strong relationships with founders and providing excellent user experience, managing them from onboarding onto the platform through to successful completion of their funding round
  • Working with wider teams in the business to proactively identify new ways to help SeedLegals grow, from product changes in line with user feedback to innovating the sales strategy
  • Building an in-depth knowledge of the UK startup and fundraising scene through regular training and exposure to serial entrepreneurs and investors

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Increasing numbers of startups are getting funded in the UK and all require legal help with their financing.

SeedLegals identified a big burning pain: no founder wants to handle a bad fundraising experience because of legals. Previously founders would have to pay a decent chunk of the money they've just worked hard to raise, but the SeedLegals platform has provided a step change in cost.

The focus on a very specific niche (startups) has meant they have built a very tailored product, and word of mouth within startups is strong.

While they primarily focus on helping companies with fundraising, they also offer additional services (e.g. option schemes), and they're in a strong position to expand their offering to other legal needs.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Strong hiring activity
Rocket List 2021
Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

40% female employees

-11% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Opportunities to learn

"I’m working with so many industry experts with a wealth of knowledge in different areas, and everyone is really happy to share their knowledge with..."

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$4m

SERIES A

Jul 2017

$1m

SEED

Total funding: $5m

Company benefits

  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Volunteer days - Up to 3 days per year
  • Private healthcare and life insurance
  • Private pension
  • Hybrid working
  • Learning, development and networking opportunities
  • Share options. You’ll be eligible for the SeedLegals performance-based share option scheme
  • Great offices with free fruit and coffee, overlooking the gorgeous gardens at Lincoln's Inn Fields
  • £250 Working-from-home allowance to set up your home office
  • Classpass
  • Lunch is on us! Up to once a week (when in the office)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • A extra day off for your birthday!

Company values

  • We are driven by customer success
  • We are committed to a growth mindset
  • We invest and trust in each other
  • We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion

Company HQ

Holborn, London, UK

Leadership

Serial entrepreneur, founded two businesses before (6tribes and Beamly) and launched BBC iPlayer

Laurent Laffy

(Chairman)

Previously Managing Partner of Arts Alliance (VC Fund) and has a Harvard MBA


People progressing

Joined as Startup Funding Associate, being promoted to CX Team Lead after 1 year

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at SeedLegals

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Michelle Keelin (Head of HR)

  • Here at SeedLegals we recognise diverse teams are more effective and solve problems more creatively. The challenge is to create an environment where individuals feel empowered to be themselves and use their diverse talents, backgrounds and characteristics to create positive outcomes for the business.
  • We believe it is critical to create psychologically safe spaces where people can voice ideas and be themselves. To ensure our employee voices and opinions are heard we created our Impact Team, built from volunteers in a variety of roles across the business, to give each person a voice and help structure policies and commitments to diversity and inclusion.
  • Adding to this, in September 2023 we launched our new values, one of them being our commitment to embracing DE&I. 'We embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion'. We commit to DE&I by building it into our hiring practices, training programs, policies, and overall culture.
  • If you would like to know more on our Values, please feel free to reach out to me and I will be happy to talk further.

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