Senior Business Development Manager, BigCommerce
1-2 days a week in office
Open SaaS ecommerce platform
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Open SaaS ecommerce platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help merchants sell more at every stage of business growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses, to large enterprises.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of relevant post-undergraduate experience within a professional services environment; management consulting, investment banking and corporate finance backgrounds are a plus
- High degree of intellectual curiosity
- Self-starter who is comfortable working with independently and as part of a team
- High proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong project management skills
- Comfortable working in a diverse global team across time zones
- Able to work on a hybrid schedule with 1-2 days per week in the office
- Travel Flexible - Ability to travel domestically or internationally as needed (10-15%)
What the job involves
- Voted a Great Place to Work, BigCommerce, a market-leading ecommerce platform, is looking for a Business Development Manager
- Combining enterprise functionality, an open architecture and app ecosystem, and market-leading performance, BigCommerce enables businesses to grow online sales with 80% less cost, time and complexity than on-premise software
- BigCommerce powers B2B and B2C ecommerce for more than 60,000 SMBs, 2,000+ mid-market businesses, more than 25 Fortune 1000 companies, and industry-leading brands including: Brompton, Harvey Nichols, Molton Brown and White Stuff
- Reporting to our SVP of Strategic Business Development, the Senior Business Development Manager will support new business initiatives within the Strategic Business Development team at BigCommerce
- This is a dynamic role responsible for supporting net new commercial opportunities which fulfill BigCommerce’s strategic objectives. Example initiatives include reseller opportunities, non-traditional partnerships and product M&A
- Work closely with senior members of the Strategic Business Development team whose objective is to identify and progress net new business opportunities for BigCommerce
- Act as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders to progress opportunity evaluation and contracts
- Conduct detailed analysis including on total addressable market and ideal customer profile overlaps for potential new business opportunities
- Work collaboratively with a cross-functional group of colleagues in sales, product, marketing and legal to drive positive business outcomes
- Represent BigCommerce at industry and partner events with a goal of identifying new areas of opportunity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
SaaS eCommerce platform BigCommerce is taking full advantage of the recent shift towards online shopping with its software that helps businesses of all sizes build and run eCommerce sites. Aside from providing a template for stores with functions including shipping and payment tracking, it also provides tools to cross-sell on other markets such as Amazon.
BigCommerce competes in this space with Shopify, another major eCommerce provider. While both companies have their adherents, BigCommerce's competitive advantage is in the sheer range of built-in features provided to its customers and the transparency of its pricing structure. While it can be more complicated to learn its flexibility is prized by the customers who have mastered its features. These include major brands such as Ted Baker, Skullcandy and Burrow to name just a few.
BigCommerce went public in 2020 with a valuation of almost $7 billion. Since then it has expanded aggressively into Europe and the Latin American market, including closing partnerships which enable BigCommerce vendors to sell on Mercado Libre. It is currently focusing on developing its enterprise offering as part of a shift towards profitability rather than continued market expansion as it seeks to navigate through the tricky economic situation for global eCommerce retailers in 2023.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Apr 2018
$64m
SERIES F
May 2016
$30m
SERIES E
Total funding: $219.2m
Company values
- Customers First: Our company exists to help merchants sell more. We make every decision and measure every outcome based on how well it serves our customers
- Think Big: Being the world's leading commerce platform requires unrivaled vision, innovation and execution. We never settle. We challenge our ideas of what’s possible to better meet the needs of our customers
- Make a Difference Every Day: We constantly push ourselves to be our best. We focus on solutions and arrive every day inspired to make an impact through our talents, passion and hard work
- Team on a Mission: BigCommerce is made up of amazing individuals, but it’s only through teamwork that we achieve greatness. We’re committed to helping our customers by working together with equal parts humility and ambition
- Act with Integrity: We’re honest, transparent and committed to doing what’s best for our customers and our company. We openly collaborate in pursuit of the truth. We have no tolerance for politics, hidden agendas or passive-aggressive behavior
Company HQ
Four Points Centre, Austin, TX
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Leadership
Brent Bellm
(CEO, not founder)Before taking the role of CEO at BigCommerce in 2015, they were the COO at HomeAway and VP Global Product for PayPal.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce
- We foster a culture that encourages the inclusion of every employee by celebrating our individuality and our common values that bring us together. We strive to create an environment in which all employees can bring their whole, best, authentic selves to work and for everyone to feel a sense of acceptance and encouragement to come as they are
- Our differences make us unique and create the diversity we value. We commit to creating an environment where each of us is treated with response and dignity and the expression of each individual's perspective, thoughts and ideas is encouraged
- Greatness is inherent in all people, no matter their demographic background or personal experiences. We will take action to ensure that every individual has an equal opportunity to grow and achieve their maximum potential
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