Business Development Representative (Enterprise)
About this role
- Exceptional customer curiosity: You have a genuine interest in learning about the clients we serve, their goals, and their science communication pain points. You are curious, love asking questions, and can think outside of the box.
- A continuous improvement approach: You have a growth mindset and you’re open to coaching and continuous feedback. You are able to thrive in a fast-paced and collaborative environment with changing goals and priorities.
- A self-starter attitude: You are hunter, self-motivated, resourceful, and know how to hustle.
- Strong organization and attention to detail: You can manage multiple priorities, keep accurate records, and follow through on tasks meticulously to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Lead Generation & Pipeline Development: Focus on identifying current BioRender users as well as generating new leads through various methods to target Top 30 pharma accounts
- Relationship Building: Engage with senior executives (C-level leaders) to develop meaningful relationships that contribute to sales growth
- Sales Process Management: Manage the initial stages of the sales cycle by prospecting and qualifying leads and passing them on to Senior Account Executives and Enterprise Customer Success Managers
- Collaboration with Internal Teams: Work closely with sales, marketing, and business development teams to execute effective outreach strategies
- Performance Tracking: Use data tools to analyze performance metrics and optimize outreach efforts, ensuring that strategies align with business goals
- Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a related field (e.g., biology, biotechnology, or similar)
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to engage senior-level executives
- Track record of consistently meeting or exceeding targets, with a strong focus on results
- Highly self-motivated, adaptable, and able to operate autonomously while managing multiple priorities effectively. This will be assessed during the interview.
- Exceptionally organized and detail oriented, with a clear and structured approach to managing outreach and pipeline activities.
- You love running discovery calls. You can ask the tough questions, find pain and connect the value of the product to solve those customer problems
- Fearless approach to cold outreach, with a proven ability to make high-volume calls and initiate client relationships
- Experience in a Business Development or Sales role, ideally within a SaaS or B2B environment
- Experience working with enterprise clients
- Experience prospecting into outbound leads through cold calling, email, and LinkedIn outreach to generate new business opportunities
- Strong working knowledge of ZoomInfo, building lead lists and finding the right contacts/leads
Why join us?
- We are mission-driven: we work collaboratively towards our shared vision of improving scientific communication and accelerating scientific discovery. BioRender figures have appeared in more than 54,000 publications!
- BioRender is loved by millions: We have a world-class NPS and a community of loyal fans and users in 200+ countries!
- Our company is backed by top investors and accelerators like Y Combinator, and we are on a growth trajectory comparable to many top-performing SaaS companies
- We’re remote-first with team members across Canada and the U.S., offering you the flexibility to work from anywhere.
Company at a glance
BioRender is a Toronto-based startup founded in 2017 by Shiz Aoki, Katya Shteyn, and Ryan Marien with a mission to accelerate science by empowering all scientists to quickly and easily communicate their research. The company has built a comprehensive library of icons and templates spanning over 30 fields of biology, positioning itself as the Adobe or Canva for science. BioRender is backed by Y Combinator and other investors, and has grown to serve users in over 100 countries worldwide. Led by CEO and Co-founder Shiz Aoki, who previously served as Lead Medical Illustrator for National Geographic, the company combines scientific expertise with design innovation to make scientific visualization accessible to researchers globally.
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