
Business Development Executive
with CoGrammar
At a glance
CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in August 2018.
Salary: £30-£50,000 depending on experience
Market: Education Tech
Stage: Hyper Growth
Company size: 20+
Office: Shoreditch / Open to remote working
Founded: 2017
Website > https://www.cogrammar.com/
Highlights
The
Job title:
Business Development Exectutive
Company:
CoGrammar
What they do:
CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world's leading tech education brands. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changing into fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in August 2018.
What you'll do:
In this role, you will be speaking to a range of potential clients, from small startups to fortune 500 companies who are interesting in improving their technical hiring and assessment processes.
You will play a key role in launching a new product line in the software developer assessment space, generating leads and convincing these leads to buy or trial our technical interviewing product.
Full Job Description
ABOUT US
CoGrammar is recognised as one of the top edtech startups in Europe, Middle East, and Africa and in 2016 won first prize in Facebook's Innovation Challenge, gaining financial backing from both Facebook and Google. CoGrammar was originally launched from the University of Cambridge by Computer Science graduates and our senior leadership comprises of world-leading talent out of places such as Google, Amazon, Groupon, and 2U.
We're a people-first company with a purpose that underlines everything we do. We're obsessed with the potential in people and challenge them to do their best work. We embrace a culture of growth and learning to deliver on our vision and ours is a relentless quest for improvement.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for team members to join a company that is already recognised as one of the top education technology startups in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Our team consists of former Google and Amazon employees who have scaled products to hundreds of thousands of users, and we are looking for team members who are competitive, ambitious and have a track record of over-achieving and exceeding targets.
In this role, you will be speaking to a range of potential clients, from small startups to fortune 500 companies who are interesting in improving their technical hiring and assessment processes.
You will play a key role in launching a new product line in the software developer assessment space, generating leads and convincing these leads to buy or trial our technical interviewing product.
As the first BDE in our B2B division, you will be in a position of responsibility within the team, with substantial growth opportunities. You should be excited about not just working hard in a small but rapidly growing startup, but in building it too. You must be hungry to convert prospects into clients and know that our interviews can change the face of technical hiring globally. You must be ambitious and want to make the most of the tremendous opportunities you'll have being a core part of a small but fast-growing team.
Why chose CoGrammar
You will be joining a high performance, culturally diverse team who believe in cross collaboration and teamwork. Working in a brand new, independent, division of the company, you will have all the benefits of working in a small startup, while having the stability of working in an established company.
Our 4 core values speak volumes about who we are as a company:
* Purpose First - What we do is greater than ourselves. We are paving new roads to bring new technology into the world. We change lives.
* Progress Always - We are always learning, improving, collaborating, and setting new standards.
* Problem Solving - We are scrappy and maximise our resources. We are entrepreneurial and innovative under pressure. We do not break or give up.
* People Forward - People are the heart of what we do and why we do it. We talk as much as we listen, and know the value in every person above technology.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Generate leads and populate these into our CRM
* Guide customers through our product options and explain how this can help them
* Provide quantitative and qualitative feedback on leads
* Contributing to process improvements throughout the start-up
* Paying attention to competitors and their activities within the technical assessments space
* Identifying opportunities for new business within the market
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
* One+ years of professional, full-time sales experience in a lead generation sales role
* Excellent with technology
* Prior experience working with CRMs
* Ability to craft and maintain sales CRM systems, spreadsheets, and collate market data
* Fast learner, meticulous attention to detail
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Meticulous attention to detail
* A problem-solving and positive attitude
* Start-up mentality and the desire to see CoGrammar succeed
* An interest in the the technical assessment and recruitment space
DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS
* Prior experience selling into the technical assessments or recruitment space
* Understanding of software development and technical assessing
* Diploma or Bachelor's Degree