Plaid

Business Development Representative - Fintech

Plaid$80K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1-3 years in pipeline development/sales, ideally at a SaaS or FinTech company.
  • Experience engaging with tech-focused founders and engineering leaders.
  • Ability to communicate Plaid's value clearly to prospective clients.
  • Comfortable in high-volume, fast-paced environments.
  • Resilient and determined in competitive market situations.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce.com or similar CRM systems.
  • Technical aptitude with APIs and eagerness to explore Plaid's product offerings.

Responsibilities

  • Support Account Executives in hunting new business in the FinTech sector.
  • Collaborate with Marketing on fintech-focused campaigns and outbound strategies.
  • Identify and build pipelines through targeted outreach to fintech leadership.
  • Assist new clients in onboarding and address technical inquiries regarding API integration.
  • Spot emerging fintech trends and sub-verticals to enhance revenue opportunities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) retirement plan options.
  • Equity and commission-based compensation structures.
Full Job Description
Youll be the one helping us achieve this vision. As a New Business Representative for our FinTech segment, youll forge the path to finding new clients and prospecting digital-native fintechs, neobanks, alternative lending platforms, and personal finance applications for us to target. We are looking for extraordinary sales professionals with SaaS/tech and/or outbound selling experience who can demonstrate the added value of Plaid and what impact our API suite can have on supercharging a fintechs growth, security, and user experience.

In this role, you will be responsible for organizational mapping, prospecting individuals, driving engagement, setting opportunities for AEs, taking qualification calls, and nurturing early opportunities. The ideal candidate is customer-centric, resilient, challenges the status quo, and has a deep passion for advancing their career at the intersection of tech and finance.

Responsibilities
  • Acting as a key member of the Plaid GTM Team, supporting several Account Executives hunting new business within the fast-paced FinTech ecosystem.
  • Liaising with Marketing to provide feedback on fintech-specific campaigns and designing new, cutting-edge outbound efforts.
  • Identifying prospects and building pipelines through outbound campaigns targeted at fintech founders, heads of engineering, and product leaders.
  • Helping new clients get started with Plaid and answering technical questions about how our APIs integrate into their existing stacks.
  • Identifying emerging fintech trends, business models, and sub-verticals (e.g., embedded finance, Web3, alternative underwriting) to help drive increased revenue opportunity.


Qualifications
  • 1-3 years of experience in pipeline development and/or sales (preferably at a SaaS, Fintech, or developer-first tech company).
  • Leading high-level conversations with tech-savvy founders, product managers, and engineering stakeholders.
  • The ability to evangelize Plaids value proposition in order to assess buying interest from fast-moving, digital-first innovators.
  • The ability to thrive in a high customer volume, time-sensitive environment.
  • Having a relentless mindset and an unwillingness to quit when penetrating competitive markets.
  • Proficiency in using Salesforce.com or other CRM.
  • Experience working with customers and explaining deeply technical products. Strong interest in the broader fintech landscape, startup funding trends, and API architecture; a high degree of intellectual curiosity.
  • Excitement to work in a high-growth environment and to help build agile processes and tools as needed.
  • Desire to get (more) technical and the ability to master the ins and outs of Plaids entire developer ecosystem (including Auth, Balance, Identity, Income, and Signal).

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesnt fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidates work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

About Plaid

Plaid is a financial services company based in New York City. The company builds a technology platform, which enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. Plaid focuses on enabling consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through financial technology applications. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey. In January 2020, Visa announced that it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. The acquisition was completed in January 2021.
Learn more about Plaid
Size
600 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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