Founding New Business Lead
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- Full-time
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About the role
New Business Lead
TL;DR: We're looking for a founding New Business Lead to own outbound, build pipeline, and help us crack open the $600B+ staffing industry.
About Ropes
Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent, starting with a fundamentally better technical interview. We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the best employers in the world.
Company highlights:
Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 9 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics
Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more
Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers including the largest staffing firm in the world
Market opportunity: Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up
What You'll Do:
Partner with leadership to experiment with new channels, messaging, and GTM plays
Own outbound prospecting to staffing and recruiting firms, from initial research to booking qualified meetings
Build and refine target account lists, identifying the right companies and the right people within them
Craft personalized outreach that cuts through the noise and speaks to real pain points in technical hiring
Who You Are:
You're more interested in earning equity and impact than climbing a predetermined ladder
You have 1 to 3 years of experience in sales, business development, or a high-volume outbound role
You're relentless about hitting activity targets and genuinely enjoy the hunt
You're coachable, competitive, and energized by working in a fast-paced environment
Why Ropes:
Early impact: Join as one of the first sales hires and help define how we go to market
Ownership: You won't be a cog in a machine. You'll have direct input on messaging, targeting, and process
Growth trajectory: High performers will have a clear path to closing roles as the team scales
This is an on-site role in New York City, designed for hungry salespeople who want to build something from scratch.
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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