Director of Business Development
About Us
Riskified empowers merchants and shoppers to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. Our global team helps the world’s most-innovative eCommerce merchants eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. Merchants integrate Riskified’s machine learning platform to create trusted customer relationships, driving higher sales while reducing costs. Riskified has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and approved billions of dollars of revenue for global brands and fast-growing businesses across industries, including Wayfair, Wish, Peloton, Gucci, and many more. We're privately funded and VC backed, and our recent Series E raised $165 million with a valuation in excess of $1 billion.
About the Role
Riskified’s Growth team plays a key role in defining and executing the company’s expansion strategy. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly intelligent and motivated individual to lead a team of motivated Business Development Representatives, guiding and enabling the creation of sales opportunities.
You will work with various teams across the company in defining and executing our expansion strategy.
Essentially, you’ll be joining a global growth team of a Series E FinTech startup in hyper-growth and will be using your skills, expertise and energy to make a huge impact.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead and develop a team of driven business development professionals
- Maximize team efficiency to generate quality sales opportunities through proactive, strategic prospecting as well as researching industries and individual companies
- Work directly with our VP of Sales, VP of Business Development and leadership teams to define Business Development strategies
- Represent Riskified at industry events and meetings with potential clients
- Develop a deep understanding of the payments industry and build relationships with key players in the space
Qualifications
- Experience as a people manager - building and managing growth teams
- 2+ years of experience managing Business Development or Sales teams with complex sales cycles
- Ability to quickly understand Riskified’s suite of products and their place within the payments and eCommerce technology space
- Naturally analytical with a deep intellectual curiosity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced sales environment. This requires balancing close collaboration with colleagues and being self-directed and tenacious, while taking on a lot of different responsibilities
Life at Riskified
We are a fast-growing and dynamic startup with 600+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.
COVID-19 Update:
- Our NYC team is currently working remotely. If anyone prefers to work in our office, we’re happy to offer an option to do so safely.
- When the situation improves, we’re looking forward to adapting a hybrid of remote and in-office work for all our team members.
- We’re growing at a rapid rate and have transitioned all our interviews to Zoom.
Some of our NYC Benefits & Perks:
- Fully-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance from your first day
- Stock options for all employees, 401(k) + matching, commuter benefits
- Catered lunch, fully-stocked kitchen, team events, happy hours, birthday celebrations
- Yoga, pilates, soccer league, wellness classes
- Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact in local communities
- Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, sales bootcamp, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swag!
In The News
Fortune Magazine: 25 Best Workplaces in New York
Announcing Riskified's $165M Funding Round
Inc Magazine: Best Workplaces
Built In NYC: 100 Best Workplaces
TechCrunch: Riskified Prevents Fraud on Your Favorite eCommerce Site
Calcalist: Riskified is the Most Promising Startup
Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.