Business development manager in fintech

As Europe’s premier private market infrastructure and investment platform, Crowdcube connects high-growth private companies with HNW and retail investors in more than 120 countries. We provide end-to-end liquidity solutions—from later-stage primary capital raises to liquidity-generating secondary transactions for founders, early investors, and employees. We are looking for an ambitious Senior Business Development Executive to join our Commercial team, targeting high-growth, Series A to pre-IPO businesses across Europe.

• Proactively identify, pitch, and win high-prospect, often venture-backed startups, scale-ups, and later-stage companies.
• Partner with C-suite executives, founders, and institutional backers to deliver tailored capital-raising strategies and secondary share sales.
• Build direct relationships with venture capital firms, corporate advisors, and legal partners across the UK and European startup and private market ecosystem.
• Manage the commercial sales cycle from initial outbound outreach to high-level negotiations, closing agreements, and handing off to operational execution teams.
• Work with marketing and sales enablement to track funding rounds, venture trends, and secondary market developments to position Crowdcube as the leading private market partner.

• 3+ years of B2B sales or deal-sourcing experience within financial tech, venture capital, investment banking, or high-growth SaaS environments.
• Strong familiarity with one or more of the following is preferred: the start-up and later-stage venture ecosystem, cap tables, capital structure, and secondary liquidity mechanics.
• Proven track record of pitching to C-level decision-makers, navigating multi-stakeholder deals, and consistently exceeding sales targets.
• High comfort level managing complex, multi-month sales cycles while keeping Hubspot pipeline data immaculate.

• We like to nurture talent and ensure members of our team develop and hone their skills through training, attending conferences and subscriptions to online courses.
• £55K - £65K + 30% commission (OTE) uncapped (DOE)
• Participation in the employee share option plan (subject to the prevailing company policy at the time)
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + holiday for tenure
• Hybrid working approach.
• Pension Scheme at 4% matched (UK Residents Only)
• Private Medical Scheme with AXA including dental and optical cash plans
• Access to Oliva, a mental health platform
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 x salary)
• A wellbeing budget of up to £400 per year.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Company perks such as fruit, snacks and weekly office beers