Remote Business Development Representative
Laguna Beach, CA - USA
Job Summary
Were hiring a Business Development Representative to build relationships and connect the right people to the right opportunities the person in the middle who makes deals happen across any market.
- Flexible Title: Can tailor to reflect your skills & experience.
- Flexible Time: Can do full-time part-time side-gig (off-hours) or fractional (contract).
- Flexible Commitment: Can do short-term long-term or intermittent.
- No specific industry required. If you can build relationships and connect buyers and sellers the market doesnt matter real estate business capital services we want the connector.
Why so flexible Were a FUNDED startup racing to launch end of Q3 2026. That gives us just 3 months to stack features while raising additional working capital. Feel free to jump in help us ship then bounce >> or stick around. A successful launch translates into lots of permanent jobs for those that want them. Were also interested in long-term side gig relationships if thats what youre intoin our experience a few expert hours often beat full-time learning-curve hours.
Were a credible funded remote-first startup backed by a growing team. Were pre-launch and moving fast building the kind of relationship-driven deal network that connects people who have something with people who want it.
Some people are natural connectors. Theyre the ones who always seem to know a guy who remember that two people they met months apart should really talk who are comfortable sitting in the middle of a deal and making sure both sides win. Thats the person were hiring.
This isnt a niche single-industry seat its a relationship-maker role. Whether the deal is real estate a business changing hands capital looking for a home or a service provider looking for clients the skill is the same: build trust understand what each side actually needs and connect them. Youll be the person who develops relationships on both sides of the market and turns I know someone who... into real tracked opportunities.
This is part business development part matchmaking part relationship management. If youre the type who builds a network everywhere you go whos comfortable working a deal from both ends and who gets energy from being the connection that made something happen this is your seat.
Up to $120000 OTE (base plus uncapped commission) for full-time performers; cash commission and equity components to be negotiated. Given the flexible commitment model comp will be structured accordingly fractional hourly or performance-only arrangements welcome for the right relationships and deal flow.
- Youve reviewed how we build relationships source opportunities and track deals today
- Youve gotten access to our CRM and communication tools and mapped where contacts and deals live
- Youve made your first round of outreach and follow-up to warm and new contacts
- Youve attended your first team standup and understand how a relationship becomes a tracked opportunity
- The team knows who you are why youre here and how youll work together
- Build relationships on both sides develop trust with buyers and sellers (or the equivalent) so youre the person they call
- Connect the right people sit in the middle understand what each side needs and make introductions that turn into deals
- Source opportunities find people with something to offer and people who want it across whatever markets have momentum
- Run phone-first outreach and follow-up consistent genuine follow-up is where relationships and deals actually come from
- Move opportunities forward take a relationship from first contact toward a real working deal coordinating with the team
- Keep the network and pipeline clean log contacts conversations and status so nothing and no one falls through the cracks
Must-haves:
- Experience in business development sales brokering partnerships or any relationship-driven role where you connected two sides
- Relationship-driven you build trust fast and keep it; youre the connector people remember
- Comfortable in the middle of a deal you can represent both sides interests and keep everyone moving
- Phone-comfortable youd rather call than email and youre good at it
- Organized and self-directed you keep your own network and follow-up tight without daily check-ins
Nice-to-have:
- An existing network you actively work across one or more markets (real estate business/M&A capital services etc.)
- Experience brokering connecting or matchmaking deals of any kind
- Familiarity with CRM tools (and the discipline to actually use one)
- Comfortable in fast-moving ambiguous environments
- Not a single-industry specialist the market doesnt matter here; the relationship skill does
- Not a cold-script reader this is genuine relationship building not a call center
- Not a solo shop youll work with a team and warm systems not build a network from zero alone
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