Founding Business Development Representative
ABOUT FIRST ROUND
First Round https://firstround.com/ is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.
ABOUT THE ROLE
One of the most important jobs our team does is to help founders generate and execute their first few dozen sales conversations and pave the path for founders to get to their first million in ARR. That’s what our Founding BDR does.
This role is First Round's embedded, interim "founding GTM" for our portfolio. You'll work across 3–5 portfolio companies at a time, dropping into each one as if you were their first outbound hire — clarify ICP, figure out the right outbound strategy, build a target list, run and iterate on campaigns to book meetings for the founder to take from there. You might cold call 50 prospects on a Monday, build outbound sequences on Tuesday, and hand-deliver gifts to top prospect accounts on a Wednesday.
Why this opportunity is unique: If you're a future founder or Sales Leader, this is one of the best apprenticeships you'll find. You’ll work with the top founders in SF and NYC, learn from our VP of GTM/Founder Success — a GTM veteran with 20+ years of tech sales leadership experience — and have first dips on founding GTM roles at First Round companies after 18 months in the role.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Serve as the embedded founding BDR for 3–5 portfolio companies simultaneously, each at a different stage of building out their own outbound motion.
- For each company, define the ICP with the founder, build and continuously refine and enrich target account/co...