Business Development Associate

Caplight

Caplight

Sales & Business Development
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted 6+ months ago

Business Development Associate

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About Caplight

Caplight's a seed-stage fintech company founded in 2021 backed by Susquehanna, Fin VC, Better Tomorrow Ventures, and others. We're a private market data platform and marketplace for institutions to buy/sell pre-IPO stock (SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic). Our clients are investment banks, hedge funds, VCs, mutual funds, family offices, and private market brokers. We are growing more than +100% YoY. The company is small (15 people total, mostly engineers) and we have 4 business team members in total in San Francisco (CEO, 2 BD Associates, and a Chief of Staff).

About the Role

The role touches all aspects of the company including finance, sales/marketing, strategy, product, partnerships, operations, and more.
Responsibilities include:
Lead new client acquisition and existing client engagement efforts across Caplight’s marketplace and data businesses.
Manage deal origination and execution processes for Caplight’s marketplace business. You will help oversee Caplight’s marketplace to ensure all opportunities are being addressed and progressing towards closing.
Create marketing materials and data analyses to be distributed to clients, journalists, and potential new leads.
Work alongside our Product, Engineering, and Design teams to develop client-facing materials for demo and business development efforts.
Maintain and improve internal workflows centered around project management, data storage, client engagement.
Help establish the future technology roadmap based on client feedback.
Finding creative ways to add value.

Qualifications

2+ years of relevant professional experience in investment banking, fintech software sales, private markets (venture capital and private equity), or a generalist role at a fast-growing fintech startup.
Demonstrated ability to simplify and synthesize complex problems and communicate them to clients and other stakeholders.
Excellent data analysis and presentation skills.
Self-starter: we are looking for individuals who can take a project from 0 to 1 even in scenarios where you may be operating with little to no direction.
SIE, Series 7, and Series 63 are preferred (you will need to get these licenses within 3 months of hire).
San Francisco based.