Founding Business Development Representative (UK)

What You’ll Do

As our Founding Business Development Representative in the UK at Rillet, you’ll work closely with our GTM leadership and Business Development team to scale the sales pipeline and drive execution toward ambitious growth targets.

As one of the first members of our UK GTM team, you’ll have a key role in shaping our strategy, testing new approaches, and building the foundation for Rillet’s long-term go-to-market success.

You’ll engage CFOs, finance leaders, and accounting teams at everything from fast-scaling startups to global enterprises — helping them understand how Rillet can transform the way they operate.

Drive and Evolve Our Outbound Motion

• Build on our initial outbound playbook by testing and iterating on messaging, channels, targeting, and strategy.

• Run message tests, analyse ROI across channels, and explore new and unexpected outreach tactics.

• Refine outbound processes, take full ownership with a scrappy, results-driven mindset, and double down where you see traction.

Execute with Relentless Focus

• Partner closely with the GTM team to provide feedback on MQLs, campaigns, and prospect engagement.

• Lead personalised, strategic outreach to high-priority accounts, converting cold and warm leads into qualified opportunities.

• Actively drive and accelerate pipeline growth.

Represent Rillet

• Be the first point of contact for many prospects, running qualification calls and guiding them through the early stages of evaluation.

• Engage thoughtfully with customer needs and communicate Rillet’s value proposition clearly, compellingly, and in a solution-oriented way.

• Build familiarity with finance and accounting workflows so you can engage credibly with sophisticated buyers.

Who We’re Looking For

• Experience in Sales Development, Business Development, or another customer-facing role at a top-tier SaaS startup, leading accounting or consulting firm, or similarly high-performing environment.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills — you can distil complex concepts into clear, conversational messaging.

• Experience engaging finance or accounting decision-makers is a plus.

• Strong commercial curiosity and an interest in financial operations and accounting.

• Proactive and action-oriented — you take initiative and move quickly.

• Thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while maintaining high attention to detail.

• Strong organisational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritise and execute across multiple projects.

• Analytical and curious — you enjoy experimenting with outreach strategies and using data to inform decisions.

• Experience working cross-functionally with GTM, Product, and leadership teams.

Life at Rillet

• Grow with us. Take meaningful ownership, expand your scope, and make an impact as Rillet scales.

• Competitive pay and meaningful equity. Be rewarded for the value you help create.

• Benefits that support you. We offer competitive benefits designed to support your health, wellbeing, time away from work, family, and long-term financial goals.

• Better together. We value collaboration, connection, and spending meaningful time together as a team. We regularly create opportunities to connect through team meals, events, and company gatherings.