Business Development Representative

Bisnow
New York, NY
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Entry-level candidates with a strong interest in commercial real estate and a demonstrated ability to learn and adapt will find this role's hybrid structure and clear growth path appealing.

Best fit for

  • Recent graduates or early-career professionals eager to grow within a sales-focused, entrepreneurial environment
    — “we welcome upcoming December 2026 graduates, recent graduates, and early-career professionals with 0–2 years of experience”
  • Individuals who thrive in fast-paced, high-energy sales environments and are open to feedback and continuous learning
    — “Capability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced, frequently-changing sales environment.”

Things to consider

  • The role requires 3 days per week in the Chicago office despite being a hybrid position
    — “This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office (24 East Washington St.), in-office 3 days a week.”
  • The position is open to candidates with no prior experience but demands a high level of self-motivation and target-driven performance
    — “Self-starter with a strong drive to aggressively exceed targets.”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your ability to quickly learn and adapt to new products or services in your resume and interview responses
    — “Ability to learn fast. We’re constantly bringing new products to market”
  • Emphasize your experience in team-based environments and your collaborative mindset
    — “Demonstrated experience excelling in a group or team environment of any sort.”
  • Showcase your interest in commercial real estate and how it aligns with your career goals
    — “A strong interest in the commercial real estate industry, talent acquisition, executive search & technology”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Individual

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Generated new leads
  • Converted leads into sales
Typical background
Sales experienceBusiness Development

Skills & requirements

Required

Sales ProspectingLead QualificationCRM UsageSales Strategy DevelopmentClient Communication

Preferred

Commercial Real Estate Industry KnowledgeSales Technology

Stack & domain

SalesProspectingLead GenerationCRMSalesforceProduct MarketingCommercial Real EstateCommunicationTeamworkLeadershipProblem-solvingExecutive SearchStaffing Sales

About the role

Original posting from Bisnow via Lever

SelectLeaders is looking for a hungry, high-potential entry-level Business Development Representative to join our Commercial Real Estate executive search and staffing sales team. In this role, you’ll partner with CRE employers and talent to help connect industry-leading organizations with the people who define them — and the careers that define those people.

This role has a clear path to Senior Associate and beyond, and a genuine culture of developing and promoting from within. If you’re ambitious and coachable, this is the kind of place where your first job becomes your career.

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office (24 East Washington St.), in-office 3 days a week. We welcome upcoming December 2026 graduates, recent graduates, and early-career professionals with 0–2 years of experience from any background. Anticipated start date: January 11th, 2027.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Your job is to work with the Managing Director to prospect open territories and manage all inbound leads.  The key component of your job is to educate prospects on the value of our products and services.
  • Follow up on inbound leads through email, phone, video conference, and LinkedIn to qualify or disqualify interest in our products and services.
  • Collaborate with the Managing Director to develop a prospecting strategy within your territories to identify potential clients.
  • Leverage Bisnow and SelectLeaders data, technology and relationships to drive revenue generating opportunities
  • The key component of your job is to educate prospects on the value of our products and services.
  • Develop relationships with internal sales, customer success. marketing, finance and technology groups
  • Document all client interactions in Salesforce and communicate effectively with internal stakeholders

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?:

  • 0 - 2 years of experience in sales or a Selling Initiative Program within college.
  • Self-starter with a strong drive to aggressively exceed targets. 
  • Intellectual curiosity - a desire to listen and learn from those around you.
  • Interest in becoming a TOP contributor in sales (Business Development Executive).
  • Innate hustle, raw intelligence and infectious enthusiasm.
  • Ability to demonstrate an entrepreneurial yet disciplined mindset, creative yet organized work-ethic and an ambitious yet humble attitude.
  • Ability to learn fast. We’re constantly bringing new products to market and you need to be able to understand their purpose, how our clients use them and learn to market them
  • Demonstrated experience excelling in a group or team environment of any sort.
  • A strong interest in the commercial real estate industry,  talent acquisition, executive search & technology
  • Ability to remain receptive to feedback and open to learning
  • Capability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced, frequently-changing sales environment.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?:

  • Competitive compensation structure - base salary + uncapped commissions & bonuses!
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance - effective the 1st of the month following your start date.
  • Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - this includes maternity and paternity leaves as well. 
  • 401K 
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Health Savings Account
  • Dependent Care Account
  • Unlimited Vacation Days
  • 7 days paid sick leave
  • 9 paid Holidays
  • Referral Bonus Program
  • You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate).

Compensation:

+ Uncapped monthly commission: the more you close, the more you earn.

Anticipated start date: January 11th, 2027

Get To Know Our Teams! < Click here for more info about Bisnow, Biscred & SelectLeaders!

NEXT STEPS

Before applying, please read our values below. Our values describe and give insight into our culture. If you do not share the same values, this role will not be a mutually beneficial fit. If you do share these values and want to apply, we encourage you to do so. 

Our values demand that we be curious, self-aware, fearless, consistent. We say yes to seemingly insurmountable challenges because we dare ourselves to push further. And we go the distance because we are individually and collectively entrepreneurial, always asking: Why can’t it be done? We find a way because we care more than the competition. We embrace team and disown ego. We are ruthlessly disciplined and unabashedly kind. We unreservedly challenge the status quo and vigorously fight for new levels of excellence. We believe the difference between good and great is exceptional communication. We obsess over creating value for our team and our customers. We push ourselves and our industry to be more inclusive, to champion diversity and to fight racism, gender bias and all forms of inequality. We never peak. We never quit. We never have excuses. We own our failures and we commit to being smarter and stronger because of them. We give our best today and even better tomorrow. We are here to win.

Source: Bisnow careers (Lever)

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