Accelerate your career in a full-time sales role at a top startup. For people with 0-2 years experience.
Why Jumpstart?
20+
startups pitching their roles to you a month (via weekly spotlights)
£30-50K
base salary plus commission and equity. We’ll help you negotiate.
250+
alumni placed in top startups
Sales Development Representative (SDR)
This role is most common in tech startups, where SDRs play a critical role in scaling the company’s growth by sourcing new potential customers/clients. This could be a great fit if you’re ambitious, target-driven, and you’re looking for rapid career progression (e.g. to Business Development Manager and Head of Sales). The SDR role also offers an amazing opportunity to build a fantastic network in an industry you're passionate about.
Commercial Associate
In this role you go one step further as you'll be responsible for closing deals and bringing in new business, as well as building relationships with new customers. If you’re confident, outgoing and love a bit of healthy competition then this role could be a brilliant fit. As a Commercial Associate you could progress into an Account Manager or Head of Sales role, but it also opens up other avenues such as in partnerships.
Account Executive (AE)
Your primary responsibility would be to maintain and grow existing client relationships, making sure clients are happy and using your product to its full potential, as well as identifying opportunities to grow their accounts. The best AEs are great listeners, problem-solvers and confident communicators - if this sounds like you then it could be a great fit.
Something else?
Each cohort has a real variety of sales roles, so you’ll definitely find something that suits you. You might even be surprised about which role takes your fancy when you start hearing from the startup founders and teams. Our startup spotlights (where you hear directly from teams and founders over Zoom) allow you to really dig into the reality of each role.
We’ll help you find the right startup and role for you
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“I have a degree in Chemistry, and thought I’d never be suited to a Sales or Commercial role. But I found out through Jumpstart that I was not only interested in these roles, but had the skills to succeed.”
Zahra Sicuro SDR at Vitrue Health
“At Ledgy, there is a positive and inclusive culture, something you wouldn’t normally associate with sales. SaaS sales is quite different to traditional sales - there’s often a view that sales can be dishonest, or forced through by any means. But we’re looking to solve a problem, we never onboard someone we don’t have anything to offer.”
Gregory Hartley Business Development at Ledgy
“My role is really different all the time, working across teams. I do a lot of experimenting, whether that’s with copy or emails to capture people’s attention. My role involves a lot of writing and figuring out how to connect with people.”
Kim Hermo Commercial Associate at PreWarpWe work with hundreds of startups across tons of industries, and around 20 of the best pitch their roles to each cohort.
The Application Process
Our sales programme is best suited to those with 0-2 years of experience looking to accelerate their sales career at a top startup. If that sounds like you, apply now.
1
Apply with CV
(30 secs)2
Written Assessment
(20 mins)3
Zoom Interview
(40 mins)Who we’re looking for
Our sales programme is best suited to those with 0-2 years of experience (not necessarily in sales!), who are looking to take a step up or a step across.
You could already have some sales experience and are keen to switch it up, or you could have experience in a client-facing role and are looking to transition over to sales. Either way, we’d love to hear from you.
We admit people based on their potential, and evidence of being super proactive, motivated and excellent communicators.
We love hearing about your side hustles, startups (failed or otherwise!), blogs, sporting achievements, social accounts, interests, ideas or ambitions.
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