What are the responsibilities and job description for the Enterprise Business Development Manager (BDM) position at aiola?
The Role
We're hiring an Enterprise BDM — a senior, execution-driven individual contributor to anchor our US expansion. This is not a high-volume, meeting-booking seat. Reporting directly to the CRO, you are the tip of the spear in an account-based outbound motion into Fortune 500 organizations with large field-sales teams — primarily in CPG, MedDevice, and Industrial.
You will own outbound into named accounts, navigate complex buying committees (Sales Leadership, RevOps, and Salesforce/IT owners), and run early-stage discovery yourself before handing the close to Sales. As an early hire you won't just follow a playbook — you'll help write it: refining our ICP, testing messaging hooks, and building the foundation of our GTM engine.
Outbound is the primary pipeline engine.
Why This Role Matters
aiola is entering a critical phase of US expansion. As our first dedicated Enterprise Business Development hire, you will play a foundational role in building our enterprise pipeline engine, shaping our go-to-market motion, and helping define how Fortune 500 organizations adopt conversational AI in the field.
What You'll Do
We're hiring an Enterprise BDM — a senior, execution-driven individual contributor to anchor our US expansion. This is not a high-volume, meeting-booking seat. Reporting directly to the CRO, you are the tip of the spear in an account-based outbound motion into Fortune 500 organizations with large field-sales teams — primarily in CPG, MedDevice, and Industrial.
You will own outbound into named accounts, navigate complex buying committees (Sales Leadership, RevOps, and Salesforce/IT owners), and run early-stage discovery yourself before handing the close to Sales. As an early hire you won't just follow a playbook — you'll help write it: refining our ICP, testing messaging hooks, and building the foundation of our GTM engine.
Outbound is the primary pipeline engine.
Why This Role Matters
aiola is entering a critical phase of US expansion. As our first dedicated Enterprise Business Development hire, you will play a foundational role in building our enterprise pipeline engine, shaping our go-to-market motion, and helping define how Fortune 500 organizations adopt conversational AI in the field.
What You'll Do
- Own strategic outbound. Run multi-threaded outbound campaigns into named Fortune 500 accounts in CPG, MedDevice, and Industrial — engaging senior stakeholders (VP Field Sales, VP RevOps, Sales Effectiveness/Enablement leaders, and Salesforce/IT owners).
- Run discovery, not just booking. Own the quality of early-stage conversations end to end — qualify deep, map the buying committee, and hand the sales team a meeting with a clear use case, stakeholder map, and technical context.
- Catch inbound as it comes. Qualify and prioritize high-value leads from Marketing and ABM events, converting them into deep-discovery meetings. (Secondary to outbound today; growing over time.)
- Keep the funnel honest. Maintain impeccable CRM hygiene in HubSpot, track funnel health, and keep Marketing and Sales tightly aligned.
- 5 years in enterprise B2B business development or sales, with a proven track record of cold outbound into US-based Fortune 500 / Enterprise accounts. Your concrete wins include outbound-originated pipeline, not only inbound conversion.
- Business acumen. You can hold a credible, peer-level business conversation with a VP of Field Sales, Regional Sales Leaders, or RevOps — you understand how their organization runs and what keeps them up at night, and you lead with that, not a feature pitch.
- Prospecting craft. You know how to break into named accounts and multi-thread a buying committee. You're tool-agnostic and comfortable executing on a lean stack — we run HubSpot and Apollo on day one, not a heavy enterprise tooling suite.
- Complex-cycle expertise. Deep understanding of long, multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
- Executive presence. You engage C-suite and VP-level stakeholders with credibility, curiosity, and high business acumen.
- Entrepreneurial grit. You thrive in a fast-moving startup, take ownership, and solve for ambiguity — and you're expected to produce qualified pipeline inside your first 90 days, not after a quarter of stack-building.