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Business Development Manager

Bellevue, WA

Posted: 04/16/2026 Industry: Sales Job Number: 3580222 Pay Rate: 90000/year - 125000/year

Job Description


Founding Growth Lead (Hybrid – Greater Seattle Area)

Compensation: $130K–$165K OTE + Equity

Schedule: Full-time | Hybrid 3 days per week in Bellevue WA office

About the Opportunity

Join a high-growth, venture-backed company building a modern solution in a complex, high-value space. This is a founding growth hire where you’ll work directly with leadership to build pipeline, refine go-to-market strategy, and help establish the foundation for long-term revenue growth.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating opportunity from scratch, working closely with founders, and turning early wins into a repeatable playbook.

What You’ll Do
  • Build pipeline through outbound, referrals, events, and creative prospecting
  • Identify and engage decision-makers across HR, Talent, Legal, Finance, and Operations
  • Lead early-stage discovery to uncover needs and qualify opportunities
  • Partner with leadership on deal strategy and pipeline development
  • Help shape messaging, targeting, and overall GTM approach
  • Track activity and maintain strong pipeline visibility

What We’re Looking For
  • 4–7+ years in sales, business development, or growth roles
  • Proven ability to generate pipeline from scratch (true hunter mindset)
  • Strong discovery, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience selling into HR, People Ops, Talent, Legal, or Operations leaders preferred
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, early-stage environment with evolving structure

What’s in It for You
  • Meaningful equity and strong earning potential
  • Direct access to founders and real influence on strategy
  • High-ownership role with visible impact on company growth
  • Opportunity to build and shape a GTM function from the ground up
  • Comprehensive benefits and flexible PTO

Who This Role Is For
  • Builders who thrive in ambiguity and want to create, not just execute
  • Sales professionals who enjoy outbound and early-stage opportunity development

Who This Role Is Not For
  • Candidates who prefer fully structured environments or rely heavily on inbound leads

Who is Rainier Recruiting

Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search. Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate. Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with.

Meet Your Recruiter

Gina Sanders
Senior Recruiter

Gina brings over seven years of recruiting experience to Rainier Recruiting. Gina is passionate about helping candidates advance in their careers and clients hire the best talent for their teams. She loves working in the collaborative environment Rainier Recruiting fosters and thrives in the competitive nature of the recruiting industry. Gina is a Washington state local and Central Washington University graduate with a human resources degree.

When not recruiting, you’ll find Gina in Eastern Washington snowboarding, hiking, mountain biking, riding dirt bikes, practicing yoga, and spending time with her family.

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