Toptal

Business Development Lead, Education

Toptal

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define and execute the vertical-specific go-to-market and business development strategy.
  • Identify, prospect, and close new client accounts across enterprise, SMB, and high-growth firms.
  • Build and maintain trusted relationships with client stakeholders (C-suite, HR, Talent, Operations).
  • Own the end-to-end sales cycle in the initial phase (from outreach to closing).
  • Develop vertical-specific playbooks, sales narratives, and pricing models.
  • Partner with the Talent Acquisition team to ensure client requirements are aligned with recruiting capabilities.
  • Track pipeline activity, revenue performance, and client engagement metrics; report data-driven insights to leadership.
  • Represent the company at vertical-specific events, conferences, and thought-leadership opportunities. Set up and eventually hire, train, and manage a commercial team (SDRs, AEs) as the vertical scales.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is required.
  • 7+ years of experience in business development, client management, or sales within talent solutions, professional services, or the Education industry.
  • Proven success in both individual sales execution and building/managing teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to sell talent solutions models, including direct hire, contract-to-hire, and temp/flexible placements.
  • Strong knowledge of high-skill roles relevant to the vertical.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
  • Proficiency with CRM tools (Salesforce) and collaboration platforms (Slack, Zoom, etc.).
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
  • You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You will not be here just to tell other people what to do.
Benefits
  • Work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Use all required digital collaboration tools.
  • Prioritize and self-manage workflows and deadlines.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
business developmentclient managementsales executiontalent solutionsdirect hirecontract-to-hiretemp placementspipeline trackingdata-driven insightsteam management
Soft skills
communicationnegotiationpresentationrelationship buildingadaptabilityproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationtime managementindividual contribution
Certifications
Bachelor's degree
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