Soma Capital Portfolio Jobs

Business Development Representative

Paraform

Paraform

Sales & Business Development
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Jun 30, 2025

We're hiring a hungry Business Development Representative to drive new business for Paraform.

You'll drive mid-market and enterprise deals, but help build out the playbook and continue Paraform's exponential growth. Folks need to be willing to grind, but we also need creative thinkers who have high clockspeed, can implement time-saving structure & process, and generate new ideas that accelerate growth.

As an early business hire, you'll work closely with our GTM leadership team to expand Paraform's global footprint, and build a world-class sales team.

What we look for:

  • 1 - 5 years of experience as a top performing BDR and/or AE at a high velocity startup or in finance

  • Top performer - track record of top sales performance: quick promotions, consistently beating quota

  • Have done something most people haven't – started a company, won a hackathon, qualified for the Olympics, etc.

  • Previously cold-outbounded your way into at least one incredible opportunity you had no business getting

What you'll do:

  • Source new sales opportunities through inbound qualification and outbound outreach

  • Qualify prospects through consultative selling

  • Grow top of sales funnel through warm and cold outbound campaigns

  • Test and iterate on experimental marketing and GTM motions

  • Maintain accurate client relationship data within Salesforce

  • Train to join our Account Executive team

About Paraform:

Paraform is a recruiting platform for elite recruiters helping companies fill their most critical roles faster. By combining a high-performance network of independent recruiters and search firms with modern AI tools, Paraform gives companies a faster, more reliable way to hire top talent and gives recruiters the tools and flexibility to thrive.

We partner with industry leaders like Cursor, Palantir, Windsurf, Decagon, Hightouch, and many more to hire world-class talent.

We've grown extremely fast in the past year to mid 8-figures in ARR and are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.