Vention is a global software engineering company with 20+ years of product development experience. We have worked with 550+ clients, from venture-backed startups to global businesses such as IBM, PayPal, PwC, Costa Coffee, and ClassPass. Our 3,000+ engineers work across more than 20 global offices.
We help clients build and modernise products, scale engineering organisations, and transform delivery through AI-enabled and agentic engineering. Many client relationships span 15+ years.
We’re expanding our London office and hiring a Business Development Manager to grow new partnerships in the UK. Reporting to the BD Director, you’ll help build the next stage of Vention’s UK commercial presence as we scale beyond $250M in ARR.
This is a role for someone who wants real commercial ownership and enjoys building trust at senior level. You will work directly with founders, product and engineering leaders, attend industry events, and bring the right Vention experts into conversations when a client needs to go deeper.
- Generate new leads and meetings with clients that meet Vention’s ideal client profile (ICP)
- Conversion of new leads coming from the marketing team
- Focus on bringing in new revenue for Vention UK
- Engage with product and engineering leaders to turn client goals into clear execution paths
- Working closely with UK & Global sales team to establish new ways of selling our services in the UK market
- Ensure seamless onboarding of new clients and drive growth on these accounts for the first year
- Attend events and other networking meetups to generate leads and opportunities
- Maintain clean pipeline data and bring a mindset of continuous improvement
- 3+ years of experience in tech consultative sales or talent/recruitment sales
- Proven ability to self-source and close complex deals
- Confident working with technical and executive stakeholders
- Strong grasp of product development and how fast-moving companies scale
- Highly autonomous, outcome-focused, and energised by growth
- Experience with modern GTM tooling and AI-powered sales workflows
- £100/month wellness allowance (gym, fitness, mental health)
- Private health insurance
- 4% employer pension contribution
- 26 days annual leave + paid winter break
- Statutory parental leave
- WeWork membership with global access
- Career coaching, growth paths, and mentorship in a high-performance culture
- Own the full new-business cycle, from self-sourced and marketing-led opportunities through strategic qualification, closing, and first-year relationship growth
- Develop your own approach to building relationships, while working with a close-knit UK team that shares ideas, compares notes, and helps each other improve
- Bring Vention’s UK CTO, delivery leaders, AI experts, and engineers into discovery and solution shaping when the conversation needs technical depth
- Sell with proof. ClassPass grew from Series A to a $1B valuation, expanded to 30 countries, and unified 40,000+ studios with Vention as its engineering partner
- See what long-term enterprise delivery looks like. Merkle has partnered with Vention for 10+ years; a 25-person Vention team has supported 30+ of its global clients and helped deliver 150,000 marketing campaigns generating £800M+ annually