Founding Business Development Manager

As a Founding Business Development Manager, you’ll be an external-facing relationship builder responsible for creating authentic initial conversations with prospective partners. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Head of Marketing and Communications. You’ll own top-of-funnel prospecting, introduce Catchafire’s value to new audiences, and help drive our growth. You'll proactively identify and engage with high-potential accounts through strategic cold calling, personalized email sequences, and targeted social selling. Engage prospects with insightful, value-driven conversations that uncover their grantmaking and community needs and position Catchafire as the indispensable solution for trust-based philanthropy. Strategic data and desk management is also required. Supporting early-stage meetings to qualify prospects based on business needs, timeline, budget, and authority and attending events (online and in-person) to organically meet with prospective customers is also a part of the job.