Business Development Representative

You know this world. Come sell to it.We are hiring a Business Development Representative for our US market, and we are deliberately recruiting from the government affairs world. Here is why: our best conversations with prospects happen when the person on our side can talk about committee schedules, disclosure filings, and legislative timelines like someone who has lived them. That fluency cannot be trained in a quarter. Prospecting can.If you work in government affairs right now, on the Hill, in a statehouse, at a public affairs firm, or inside a trade association, your weeks include:monitoring hearings, tracking bills across chambers, scanning lobbying disclosures, and pulling together updates on files that move fast.Page is an AI-powered government relations platform that delivers real-time legislative and regulatory intelligence at the US federal and state level, as well as across Canada, the UK, and Australia. Lobbying firms, associations, and in-house government affairs teams use us to monitor everything that matters to their files without burning staff hours doing it manually.Several of our team came to Page directly from government relations practice. This role is the first rung of that same path.What you'll doYou will own the top of our US, CAN, and UK sales funnel. That means identifying the lobbying firms, associations, and in-house teams that should be using Page, building prospect lists anchored in meaningful insights (new lobbying registrations, active bills, committee activity), and starting the conversations that our Account Executives close. Your insight on the machinations of government will also be realized in the product you help sell.Day to day:Research and build target account lists using lobbying disclosures, congressional and state legislative activity, industry news, and other government signalRun personalized outbound across email and LinkedIn, referencing the actual files and registrations in a prospect's worldBook qualified meetings for the sales team and hand off warm, well-researched opportunitiesKeep our CRM clean and current so the whole revenue team can move fastFeed what you hear from the market back into how we position and build the productWho we're looking for1 to 3 years in US government affairs: a public affairs or lobbying firm, a trade association, a Capitol Hill or statehouse office, or an in-house government relations team. We will also consider candidates from campaign, legislative research, or advocacy backgrounds who can demonstrate working knowledge of how the government affairs world operatesFluency in the machinery of government: you know what a lobbying registration tells you, why a committee markup matters, and how a bill actually moves. State-level experience is an asset, since much of the action our clients care about happens in statehouses, not just on the HillHunger to move into sales. You do not need sales experience. You need to be comfortable starting conversations with senior people, persistent without being annoying, and motivated by targetsSharp writer. Most of your first touches happen in text, and generic outreach dies on contact in this industryOrganized and self-directed. We are an early-stage team and you will have real ownership from day oneWhy make the jumpYour expertise becomes your edge. In government affairs, your knowledge of the process serves someone else's file. Here, it is the thing that makes you better at this job than any career SDRComp that grows with performance. Base salary competitive with junior government affairs roles, plus commission on meetings that convert. A clear path up. This role is built to grow into an Account Executive seat carrying your own bookEarly-stage upside. We are a small, fast-moving team operating across four countries. You will work directly with the founders and leadership, not three layers below themYou will learn to sell from people who sell well. Direct mentorship from a revenue team that built its book from zeroDesire to build. You see the inefficiencies of your industry and you want to innovate rather than spectateHow to applySkip the formal cover letter. Instead, tell us: if you had to get a meeting with the head of government affairs at a Fortune 500 company or a top DC firm, what would your first message say? Five sentences max.Page is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates.