Business Development Manager, US

About the company

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and SMBs to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as JP Morgan, Visa and Wise and helped more than 50,000 businesses using our suite of products.

Aspire has been awarded Best Employer of the Year and Startup of the year by Asia FinTech Awards, and also LinkedIn’s Top Startup in Singapore. In 2024, we also made it to CB Insights’ Top 100 Global Fintech List two years in a row.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team! Aspire serves as an environment for you to innovate and drive change with our team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international and diverse backgrounds. Are you a top talent who is passionate about entrepreneurship? Join our rapidly growing team to make an impact in the Fintech space!

About the role

We are looking for a high-energy Business Development Manager to join our growing fintech sales team. In this role, you will manage and convert qualified inbound leads into active customers for our financial solutions platform, which includes corporate cards, spend management, AP automation, and global payment solutions.

You will be the first point of contact for prospective customers—educating them, diagnosing their business needs, and guiding them through the onboarding and activation process. This role requires a blend of consultative selling, product knowledge, and the ability to understand financial operations (payments, AP/AR, expense workflows).

Responsibilities :

Leads Management :

• Respond promptly and guide inbound deals for new AA conversion
• Support lead inquiries from web forms, marketing campaigns, webinars, events, and referrals and conduct discovery engagement to understand the prospect’s business model, workflows, volume, entity structure, financial operations, and pain points.
• Prioritize high-value deals and engage them with product value propositions.

Consultative Sales

• Clearly communicate how our financial platform (cards, AP automation, global payments, or FX) solves customer problems such as spend control, reconciliation challenges, disorganized vendor payments, multi-entity complexity, or cash-flow visibility.
• Provide product walkthroughs and coordinate demos when needed.
• Advise prospects on best practices for onboarding, compliance, and integration with accounting systems (Xero etc)
• Proactively identify opportunities to cross-sell or upsell additional modules.
• Ensure all inbound SLAs and follow-up cadences are met.

Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with marketing to improve lead quality and conversion insights.
• Provide feedback to Product, Risk, and Onboarding teams based on customer patterns and objections.

Requirements :

• 3–5 years of experience in inbound sales, SDR/BDR, account advisor, or account executive roles.
• Experience in fintech, SaaS, B2B payments, expense management, AP automation, banking, or similar industries is highly preferred
• Strong discovery and consultative selling skills.
• Excellent communication—clear, concise, and customer-centric.
• Ability to understand financial operations (vendor payments, spend workflows, ledgers, reconciliation, approval matrices).
• Comfortable managing high inbound volume while maintaining quality.
• Tech-savvy: CRM (HubSpot), presentation tools, product demo tools.
• Data-driven mindset with strong ownership of KPIs (conversion rate, response time, CRM hygiene).

What we offer :

• Work from anywhere
• Uncapped flexible annual leave.
• Training subsidy for your professional growth.
• Team bonding budget to foster collaboration and sense of belonging.
• Culture is Key: Most importantly, we always strive to cultivate a special culture that brings special talents together - You may learn more about our culture at our careers site and LinkedIn Life page.

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