Network Growth Associate
SideStarter | Working Primarily with AdvisoryCloud | Remote | $60,000/year base + Significant Performance-Based Commissions
SideStarter is looking for an ambitious, resourceful Network Growth Associate who will work primarily with our portfolio company, AdvisoryCloud, to help build and expand large-scale advisory boards across the country.
This is not a traditional sales role.
Your job is to find organizations with large existing communities - nonprofits, associations, universities, accelerators, business organizations and others and help them turn those networks into advisory boards of hundreds or even thousands of people.
You'll also build your own professional advisory network and use those relationships to generate introductions, partnerships and new opportunities for AdvisoryCloud.
This is a highly performance-compensated role. The $60,000 salary is the base, but the opportunity is designed for someone who wants to earn significantly more through commissions tied to the partnerships they originate and help bring onto the platform. Larger, higher-impact partnerships create larger commission opportunities, and strong performers can earn more in commissions than in base salary.
What You'll Do
Your mission is simple: find great networks and bring them onto AdvisoryCloud.
You'll:
- Build your own AdvisoryCloud board of executives, entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders and well-connected professionals
- Identify organizations with large communities that could create 100+ person advisory boards
- Research and reach out directly to executives and organizational leaders
- Build relationships with people who can introduce AdvisoryCloud throughout their networks
- Regularly ask your advisory network for targeted introductions
- Help interested organizations create and launch their AdvisoryCloud boards
- Work directly with organizations to invite their first 100+ advisors
- Develop relationships with nonprofits, associations, universities, accelerators, chambers and other organizations
- Identify larger partnerships that could bring dozens or hundreds of organizations onto AdvisoryCloud
- Test new audiences, messages and outreach strategies
- Track what's working and continually improve the growth playbook
What Your Day Might Look Like
One morning, you might identify 50 nonprofits with large supporter communities and reach out to their executive directors.
Later, you might speak with several members of your own AdvisoryCloud board and ask for introductions to association or university leaders they know.
In the afternoon, you might help a nonprofit launch its new 500-person Advisory Board, contact several potential national partners, and research a completely new category of organizations for us to test.
This is a role for someone who enjoys figuring out how to make things happen.
Who We're Looking For
We're less concerned about a specific résumé and more interested in how you operate.
You should be someone who:
- Loves meeting and connecting with new people
- Is comfortable reaching out to people you don't know
- Isn't afraid to pick up the phone, send an email or ask for an introduction
- Is an excellent written and verbal communicator
- Knows how to research people and organizations online
- Is naturally curious and resourceful
- Is persistent without being pushy
- Is highly organized and excellent at following up
- Enjoys building relationships rather than simply closing transactions
- Likes experimenting with different approaches to see what works
- Can work independently without needing a detailed playbook for every task
- Gets excited about being given a goal and figuring out how to achieve it
Experience in business development, recruiting, partnerships, nonprofit development, fundraising, associations, university advancement, community building or membership development is particularly relevant.
How We'll Measure Success
We don't care primarily about how many calls you make or meetings you book.
We care about what you build.
Success will be measured by:
- New organizations launching AdvisoryCloud boards
- Boards that reach 100+ advisors
- Total new advisors invited to AdvisoryCloud
- Introductions generated through your network
- Partnerships that bring multiple organizations onto the platform
Ultimately, your job is to create a flywheel:
Build relationships → Generate introductions → Launch new boards → Bring hundreds of new advisors into AdvisoryCloud → Build more relationships.
Why This Role Is Different
Most business development jobs give you a database and a script and ask you to book meetings.
At SideStarter, you'll be working primarily with AdvisoryCloud and will be given a market, a platform and a mission.
You'll have significant freedom to identify new audiences, build your own network, develop relationships with executives and organizational leaders, and discover entirely new ways to grow AdvisoryCloud.
You'll also have the opportunity to build an extraordinary professional network of your own along the way.
Compensation: $60,000/year base + significant performance-based commissions tied to the partnerships you originate and help launch. Strong performers can earn more in commissions than in base salary.
Location: Remote
Pay: $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you live in the continental U.S.?
- Do you have experience in B2B business development?
Work Location: Remote
