Business Development Manager, Job Placements

Business Development Manager, Career PlacementsYour mission: get SkillCat students hired.

SkillCat helps people build great careers in the skilled trades without spending tens of thousands of dollars on school or taking on a bunch of debt.

We’re looking for a scrappy, relentless relationship-builder to help our students land jobs in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, facilities maintenance, and other skilled trades.

This is a highly outbound role. You’ll cold call employers, message hiring managers, build relationships, find companies that are hiring, and connect them with SkillCat students.

If you don’t like picking up the phone and calling strangers, this probably isn’t the job for you.

What You’ll Do

• Cold call owners, hiring managers, and recruiters
• Turn our network of 500+ companies into hiring partners
• Find new employers actively hiring SkillCat students
• Build long-term relationships with employers across the country
• Connect students with jobs and follow through until placements happen
• Run virtual hiring events and in-person job fairs
• Build our employer outreach, CRM, and career placement playbook
• Bring student and employer feedback back to our product team

Your success is measured by one thing: students getting jobs.

Who We’re Looking For

You’ll probably be great at this if you:

• Love talking to people
• Are comfortable making lots of cold calls
• Handle rejection without losing energy
• Build relationships quickly
• Follow up relentlessly
• Are extremely organized
• Can work independently
• Are scrappy when there isn’t already a playbook
• Genuinely care about helping people build better careers

Great backgrounds include BDR/SDR, agency recruiting, staffing, business development, workforce development, or career placement.

Experience in the skilled trades is helpful, but not required. A college degree is not required.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first year, we want you to:

• Place hundreds of SkillCat students into jobs
• Build hundreds of active employer relationships
• Create a repeatable outbound engine for finding hiring companies
• Build the playbook we use to scale the career placement team

Compensation & Logistics

$60,000 to $90,000 base salary + performance-based commission

Remote, with travel for hiring events and job fairs.

If you're particularly passionate about this role, shoot an email to ruchir@skillcatapp.com with your resume and a blurb around why you're a good fit.