In our Jobs of the Week column today, we’re highlighting Dash Hudson’s search for a Sales Development Representative and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation’s opening for an Investment Analyst.

Halifax-based Dash Hudson is a software-as-a-service company that developed a platform to help companies optimize their visual marketing strategies. It is looking for a Sales Development Representative to manage its outreach strategy to potential customers in a variety of industries.

NBIF is searching for an Investment Analyst to manage its growing investment portfolio and review potential investment opportunities. NBIF is a non-profit private investment corporation that has invested $85 million into startups and research development.

The Jobs of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.

Here are excerpts from the job postings:

Halifax

Dash Hudson

Sales Development Representative

Description

As a Sales Development Representative, you are a critical piece in the growth and development of Dash Hudson's sales process. You will manage a creative and customized outreach strategy to potential customers in verticals such as fashion, beauty, luxury, travel food, publishing, consumer electronics, and many more. 

Responsibilities

Find and source new leads for companies to go through the outreach process.
Assign leads to specific Account Executives.

Manage the early stages of the sales pipeline by communicating with potential customers through the outreach process.
Customize messages to leads, and maintain a consistent follow up schedule.
Collaborate with Account Executives to support their communications with warm leads, providing them with sales collateral.

Track the performance of daily outreach: emails sent, opened, clicked, and responded to.
Follow leads through the outreach process, and closing gaps where any lapses may occur.
Funnel unreached companies back into the outreach process. . . 

Read more about the posting here

Fredericton

New Brunswick Innovation Foundation

Investment Analyst

Description

This individual will play a pivotal role in managing and growing our investment portfolio, and review prospective investment opportunities to positively impact business development.

Responsibilities

Review and examine incoming investment opportunities
Determine investment strategies that positively impact business development and the New Brunswick community
Conduct financial analysis and the due diligence required to make sound investment decisions
Actively support our investee firms
Monitor market trends, opportunities, and risks. . . . 

Read more about the job here.