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# Director, Business Development (UK) at Wunderkind

- **Company:** Wunderkind
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://www.wunderkind.co/careers/?gh_jid=8239302

## Job description

Director of Business Development - Enterprise/Strategic, International

Having established a strong foothold in the EMEA market, we are looking for the industry's brightest and best sales talent to join us on the next chapter of this region's evolution.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Business Development INTL, as Director of Business Development, you’ll join our team of consultative experts to help everyone including C-Suite at FTSE 100’s think differently about their businesses.

You’ll have the chance to directly contribute to the growth of Wunderkind by developing and executing a sales strategy to drive new customer acquisition in the UK. In addition, you’ll play a critical role in the formulation of this region's sales narrative as we continually innovate and increase our routes to market.

You thrive in a multi-stakeholder, consultative sale and can hold your own in a C-Suite setting. Wunderkind drives growth for 650+ retailers and eCommerce companies with deals in the £200K to £1.5M+ per year range (in recurring revenue). This role will require you to master a complex, high-friction sales process as part of a dynamic team of industry top performers. Humility and coachability are key.

## Responsibilities

- Close complex, Strategic and Enterprise deals with qualified businesses to drive new revenue growth
- Communicate how Wunderkind’s offering drives revenue, what our competitive advantage is, and why it is worth the investment
- Navigate the industry to find key decision-makers and build their trust in both you and Wunderkind

## Requirements

- 5-6+ Years of Strategic/Enterprise Sales experience
- Demonstrated success working in a rigorous, results-driven role that directly impacted the growth of a business
- Accomplished consultative sales skill-set (complex / high value propositions) married with the ability to create immediate credibility, rapport and lasting relationships at Director/C-Suite
- An emotionally intelligent problem solver
- Prior exposure to MEDDPICC preferable

## About Wunderkind

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wunderkind is an AI-powered performance marketing platform that uses identity resolution and real-time intent to automate personalized messaging and drive guaranteed revenue for brands.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, NY, USA
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Performance marketing, AI-driven marketing, identity resolution, digital advertising
- **Target customers**: B2B – primarily mid-market to enterprise e-commerce, retail, and travel brands (e.g., Harley-Davidson, Kurt Geiger, AAA, True Botanicals)
- **Mission**: To scale a brand’s ability to create and grow customer relationships through websites, email, text, and ads. [wunderkind.co](https://www.wunderkind.co/about)

## Products & Services
- **Autonomous Marketing Platform (AMP)**: An AI-decisioning engine that uses identity resolution and real-time behavioral data to trigger personalized messages across email, SMS, onsite, and paid media. Integrates via SDKs, APIs, or existing ESPs/CDPs.
- **Wunderkind Identity Network**: A proprietary identity graph recognizing over 9 billion devices and observing 2 trillion digital events annually, enabling brands to identify anonymous traffic without relying on third-party cookies.
- **Wunderkind AI Decisioning Engine**: Agentic AI that learns and optimizes messaging in real-time based on individual consumer behavior.
- **Wunderkind Analytics**: Real-time performance dashboards (launched March 2025) for measuring campaign impact and ROI.
- **Wunderkind AI Experiences** (2025): Agentic messaging capabilities for smarter customer engagement.
- **Deployment Models**: Self-Service (plug into existing martech stack), Fully Managed (Wunderkind handles strategy/creative/optimization), or Hybrid partnership.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: $140M (as of 2026) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)
  - Total Funding: $151.85M across 8 rounds
  - Client-attributable revenue: Over $5 billion annually
  - Client base: 700+ brands (e.g., Harley-Davidson, Shinesty, Quad Lock)
- **Notable Investors**: Battery Ventures (led Series B in 2018), Silicon Valley Bank, Contour Venture Partners, Justin Yoshimura. Also acquired SmarterHQ (2020), Augur (2017), GoChime (2016).
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Revenue scale of $140M with proven ROI guarantees.
  - Recent product launches: AI Experiences, Shopify integration (Aug 2025), Build Framework for developers (Jun 2025), and partnerships with Braze and Bloomreach.
  - Global presence: Operations in 10 countries including UK, Canada, India, Australia, Norway.
  - Headcount: 397 employees (-21.4% YoY, indicating restructuring or contraction).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Largest identity network for marketers**: Proprietary graph tracking 9B+ devices and 2T+ digital events, providing higher match rates than typical ESPs/CDPs.
- **Revenue guarantee**: Wunderkind contractually guarantees a lift in revenue for clients, positioning itself as a top 1-3 revenue channel in client analytics.
- **Privacy-first, cookie-independent**: Works entirely with first-party data and consent; compliant with GDPR, CCPA, CPRA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2.
- **Seamless integration**: Does not require replatforming; plugs into existing marketing stacks (ESPs, CDPs, etc.).
- **Agentic AI decisioning**: Real-time optimization that adapts to individual behavior without manual rules.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand AI agentic capabilities**: Continued investment in autonomous decisioning and real-time personalization (e.g., AI Experiences).
- **Platform partnerships**: Deepening integrations with Braze, Bloomreach, Shopify to reach more merchants.
- **International growth**: Building presence in UK, Australia, and other markets with dedicated country managers.
- **Developer ecosystem**: Launching “Build” framework to attract developer-led integrations.
- **Privacy compliance as differentiator**: Emphasizing consent-based marketing as third-party cookies decline.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & equity**: Company equity, employee stock purchase plan, performance bonuses. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)
- **Benefits**: Dental, health, vision insurance; FSA; generous parental leave; family medical leave; commuter benefits; pet-friendly offices; free snacks/drinks. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)
- **Work arrangement**: On-site/hybrid with physical offices in NYC (HQ), Indianapolis, London, and Sydney. Typical time on-site not specified, but roles appear office-centric with flexibility.
- **Learning & culture**: Offers apprenticeship programs, job training, and conferences. The careers page describes a “two-way street” interviewing process and emphasis on mutual discovery of values and goals. [wunderkind.co](https://www.wunderkind.co/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical stack (Kubernetes, Python, React, Spark, Kafka, Google Cloud, etc.). Teams include ML engineers, data engineers, and product managers.
- **Caution**: Employer rating of 2.3/5 from 422 reviews on LinkedIn (work-life 2.6, culture 2.1, career 2.0) suggests employee satisfaction challenges, potentially linked to recent headcount reductions. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)

## Sources
1. [wunderkind.co - Homepage](https://www.wunderkind.co/)
2. [wunderkind.co - About](https://www.wunderkind.co/about)
3. [wunderkind.co - Careers](https://www.wunderkind.co/careers)
4. [linkedin.com - Wunderkind Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bewunderkind)
5. [builtin.com - Wunderkind Profile](https://builtin.com/company/wunderkind)

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