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# Founding Business Development Representative at Vessel Technologies

- **Company:** Vessel Technologies
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel/1718609d-8401-4f0b-984b-d49445553024

## Job description

Founding Business Development Representative

## About Vessel

Vessel is building the future of housing. We combine breakthrough design, advanced manufacturing, and first-principles thinking to tackle one of the world’s most pressing challenges: creating sustainable, attainable housing for all. This isn’t just construction—it’s a complete reimagining of how people live. Backed by Mosaic Ventures and Lennar, the nation’s largest homebuilder, Vessel is rapidly scaling to meet growing demand. We care deeply about every detail—from beauty and durability to efficiency and accessibility—because we believe everyone deserves a thoughtfully made home.

## Role

Sales is one of the best ways to learn how a business works - and as a Founding BDR at Vessel Technologies, you’ll have the opportunity to help build the sales motion from the ground up. Do you want to help define how an early-stage company goes to market?Do you want to move fast, take on more responsibility, and grow alongside the business?Are you fiercely driven, competitive, and excited by the challenge of figuring out what works? If yes, this could be an incredible role for you. As a Founding BDR, you’ll work closely with Vessel’s leadership to identify and engage potential customers, while helping us build, test, and refine the outbound motion that will ultimately scale with the company. This isn’t a role where you’ll simply inherit a playbook. We’re looking for someone excited to help create it.

## Responsibilities

Build the Motion: Help develop Vessel’s outbound strategy from the ground up - testing messaging, personas, channels, sequences, and approaches to figure out what consistently works. Generate Pipeline: Identify high-potential accounts and prospects, then engage them through thoughtful, persistent outreach. Own the Outreach: Craft compelling emails, make high-quality cold calls, and find creative ways to start conversations with our target customers. Test and Iterate: Treat sales like an experiment. Develop hypotheses, test new approaches, learn quickly from the results, and continuously improve the playbook. Bring the Market Back to Us: Develop a deep understanding of our prospects, their challenges, and how they think. Share those insights with the broader team to help shape our messaging and positioning. Work Closely With the Founders: Collaborate directly with Vessel’s founding team and have meaningful input into how we approach go-to-market. Help Build What Comes Next: As we find repeatability, help document successful processes and lay the groundwork for the BDR team we build around you. Learn and Grow: Develop a deep understanding of sales, customer acquisition, and go-to-market strategy while taking on increasing responsibility as Vessel grows.

## Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience Builder Mentality: You’re energized by ambiguity and excited by the opportunity to figure things out rather than being handed every answer. Competitive: You have a strong drive to win, improve, and consistently raise the bar. Curious: You want to understand why something works - or why it doesn’t - and use those learnings to improve. Highly Adaptable: You’re comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities and strategies can evolve quickly. Strong Communicator: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and persuade different types of prospects. Bias for Action: You’re willing to try things, learn quickly, and iterate rather than waiting for a perfect plan. Team Player: You’re excited to work closely with a small team, share what you’re learning, and contribute beyond the traditional boundaries of a BDR role. Resilient: You understand that building a new sales motion involves rejection and failed experiments — and you’re comfortable learning from both.

## What We Offer

Competitive compensation: $90,000 base salary + $30,000 variable compensation ($120,000 OTE) The opportunity to be the Founding BDR and have a direct impact on how Vessel builds its go-to-market engine Significant exposure to Vessel’s leadership team A fast path to increased ownership and career progression as the company grows The chance to learn not just how to execute a sales motion, but how to build one A culture that values experimentation, learning, ownership, and high performance The opportunity to join early and help shape the culture, processes, and team that come after you

## About Vessel Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vessel Technologies designs, manufactures, and distributes revolutionary multifamily apartment buildings engineered to lower construction costs, reduce risk, and deliver sustainable, technology-enhanced homes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/VC-backed)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Neil Rubler

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Real Estate, Construction Technology (PropTech/ConTech), Multifamily Housing
- **Target customers**: B2B – Landowners, developers, and operators who want to build multifamily housing (market rate, workforce, student, senior, and affordable/income-restricted). Also serves municipalities and community partners.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To offer each person an equal opportunity for an extraordinary life by providing access to homes that are exciting, sustainable, and attainably priced.” (vesseltechnologies.com)

## Products & Services
- **[Calypso]**: A midrise multifamily building system using a panelized, factory-manufactured system that ships flat and is assembled on site. Includes structural system (steel), interior/exterior walls, cabinetry, full interior fit-out, elevators, stairwells, sprinklers, lighting, and building-control systems (Vessel Intelligence). Delivered as a complete, ready-to-occupy building. Features nine-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows, in-unit washer/dryers, and is 100% electric and solar-compatible. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total units – has completed 2 buildings (36 units) in the Northeast, has 4 buildings (278 units) under construction, and a pipeline of ~1,600 units predominantly in the Northeast and Florida. Oldest building has been operating for over three years with strong resident retention and renewal rates. (vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Built In notes the company offers equity and performance bonuses, suggesting VC or institutional backing.
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding from initial Northeast projects into Florida; factory-manufactured panel system enables rapid build (6 months per building); targeting sites as small as 0.5 acres that are uneconomical for conventional development.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Factory-built panel system** reduces construction time to ~6 months, eliminates change orders, and provides fixed per-unit pricing ($140,000–$155,000 per unit) – a significant moat against traditional construction with its delays and cost overruns.
- **Universal Design (“Yoga”)** philosophy ensures spaces work for people of all ages, sizes, and abilities (from children to seniors to wheelchair users).
- **Sustainability edge**: 100% electric, solar-compatible, triple-glazed windows, R-21 insulation, designed for net-zero operations; Energy Star compliant. Older building has performed well for 3+ years.
- **Vessel Intelligence**: Integrated smart building controls (HVAC, lighting, sound) with APIs for operator security systems, providing differentiation in resident experience.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities are scaling production through factory manufacturing and expanding geographic footprint (Northeast and Florida markets). Targeting smaller, infill sites (as small as 0.5 acres) that traditional developers avoid.
- Focus on entitlement partnerships with landowners and communities, offering feasibility studies and fixed-price contracts to de-risk development.
- Emphasizing sustainability and energy efficiency as core product features, aligning with regulatory trends toward electrification and net-zero buildings.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture** with a clear social impact goal: addressing the housing crisis for over 50 million American families.
- **Hybrid workspace** – headquarters in New York, NY, with on-site work in Connecticut as well (Trade Partner Operations Manager role is on-site in CT). (builtin.com)
- **Compensation & equity**: Offers company equity, performance bonuses, 401(K), and disability insurance. (builtin.com)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Has a dedicated diversity and inclusion staff and a documented equal pay policy. (builtin.com)
- **Perks**: Health insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), technology-forward work environment.
- **Culture described as**: “We hustle hard, innovate boldly, and settle for nothing less than extraordinary… We're looking for visionaries who are relentless in their craft, hungry to build what’s next.” (vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Working on a physical product that combines construction, manufacturing, systems engineering, and smart building technology – ideal for those who want to build tangible, impactful infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Vessel Technologies – About](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/)
2. [Vessel Technologies – FAQ](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/faq)
3. [Vessel Technologies – Careers](https://www.vesseltechnologies.com/careers)
4. [Vessel Technologies – Lever Jobs](https://jobs.lever.co/myvessel)
5. [Built In – Vessel Technologies Profile](https://builtin.com/company/vessel-technologies-inc)

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