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# Network Development Associate at Dedale Intelligence

- **Company:** Dedale Intelligence
- **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dedale-intelligence/f4c2d679-985c-4da1-9c7d-28403ef56274

## Job description

❗NOTE: This is an Ongoing Opportunity - We're Always Hiring Top Talent 🚀

As Dedale is committed to continuous growth and building a team of exceptional talent, this position remains open year-round. We are not bound by a specific hiring quota, but are focused on finding the right long-term fit for both the role and our culture. If you see this posting, it means that we are actively reviewing applications!

About Dedale:

Dedale is the differentiating source of strategic intelligence in the technology space.

With a unique team of over 250 full-time employees, Dedale leverages a network of over 25,000 market professionals to deliver on-the-ground strategic intelligence to investors and corporates, with a core focus around North America and Europe.

Our team gathers top talents with diverse and international backgrounds. Our Research & Investment team has the strongest expertise in the ecosystem on B2B Software due diligence, and we are surrounded by a network of mentors including high-profile tech founders and investors.

Our Culture:

Dedale gathers a group of highly talented international individuals (incl. US, Chinese, Filipino, French, Moroccan, Latvian, Lebanese nationalities among others).

The leadership team is composed of experienced investment professionals & management consultants (ex-McKinsey, BCG Project Leaders & managers).

Our advisory board is extremely high profile, including some of the most successful investors worldwide (incl. Managing Partners of the largest PE and Growth Equity funds, and Tech unicorn entrepreneurs).

We seek to develop a dream team of outstanding investment analysts with strong academic and professional achievements and a passion for investing and technology.

Your Role:

This is a founding role in Dedale's new Lisbon office, with real room to grow beyond sourcing execution into shaping the team's strategy and build-out as the office scales.

- Cold call and directly approach senior executives and subject-matter experts to introduce Dedale and build genuine, lasting relationships
- Build deep, senior-level relationships with C-suite executives and top-tier advisors, moving beyond transactional outreach to become a genuine long-term point of contact within the network
- Proactively identify and source high-quality industry experts and advisors through multiple channels: LinkedIn, professional networks, industry events, and targeted outreach
- Qualify expert profiles through phone screening, assessing relevant experience, seniority, and fit for specific research mandates
- Build sector fluency across B2B technology and software verticals to know precisely who the right expert is for a given mandate
- Coordinate closely with research analysts and project leads to translate mandate requirements into a targeted sourcing strategy
- Build and maintain long-term pipelines of vetted experts across priority sectors, re-engaging past contacts for new relevant mandates
- Conduct outreach across multiple time zones to engage senior experts across our core US and European markets
- Track and improve sourcing funnel performance — outreach response, call conversion, and expert reactivation rates
- Maintain accurate expert records in our internal database
- Identify and pilot new sourcing channels to continuously expand our global expert network
- Support ad hoc sourcing and business development tasks as needed
- Grow with the office: as a founding member of the Lisbon team, there's a clear path from sourcing execution into building and leading the team and strategy as the role and the office mature

Your Profile:

Across the firm, we attract motivated, intellectually curious, and analytically rigorous young professionals who are passionate about learning and creating impact. It's highly likely you'll move forward in the process if:

- You have a Bachelor's degree with 1-3 years of experience in sourcing, business development, recruitment, or a similarly relationship-driven, target-oriented role
- You have excellent verbal communication skills: confident, persuasive, and comfortable picking up the phone to cold call senior executives and industry experts
- You have a strong drive to succeed in a target-oriented, high-volume outreach environment
- You can quickly grasp business context and research needs, and translate them into a practical sourcing strategy
- You're resilient and persistent: comfortable with rejection and able to stay motivated through high call volumes
- You have strong organizational skills and are comfortable maintaining and working from a structured database/CRM
- Prior experience in executive search, headhunting, sales development (BDR/SDR), or recruitment agency environments is a strong advantage
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English are a must; French, German, Spanish, or Italian is a plus

Cherry on the Cake:

- You're passionate about technology and the B2B tech space, even without a formal background in it
- You like collaborating as a team and delivering your best as an individual

Recruitment Process:

- 1 HR Chat
- Interview with Country Manager
- Pre-Case Interview with a Senior Manager
- Case Study and Debrief with a VP
- Final on-site interview with Managing Director and the HR team

## About Dedale Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dedale Intelligence provides AI-augmented strategic market and competitive intelligence for investors and corporates in the technology sector.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Scale-up, no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Benjamin Forlani (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Strategic Intelligence, Market Research, Competitive Intelligence, B2B Software M&A Advisory
- **Target customers**: Private Equity funds, Corporate Executives, M&A Advisors (B2B, enterprise focus)
- **Mission or purpose**: To become the most trusted and sought-after source of global strategic intelligence in the technology space, driving positive change in the investment and corporate world.

## Products & Services
- **Target Investigation**: Deep-dive due diligence on specific targets using proprietary methodology enhanced by AI.
- **Market Investigation**: Market intelligence combining AI-driven data aggregation with human-validated insights from customers, competitors, and channels.
- **Deals, Valuation & Comparables**: Continuous tracking of transactions, valuation levels, and comparable analysis across 100+ technology segments.
- **My Intelligence (Bespoke)**: Custom, exclusive intelligence for sensitive topics, blending AI synthesis with human-led research, voice-of-customer, and competitive analysis.
- **Technology Market Analysis**: 100+ AI-supported market analyses covering horizontal and vertical technology spaces in North America & Europe.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 170+ customers in North America & Europe; 3,000+ tech companies investigated in depth; 75% of top active tech M&A firms leverage Dedale Intelligence.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed (bootstrapped/private growth)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew from ~100 to 402 employees (LinkedIn, 2026); offices in Paris, New York, London, Munich, Cebu, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Cairo; team spans 20+ nationalities; high customer retention (recurring client base).

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI + Human Hybrid Model**: Proprietary AI-powered analytics combined with deep human-led due diligence and industry veteran community.
- **Global Reach with Local Roots**: Coverage across North America and Europe with local-language investigation capabilities; team on 4 continents.
- **Technology-Centric Focus**: 100% dedicated to the tech sector, covering 200+ software & technology segments.
- **Trusted by Top Firms**: Over $1 trillion in private equity capital relies on their research; 75% of leading tech M&A firms use them.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand global footprint (especially North America & Europe) while deepening local coverage.
- Continue integrating AI to accelerate aggregation and analysis while maintaining human validation.
- Scale the team and platform to become the definitive source of truth for strategic tech intelligence.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values "smart, hungry, and humble" individuals; down-to-earth, inclusive, diverse, modern, and global environment. Emphasis on impact over face-time.
- **Work Flexibility**: Remote and flexible work opportunities; hybrid model; no strict face-time policy.
- **Growth & Development**: Coaching and mentorship programs, executive coaching for emerging leaders, cross-functional career paths, training programs, and leave of absence after 3 years.
- **Perks**: Local high-coverage insurance, paid vacation, personal/sick days, monthly team outings, dress-as-you-are policy.
- **Team & Community**: 402 employees from 20+ nationalities; offices in Paris, New York, London, Munich, Cebu, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Cairo.
- **Active Hiring**: 10+ open positions including Customer Success, Data Operations, Strategy, Finance, and Engineering roles (as of mid-2026).

## Sources
1. [dedale.com](https://www.dedale.com/)
2. [dedale.com/about-us/the-company](https://www.dedale.com/about-us/the-company)
3. [dedale.com/about-us/life-at-dedale-intelligence](https://www.dedale.com/about-us/life-at-dedale-intelligence)
4. [linkedin.com/company/dedale-intelligence](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dedale-intelligence)
5. [builtin.com/company/dedale-intelligence](https://builtin.com/company/dedale-intelligence)

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