Business Development Representative – EMEA
As our first BDR in Europe, you’ll shape how Waitwhile grows across EMEA, and learn a ton while having fun doing it.
Join Waitwhile as our first BDR in Europe and help build our outbound motion in EMEA from the ground up. You’ll have real ownership, make a visible impact, and grow alongside the company.
Who we are💙
Here at Waitwhile we’re on a mission to eliminate the 1 trillion hours people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform combines virtual waitlists, scheduling, real-time updates, messaging, and analytics to make access to places, services, and events seamless, online or in person. Trusted by 10,000+ companies, Waitwhile has already helped millions of people enjoy a radically better waiting experience. Our clients include IKEA, Nike, Costco, Delta Airlines and many more. We’re just getting started, and we need your help.
The role
We’re looking for a Business Development Representative to help expand Waitwhile’s presence in EMEA and bring our platform to even more businesses across Europe.
You’ll own the front end of the sales process, from researching target accounts and engaging decision-makers through cold calls, email, and LinkedIn to booking qualified meetings. Your focus will be on the Nordics and new European markets, across industries including retail, luxury retail, travel, hospitality, and healthcare.
You’ll work closely with a Stockholm-based Account Executive, as well as with Marketing and sales leadership, to build pipeline, refine messaging, and shape how outbound is done at Waitwhile in EMEA.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys prospecting, building new markets from scratch, and making a visible impact on the growth of a fast-growing SaaS company,
What you’ll do
Drive outbound prospecting: Reach decision-makers in retail, luxury retail, travel, hospitality, and healthcare through a balanced mix of cold calls, email, and LinkedIn.
Book qualified meetings: Generate interest and set up meetings for your Account Executive, and help turn them into real sales opportunities.
Research and personalize: Identify key accounts and buyers, and tailor your outreach where it matters while keeping strong activity levels.
Help build the outbound playbook: Partner with sales leadership to refine targeting, messaging, talk tracks, and sequences for the EMEA market.
Work smart with modern tools: Prospect and execute outreach in Amplemarket (with AI-powered research and personalization), Trellus, and ZoomInfo, and keep clean data in HubSpot.
Collaborate cross-functionally: Act on engagement from Marketing campaigns and share feedback with Sales, Marketing, and RevOps to improve messaging and targeting.
Share market insights: Bring insights and objections from your conversations with prospects back to the wider team.
What skills you need
Around 1–2 years of B2B sales experience. Earlier in your career with relevant internships and a strong drive? We still want to hear from you.
Fluent English and full professional proficiency in German or French.
Confidence on the phone and strong written communication, especially in cold outreach.
Curiosity about how businesses operate, not just about booking meetings.
Coachability and a bias for action: you test, learn, and adjust quickly.
An ownership mindset and a competitive drive to hit and exceed targets.
Bonus Skills & Attributes:
Experience in B2B SaaS sales, ideally selling SaaS into retail.
Experience from other B2B environments such as fintech, pharma, or other tech-related sales.
Familiarity with tools such as HubSpot, Amplemarket, ZoomInfo, or Salesloft.
A relevant education, such as a university degree or a vocational sales program (YH).
A great place to work❤️
We want Waitwhile to be an incredible place to work. We offer great benefits and perks, flexible working hours and lots of interesting challenges. We believe in making work fun and rewarding and care about your development and are committed to your success. Join Waitwhile at this exciting stage and help shape both our future and your own.
Waitwhile has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. We aim to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. If this sounds like a good fit for you, what are you waiting for? Apply for this job!
Stockholm
Grow with us.
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Life balance
We're parents, care-givers and multi-faceted humans that don't want to spend all our time working. We do great work, but also encourage a great work-life balance.
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Autonomy
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Great benefits
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Professional growth
We want to see you thrive. You will contribute to the larger vision of Waitwhile while growing in your career journey.
About Waitwhile
Waitwhile is a wait management platform that helps businesses deliver better waiting experiences for their customers through automated, personalized and smartphone-based line experiences.
Waitwhile has improved the wait experience for over 250 million guests and collectively given people back over 100k years they would have otherwise wasted waiting in line. Our customers include IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Google, Facebook and thousands of other businesses looking to improve their waiting experiences.
The company was founded in 2017 in San Francisco with the mission to eliminate the 1 Trillion hours that humans waste standing in line every year. Waitwhile has secured $12 million in funding from investors including CRV and has offices in the US and Sweden.