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Happy Saturday everyone!! Looking to see if anyone can provide a referral or point me in the direction for job opportunities. Potentially in the tech space. I have years of experience in Marketing! Currently working in the tech/realestate industry as a Marketing Advisor. Microsoft Zillow Inc Paypal Amazon Deloitte Google Facebook (Meta) Dell
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Hi Guys,
Can anyone refer me to BCG
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Biz dev just means sales. You are going to be cold-messaging people on LinkedIn and email.
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nope, those are not stable. unless ur working for a harvey, anthropic etc
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which one - huge difference between legal ai tool vs AI foundational llm
I wouldn't touch one of those roles with a 10 ft pole
Yeah I am inclined to agree. AI is a bubble. Recipe for disaster being a cost center in an AI start up.
Business development at a place like that = sales. If that’s what you want then go for it!
Key point. You’re basically pivoting to a career in tech sales. Sales can pay well if you’re good at it and/or get lucky, but don’t have very attractive long term career prospects imo, other than more sales. And I know it’s a sunk cost, but if I’m going to pivot to an industry that doesn’t need my legal degree, I would want to feel really good about it.
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For additional context, this is for a non-legal business development role.
Completely up to you but coming from someone that did that move recently it is a different role - you either like it or you don’t. I went from a contracts officer role to a tech transfer office role at a uni (basically helped find opportunities to sell researchers IP in a relevant market) and although transferable skills you lose a lot of your contract drafting, negotiating and advising skills. I lasted 3 months before I called quits, I just couldn’t do it. Now I’m in house in commercial contracts where I do everything mentioned earlier except for BD 😅
Echoing that this is a sales position. If that’s what you want, go for it, but I wouldn’t unless I was desperate to leave the practice of law.