Business Development Manager (AI Apprenticeships & Workforce Upskilling)

Meet AiCore

AiCore exists to help large employers in England get every employee using AI to drive revenue, cut costs and boost productivity through role specific training pathways that are fully government funded.

Our track record (proof we can deliver)

• Originated at Imperial College London, where we founded the Machine Learning Society with DeepMind sponsorship and educated 6,000+ students pro bono.
• Selected by NVIDIA to deliver specialised training via their Deep Learning Institute across top UK universities.
• Became the fastest-growing commercial AI bootcamp in the UK, training 1,500+ people annually during Covid-19.
• Partnered nationally with the UK Department for Education, delivering outcomes that contributed to an estimated £17,310,932 tax uplift and supporting 740 people into employment.
• Apprenticeship business holds Grade 2 Ofsted and 91% completions.

The Role: Business Development Manager (AI Apprenticeships & Workforce Upskilling)

As a Sales Rep at AiCore, you’ll be responsible for selling apprenticeship-led AI capability building to employers. You’ll be a first point of commercial contact, representing AiCore with high standards and urgency as we scale.

This is a role for someone who wants to win in a market that’s moving fast, and who wants real autonomy and ownership in a remote-first team.

Sales Team Vision

We’re building a leadership factory: bring in high performers, develop them fast, and promote ownership-minded people into bigger responsibility. We’re embedding AI into every function (including sales) to move faster and free you up to focus on what matters.

Who This Is For

You’ll likely thrive here if you:

• Believe AI is reshaping knowledge work, and want to be at the forefront of that shift.
• Have a strong sense of responsibility and want autonomy, upside, and ownership.
• Want to earn well and make a measurable difference.
• Love performance environments, direct feedback, and real accountability.

What We Offer

• Daily Sales Training & 1-1 coaching
• Professional Skill Development (leadership, business strategy, marketing, etc.)
• Performance based career growth (the best get promoted)
• Uncapped commissions

What We Expect From You

Responsibilities

• Run a high-tempo sales cadence: outreach, discovery, follow-up, and tight pipeline hygiene.
• Sell consultatively: map apprenticeship-led AI capability building to business outcomes.
• Work our process, improve it, and contribute feedback loops across the team.
• Use AI-enabled tooling to reduce admin and increase selling time (we’re serious about AI in every function).
• Be a team player, win together, share learnings, raise the bar.

Results (example targets)

• Consistent pipeline creation (meetings booked with qualified employer stakeholders)
• Strong conversion through discovery → proposal → close
• High-quality handoffs to delivery/customer teams to protect outcomes and retention

(Final targets depend on segment and motion; the bar is high.)

Requirements

• Proven track record in phone/video-led sales (this is essential).
• Comfortable selling to senior stakeholders and navigating multi-threaded deals.
• Strong self-management in a remote environment.
• Coachable, direct, and able to give/receive candid feedback.
• High standards, high output, high integrity.

Location

• Remote-first (UK-centric business; collaboration across time zones).

Compensation

• £55k Base Salary + Uncapped Commission
• OTE £100k-£180k+

Benefits 

1. Big Upside: High-Ticket Earning Potential: We believe in paying for outcomes. You’ll have meaningful commission upside (commission for every employee) and a comp package designed to be competitive and performance-rewarding.
2. AI Sector Specialism (High Demand, Right Now): You’re selling in one of the fastest-moving markets: helping employers build real AI capability through apprenticeships because boards are demanding it and most organisations lack internal capability today. You’ll be in a category with momentum, selling something businesses actively want and need.
3. Remote-First + Flexible Autonomy: Remote-first by design: less commuting, more life. We hire adults, trust them, and optimise for ownership, not micromanagement.
4. Work Directly With the Founder (Flat Structure) Flat structure means high exposure, fast learning, and the chance to “skip rungs.” You’ll work close to leadership and have real influence on how we build the sales function.
5. Wealth + Lifestyle Optionality: Dubai Relocation: For top performers who want it, we offer relocation sponsorship for our UAE office in Dubai: serious lifestyle upside and long-term optionality.