Top Entry Level Jobs in Chicago, IL

Generate and qualify sales opportunities through cold outreach, inbound lead response, discovery calls, and relationship building with trucking carriers. Collaborate with Account Executives on outreach and lead handoffs, develop expertise in Toro’s transportation management software and industry, understand competitors, and consistently achieve qualified-opportunity and sourced-ARR quotas. This is an in-office Chicago role designed for upcoming graduates beginning careers in software sales.

Supports the global compliance program by monitoring regulations, researching requirements, maintaining regulatory intelligence, preparing reports and dashboards, comparing regional rules, and assisting with compliance risk assessments. The role collaborates across sustainability, quality, sourcing, legal, and category management teams while developing expertise in packaging, product safety, environmental compliance, labeling, chemicals, and sustainability regulations.

Drive new enterprise business across assigned global accounts by generating pipeline, engaging IT, science, and data stakeholders, forecasting sales, presenting solutions, negotiating complex deals, and closing new business. Build relationships across multiple personas and executive levels, manage account data in Salesforce, collaborate with marketing, product, customer success, and partners, and apply structured sales methodologies such as MEDDICC to achieve revenue targets.

Build Fact Base’s U.S. customer base for its ZUMEN cloud platform. The Account Executive will conduct outbound B2B sales, visit manufacturing customers and prospects, develop market opportunities, build relationships, and help establish the company’s early U.S. operations. The role involves approximately three days per week visiting customers, two days in the Schaumburg office, and travel throughout the United States as needed.

The Sales Representative will prospect new customers, manage existing client relationships, and refine sales skills while collaborating with the operations and product teams.

Owns the sales process for a cloud-based financial planning and analytics SaaS platform serving financial institutions. Responsibilities include territory planning, prospecting, pipeline development, enterprise deal management, product demonstrations, pricing and contract negotiation, forecasting in Salesforce, and cross-functional collaboration. The role requires building executive-level client relationships, achieving revenue targets, and traveling to client sites up to 50% of the time.

Support traders by troubleshooting and resolving proprietary trading system issues, documenting incidents, monitoring system components, analyzing logs, and identifying root causes. Automate manual support tasks, develop proactive monitoring tools, improve support processes, and maintain knowledge resources. The role requires collaboration with developers and peers, strong communication, critical thinking, and participation in on-call and alternate-shift coverage.

Develop and test high-performance C++ applications for trading platforms. Collaborate with traders and experienced engineers to translate requirements into efficient solutions, while monitoring, profiling, and troubleshooting systems for reliability and stability. The role provides mentorship and exposure to the complete trading-system development lifecycle, including production support, performance tuning, multithreaded programming, and real-time systems.

Leads Rundoo’s Implementation team, owning customer go-live performance, ARR attainment, resource allocation, forecasting, operating cadence, escalation processes, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration. The role builds scalable, client-centered implementation processes, improves forecast accuracy and capacity planning, and establishes accountability across Implementation Managers. Requires Chicago-based office work at least four days weekly and experience leading post-sale teams with measurable delivery or revenue targets.

Participate in a structured underwriting development program while evaluating commercial business risks, financial information, industry trends, coverage needs, and pricing strategies. Partner with brokers, customers, and internal teams to create insurance solutions, make risk-selection decisions, and support profitable growth. Build underwriting, negotiation, communication, and relationship-management skills through formal training, mentorship, and hands-on experience.