Business Development Managers · Kansas City, MO

Nobody envies the work.
Everybody envies the reward.

WLX | WLE is hiring its next class of Business Development Managers. No sales experience. No logistics background. Paid training, a base salary that transitions into commission with no ceiling — in the heart of Kansas City.

NEXT ACADEMY CLASS STARTS MID-AUGUST — 10 SEATS OPEN

0Experience required
12 wksPaid Broker Academy
No capOn commission. Ever.
KCCrown Center HQ
The WLE Broker Academy

We don't hire brokers.
We build them.

MILE 1 · WEEKS 1–4

Learn the industry

Paid classroom training: how freight moves, how brokers make money, how to price a load, and the sales process we run every day.

MILE 2 · WEEKS 5–8

Ride shotgun

Shadow senior BDMs on live calls and real loads. Make your first dials with a coach on the line and feedback the same hour.

MILE 3 · WEEKS 9–12

Take the desk

Your own desk, your own prospect list, your own book. Base salary protects you while your commission engine spins up.

Cohorts start together. Train together. Compete forever.

This job is a trade.
Here are both sides.

What it costs

  • High-volume phone work — dozens of calls, every single day
  • Early mornings and late nights when your book demands it
  • Hearing "no" far more often than "yes," especially at first
  • A scoreboard everyone can see — including on your bad weeks

What it pays

  • Income tied to your effort, not your tenure or your title
  • A book of business that is yours and compounds every year
  • A skill set — professional selling — that never stops being valuable
  • Be part of a team that cares about each other and the results we're driving
  • President's Club: our top BDMs earn an annual trip — winner plus one, all expenses paid
The scoreboard

Your paycheck keeps score

Base salary — guaranteed from day one$65K
Realistic first year earnings$85K
Top first-year BDM earned$145K
Top wage earner in 2025$1.5M
Commission ceilingNONE

Full benefits ride along: medical · dental · vision · 401(k) · PTO

It's on our wall. Literally.

Six values.
Zero posters we don't live by.

Others First

Selfless actions for the good of: 1) Mission, 2) Team, 3) Individual, 4) Community.

Absolute Ownership

We are responsible for everything we touch. No victims, no excuses.

Open and Honest

We are transparent in all we do with everyone we communicate with.

Results Driven

We approach every task with the mission in mind and a focus on outcomes.

Continuous Improvement

Obsess about improving self, teammate, business and customer every day.

Get Weird

No problem too small. No idea too strange. No opportunity to be content.

Who wins here

We recruit like a team,
because we are one.

Profile 01

The Athlete

You've kept score your whole life. You know what practice at 6 AM buys you. This is the job where that wiring finally pays literal dividends.

Profile 02

The Grinder

Bartender, trainer, server, door-knocker — you already out-hustle everyone around you. Bring that motor somewhere with no ceiling.

Profile 03

The Homecoming

You grew up in KC or graduated nearby, and you've been waiting for a reason to come back. Here's a career, not just a reason.

Life at WLX | WLE

Crown Center offices.
A view of downtown. A floor with a pulse.

Downtown Kansas City skyline from the WLX | WLE offices at Crown Center
The view from our floor — Crown Center, KC
WLX | WLE lobby signage
Home base
Company celebration with pool table and XE marquee letters
We celebrate wins
President's Club

Top BDMs earn the trip. Every year.

Our annual President's Club rewards top producers with an all-expenses-paid trip — you and a plus-one, on us. These shots are from this year's trip. Earn your seat at the next one.

WLX | WLE President's Club group at an oceanfront resort at sunset
All expenses paid. You and a plus-one.
President's Club trip celebration on an oceanfront deck
President's Club — this year's winners
Academy classes are forming now

Bet on yourself.

Applications take five minutes. Strong candidates hear from us within 48 hours — and can be on the floor with the next cohort.

Apply to the Academy