Job Description
Job Description
New Business Development & Partnerships Lead
To apply, here’s what you need to do:
- Read this job ad, do the responsibilities align with your skills and background?
- Submit a cover letter! Tell us about yourself and share what you can bring to the table.
- Complete your application by answering our additional questions.
OverviewWe’re a creative production agency that partners with enterprise brands (think Microsoft, Amazon) to tell complex stories through design, video, animation, and immersive content.
We’re hiring a
New Business & Partnerships Lead to build and run a relationship-led growth engine. This person understands enterprise marketing and creative needs, brings a real network of decision-makers, and is responsible for both opening new client relationships and helping existing accounts grow.
This is a strategic, consultative, hands-on role for someone who knows how to open doors, nurture trust inside complex organizations, and turn conversations into long-term partnerships.
What you’ll bring
- Proven track record in business development, partnerships, or consultative sales for:
- A creative agency, production company, or similar professional services firm
- Or enterprise-focused solutions with complex, multi-stakeholder buying cycles
- A meaningful existing network (rolodex) of enterprise-level contacts:
- Marketing, brand, comms, L&D, HR, or innovation leaders
- You know how to ask for intros, nurture relationships, and reconnect.
- Comfort and willingness to use your personal LinkedIn profile as a primary channel for outreach, nurturing, and thought leadership, and a place to share select case studies, insights, and wins (in alignment with our brand)
- Strong storytelling and framing skills – you can take a complex initiative and frame how creative content solves a business problem.
- Experience with long sales cycles and enterprise procurement processes; you’re patient, persistent, and organized.
- High emotional intelligence:
- You know when to push, when to pause, and how to be direct without being abrasive.
- A collaborative mindset:
You see yourself as part of a Growth Pod with the CEO, Account Manager, and Marketing – not a lone wolf.
What you’ll own
1. Relationship-led new business - Use your existing network and relationships (agency, brand, enterprise marketing, L&D, internal comms, etc.) to open doors.
- Build and maintain a focused list of target enterprise accounts aligned to our ideal client profile.
- Leverage your LinkedIn profile for:
- Thoughtful 1:1 outreach and follow-up
- Warm intros and referrals
- Sharing relevant work and insights that attract the right conversations
- Lead discovery and early strategy conversations with new prospects, partnering with our Account Manager when needed.
- Translate needs into clear, right-sized proposals that align our capabilities with the client’s priorities.
2. Strategic account expansion - Partner with the Account Manager to create Account Growth Plans for key clients.
- Identify whitespace opportunities : new departments, geographies, programs, or use cases where our work could add value.
- Support Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) by:
- Highlighting expansion angles
- Framing new ideas and pilot concepts
- Turning client priorities into concrete next steps and proposals
3. Pipeline design & discipline - Build and maintain a healthy, visible pipeline of opportunities across existing accounts and new logos.
- Track stages, next actions, and likelihood to close in our CRM (HubSpot)
- Work with leadership to forecast revenue and prioritize where we focus.
- Continuously refine our approach – what messaging works, which verticals respond, what sequences convert.
4. Collaboration with marketing & creative - Collaborate with marketing to shape case studies, reels, one-pagers, and micro-showcases you can deploy in outreach.
- Provide feedback on which messages resonate most with enterprise buyers.
- Represent our creative team with credibility – you don’t need to be a designer, but you should understand how creative work is scoped, delivered, and evaluated.
If you read this and thought,
“That’s how I already work, just give me the right team and stories,” we’d love to talk.E04JI800auv04085oyx
Compensation details: 80000-120000 Yearly Salary
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