Senior Business Development Manager

Posted 21 Days Ago
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4 Locations
In-Office or Remote
125K-225K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Design
The Role
Full-cycle, revenue-carrying sales role focused on sourcing, winning, and expanding enterprise and mid-market creative partnerships. Own pipeline from outbound prospecting to close, lead discovery and pitch conversations with marketing leaders, collaborate with Creative Directors to build proposals, scope/pricing SOWs, and grow accounts into integrated long-term relationships across agency brands.
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About SketchDeck

Elevate your career working with leading global brands alongside inspiring colleagues in a flexible, remote-first environment. At SketchDeck, we aim to bring great people together to deliver exceptional impact. Through a combination of purpose-driven partnerships, technology, and global talent, we help brands realize their limitless potential with high-quality creative and digital solutions delivered on demand. We work with clients ranging from startups to well-known enterprise brands such as Dropbox, Rémy Cointreau, and Asana.

At SketchDeck, our values are more than just guiding principles—theyʼre the foundation of how we work and grow together globally. We commit to:

→ Win as a Team.

→ Find Solutions.

→ Take Ownership.

→ Do the Right Thing.

→ Be Human.

Guided by our vision to be the best creative partner, we empower our team to collaborate and innovate from anywhere with a flexible, remote-first culture. Our camera-on, Slack-heavy environment cultivates genuine relationships and collaboration, where we actively seek culture add, not just culture fit.


About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to help drive the next stage of growth across SketchDeck and the broader 24 Seven family of companies.

This is a full-cycle, revenue-carrying role for someone who enjoys opening doors, building relationships, and helping clients solve complex business challenges through creative solutions. You’ll own your pipeline from prospecting through close, partnering with our creative, strategy, and operations teams to deliver thoughtful, high-impact solutions that grow into long-term partnerships.

You’ll sell across a broad portfolio of services—including creative production, branding, content, digital experiences, paid media, and flexible talent solutions—connecting clients with the right expertise for their business.

We’re looking for someone who is entrepreneurial, consultative, and excited to help shape our business's future growth.

You will report to the SVP, Client Services.

Preferred: Eastern or Central Time Zone

What You’ll Do:

Business Development & Growth

  • Own the full sales cycle—from prospecting through close and long-term account growth
  • Build and manage a healthy pipeline through strategic outbound prospecting, networking, referrals, and relationship development
  • Identify and engage senior marketing, brand, and creative decision-makers, including VP and C-level stakeholders
  • Lead discovery conversations to uncover business challenges and position the right solutions
  • Develop proposals and commercial recommendations alongside creative and strategy teams
  • Negotiate scopes of work and commercial agreements
  • Maintain accurate forecasting and CRM hygiene
  • Sell across the 24 Seven house of agencies—partnering with SketchDeck, Futureman, Markacy, and 24 Seven to co-sell and unlock larger, integrated opportunities

Strategic Creative Partnership

  • Build trusted client relationships that extend beyond individual projects
  • Position SketchDeck and our partner agencies as strategic creative partners rather than transactional vendors
  • Identify opportunities to expand relationships across teams, service lines, and brands
  • Help clients understand how creative investment supports measurable business outcomes

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Creative Directors, Strategists, Project Directors, and Operations to develop thoughtful, executable solutions
  • Ensure work is scoped appropriately and transitions smoothly into delivery
  • Share market insights and client feedback that help shape future offerings and go-to-market strategy
What Success Looks Like:
  • Building and consistently converting a healthy pipeline of qualified opportunities
  • Winning new client partnerships while expanding existing relationships over time
  • Becoming a trusted advisor to marketing, brand, and creative leaders
  • Driving sustainable revenue growth across SketchDeck and the broader 24 Seven portfolio
  • Collaborating effectively across teams to deliver an exceptional client experience from first conversation through delivery

Requirements
  • 7+ years of business development experience within a creative, marketing, digital, or advertising agency, with a proven track record of winning new business.
  • Demonstrated success carrying and achieving revenue targets, with experience managing consultative sales cycles from prospecting through close.
  • Experience selling complex, solution-based services to marketing, brand, or creative leaders at mid-market and enterprise organizations.
  • A self-starter who consistently builds pipeline through outbound prospecting, networking, and relationship development, rather than relying primarily on inbound opportunities.
  • Experience partnering with creative, strategy, and operations teams to develop proposals, scope work, and transition opportunities into successful client engagements.
Preferred
  • Experience selling across multiple creative or marketing service lines (branding, creative production, content, digital, media, talent, etc.)
  • Existing relationships within consumer brands, retail, beauty, fashion, luxury, hospitality, or CPG organizations
  • Experience managing six- and seven-figure engagements or growing strategic client partnerships over time

Benefits

Compensation:
Base Salary: $125k – $150k
Commission: Uncapped — your earnings grow as your book grows
Expected OTE (fully ramped): $150k – $225k+
*Individual compensation packages are based on experience, demonstrated performance, market factors, and other job-related considerations.

  • 401(k) with company match
  • Fully remote working environment (established pre-COVID and continuing forward)
  • Paid time off that grows with tenure
  • Annual company retreat
  • Computer hardware of your choice (up to $1,500)
  • $500 towards your office setup expenses
  • To work with a talented team of designers, team members, and engineers

Inclusivity Statement
We value diverse perspectives and are committed to an environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work daily. If youʼre excited about the role but donʼt meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply—studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they meet all the requirements. Weʼre interested in what you can bring to our team, whether for this role or another opportunity in the future.

SketchDeck is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil status, pregnancy (or pregnancy-related conditions), gender identity or expression, transgender status or gender reassignment, race, color, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other grounds or characteristic that is protected under the law.

If you require reasonable accommodation during the interview process or employment, please contact us at [email protected]. Weʼre here to support you in every step of the process.

Skills Required

  • 7+ years in client-facing roles within a creative agency
  • Experience selling creative services and carrying quota
  • Quota experience (preferred $2M+ annual quota)
  • Experience building pipeline through outbound prospecting
  • Strong creative fluency across branding, campaigns, digital experiences, content, and production
  • Working knowledge of Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and digital/web production workflows
  • Comfortable leading client presentations and pitches with ability to win work
  • Experience scoping, pricing, and negotiating SOWs (deal sizes $100K - $1M+)
  • Proven ability to grow accounts and expand relationships over time
  • Strong written and verbal communication
  • Experience navigating executive-level conversations (VP/CMO) and complex stakeholder environments
  • Ability to collaborate across creative, strategy, and operations to shape executable solutions
  • Industry experience in fashion, beauty, retail, luxury, or consumer/CPG brands
  • Based in the East Coast or Central time zone
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The Company
HQ: Walnut, CA , CA
61 Employees
Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Design matters. It drives new customers, retention, employee loyalty and ultimately success. It’s harder than ever to design at the scale business needs. There are more social channels, more apps, more employees, more presentations, more events, more deadlines. We are the first service able to protect and develop visual brand across an entire company. We do this by bringing people and technology together. Our platform makes design easy and available to everyone who needs it. Our talented design team know the brand, and have the skills and scale to cover all needs. We make design work for business.

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