Senior Business Development Manager

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

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

• Eastern or Central Time Zone
• 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