Senior Business Development Manager

SketchDeck is a company that collaborates with leading global brands to deliver high-quality creative and digital solutions. They are seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to source, win, and grow high-value client partnerships while managing the pipeline and achieving new business outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Own your pipeline end-to-end—from prospecting through close and expansion
• Build a pipeline through outbound efforts; you generate your own opportunities
• Identify and engage key decision-makers across marketing, brand, and creative teams, up to the VP and CMO level
• Lead discovery and pitch conversations to win the work
• Advance opportunities with clarity, urgency, and strong follow-through
• Grow accounts by identifying opportunities across teams, regions, and workstreams
• Expand engagements into more integrated, long-term partnerships
• Maintain disciplined CRM hygiene and provide accurate weekly forecasts
• Sell across the 24 Seven house of agencies—partnering with SketchDeck, Futureman, Markacy, and 24 Seven to co-sell and unlock larger, integrated opportunities
• Lead consultative conversations that connect business challenges to creative solutions
• Guide clients through the full creative process—from brief and positioning through execution and delivery
• Build and deliver proposals and pitch narratives with Creative Directors and Strategists
• Position our agencies as a strategic creative partner, not just a delivery team
• Clearly articulate how creative work—branding, campaigns, digital experiences, and content—drives measurable impact
• Partner with Creative Directors, Strategists, Project Directors, and Operations to scope work accurately from the start
• Hand off cleanly to delivery with clear briefs and aligned expectations
• Bring market and client insights back to inform offering development
• Align with Operations early on resourcing and timelines to keep ambition feasible

Requirements:

• 7+ years in client-facing roles within a creative agency, with experience selling creative services
• Proven track record of carrying and hitting quota ($2M+ annually preferred)
• Experience building pipeline through outbound prospecting
• Strong creative fluency—comfortable speaking to branding, campaigns, digital experiences, content, and production
• Working knowledge of creative tools and workflows (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, digital/web production)
• Comfortable leading client presentations and pitches, with the ability to win the work
• Experience scoping, pricing, and negotiating SOWs ($100K–$1M+ deal sizes)
• Proven ability to grow accounts and expand relationships over time
• Strong written and verbal communication—clear, direct, and confident
• Experience navigating executive-level conversations and complex stakeholder environments
• Ability to collaborate across creative, strategy, and operations to shape solutions that are both compelling and executable
• Industry experience in fashion, beauty, retail, luxury, or consumer/CPG brands strongly preferred
• Based in the East Coast or Central time zone preferred