Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SketchDeck is a creative agency that collaborates with global brands to deliver high-quality creative and digital solutions. They are seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to own the pipeline and drive client partnerships, focusing on building long-term relationships with marketing and creative leaders across mid-market and enterprise companies.
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
- Full-cycle opportunity ownership — You own opportunities from outreach through close, carrying defined revenue targets and converting pipeline into long-term partnerships
- Trusted strategic client partnerships — Clients rely on you to guide them, expanding conversations beyond individual projects
- Creative-led business development — You sell creative strategy, not just deliverables, and help clients understand the value of strong creative
- Sustainable, long-term growth — You build relationships through thoughtful engagements, driving consistent growth rather than one-off wins
- Clear ownership of growth performance — You own pipeline health, conversion, revenue contribution, and account expansion
Skills
- 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
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
- 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
Company Overview
SketchDeck combines people and software to make high quality design fast, effortless and accessible to your whole organization. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://sketchdeck.com.