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Blue State

Location:
United States, NY, DC, Oakland

Category:
Sales

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

73250.00 - 80000.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Help us land our dream clients — and yours. We are seeking a Business Development Manager to join our Partnerships team to provide support to our business development team and help us grow our business. The ideal candidate is an excellent project manager and writer and has demonstrated success supporting sales or account management at an agency, consulting, or communications firm. You will support the Partnerships team in the pursuit of new business opportunities and help develop and manage a sales pipeline. You will work across the agency and with cross-discipline teams to develop proposals, pitches, presentations, and new scopes of work. You will help draft and project manage these deliverables and support agency thought leadership internally and externally. This is a rare opportunity to work with a client base that spans nonprofit, advocacy, corporate, and political campaign sectors.

Job Responsibility:

Manage the sales process for proposal development, pitches, and outbound efforts
Help the Partnerships team sell Blue State’s offerings and services to brands, nonprofits, advocacy organizations, and progressive political candidates and organizations
Project manage and help draft memos, proposals, pitch decks, and related collateral in collaboration with creative, strategy, and technical teams
Provide logistical support and process management throughout the sales lifecycle — from the proposal and pitch process through contracting
Lead qualifying calls and discussions with prospective clients in partnership with VPs and SVPs on the Partnerships team
Effectively communicate and strategize with internal teams to help meet prospective clients’ goals
Help build, manage, and continually develop a sales pipeline to achieve new business targets
Work with senior Partnerships leaders to bring in new leads across targeted verticals through traditional and creative approaches to outbound sales
Conduct research on Blue State leads, prospects, and clients, and clearly communicate findings to senior leadership
Leverage SalesForce to help manage, track and operationalize the sales pipeline
pull reports and contribute to ongoing business analysis as needed

Requirements:

Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience, ideally in business development or account/project management within an agency, consulting, or communications firm, or directly comparable experience working within a corporation or institution
Entrepreneurial, self-motivated mentality and ability to multi-task
Excellent project management, communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills
Clear, concise, and engaging business writing skills
Comfortable working collaboratively in a fast-paced, team-driven environment alongside colleagues with complementary skills and experience
Comfortable juggling multiple projects with competing deadlines and varying levels of complexity and project requirements
Comfortable with a high volume of agency team and client interaction, both in-person and through phone, email, and Zoom
Impeccable ethical standards and professionalism

Nice to have:

Experience working within the nonprofit, advocacy, or brand sectors, or as a vendor or service provider
Experience with Google Workspace, SalesForce, and other CRMs

What we offer:

Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)
$1,250 annually in professional development funds
Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
Flexible and health savings accounts
401K & employer match
Generous paid holiday schedule
12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Pre-tax commuter benefits
Remote work flexibility

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 06, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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