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About the Role
We are hiring a Business Development Manager to join our Partnerships team. You will support our new business engine by tracking and maintaining the pipeline, project-managing proposals and pitches from RFP to signed contract, and extracting the best thinking from our strategists, creatives, and technologists under tight deadlines. You will play a key role in helping organizations choose Blue State as their agency partner.
Responsibilities
- Support the new business process.
- Coordinate RFP responses, proposals, pitches, and scopes of work from start to finish.
- Build timelines, track owners and deliverables, run kickoffs and check-ins, and keep contributors on schedule.
- Review RFPs and help turn them into a plan.
- Help draft and edit memos, proposals, pitch decks, and collateral for C-suite leaders.
- Manage logistics and process throughout the sales lifecycle, from first conversation through contracting.
- Join qualifying calls alongside VPs and SVPs, asking smart questions to understand a prospect's goals, constraints, and definition of success.
- Learn how Blue State's services fit together and contribute to consultative recommendations.
- Apply familiarity with nonprofit fundraising so we speak our clients' language.
- Support agency thought leadership internally and externally.
- Work with senior Partnerships leaders to help identify potential partners and support research across target verticals.
- Research prospects and clients and share clear, useful findings with senior leadership.
- Support agency marketing that brings in new business.
- Help coordinate logistics for Blue State's presence at industry conferences and events.
- Support industry awards submissions.
- Help turn our team's expertise into thought leadership.
Requirements
- 3–5 years managing complex, deadline-driven projects with many contributors.
- Familiarity with nonprofit fundraising.
- A real interest in marketing, communications, and digital strategy, and in how they help organizations grow.
- A track record of getting great work out of busy people you don't manage.
- Clear, concise, persuasive business writing and strong editing instincts.
- Comfort with a high volume of internal and client interaction, in person and over phone, email, and Zoom.
- Impeccable ethical standards and professionalism.
Skills
- Project management
- Writing
- Nonprofit fundraising
- Marketing
- Communications
- Digital strategy
- Business writing
- Editing
- Google Workspace
- CRMs
Location
- NY
- DC
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $74,750 - $80,000
Benefits
- Unlimited time-off
- 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
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
About the Company
- Blue State is a purpose-driven agency.
- We partner with leading causes, brands, and campaigns and create real change.
- From AARP and Doctors Without Borders to Amnesty International and Oxfam, we transform how brands and causes raise money, influence policy, build platforms, and grow communities of supporters.
- Led by the most creative and analytical minds from the political, nonprofit, and brand worlds, Blue State is an independent agency in the US and London.
Equal Opportunity
- At Blue State, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We encourage those from underrepresented communities — women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between — to apply.
- Even if you don’t think your current skill set checks every box, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.
- Blue State is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible application and interview process.
- If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, including the use of AI tools throughout the hiring process, please contact us at recruiting@bluestate.co with the subject line: Accommodation Request to get started.