[Hiring] Business Development Manager @Somewhere

Role Description

We are hiring a highly organized, relationship-driven Business Development Manager to manage and grow a large portfolio of professional entertainment industry contacts.

• This is a high-volume, writing-intensive outreach role focused on building new partnerships, reactivating dormant relationships, and maintaining consistent engagement across hundreds of accounts.
• While leads are provided, this role requires proactive outreach, follow-up discipline, and strong written communication.
• This is not a traditional hard sales role. Success is driven by thoughtful outreach, relationship warming, and consistent execution against clear activity and engagement targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a large portfolio of 700+ professional contacts across music, sports, film and TV, and digital media.
• Execute daily outbound outreach primarily via email, with some social follow-up, using provided leads.
• Send a minimum of 50 emails per day, with a target range of 60 to 80 well-crafted messages.
• Build new partnerships while re-engaging previously active or dormant accounts.
• Maintain accurate records, follow-ups, and engagement tracking within HubSpot.
• Achieve weekly engagement and activation targets, including closing 70+ accounts per week.
• Ensure at least 40 weekly activations are new or previously non-engaged accounts.
• Collaborate on improving CRM workflows, sequences, and messaging templates.
• Think creatively about ways to keep relationships warm, responsive, and productive over time.

Required Hard Skills

• Excellent written English with the ability to write clear, natural, professional outreach emails.
• Proven experience in outbound outreach, business development, sales, or partnership roles.
• Strong CRM experience, ideally HubSpot or a similar system.
• Ability to manage high outreach volume without sacrificing message quality.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail across large account lists.

Required Soft Skills

• Self-motivated and disciplined with the ability to work independently.
• Relationship-focused mindset with patience and consistency.
• Comfortable working toward daily and weekly performance targets.
• Adaptable and open to feedback on messaging and workflows.
• Genuine interest in the business side of the entertainment industry.

About the Candidate

• Mid-level candidates with prior success in outreach, sales, or relationship management can succeed in this role.
• Entertainment industry experience is a plus but not required. Strong relationship management skills are transferable.
• Candidates with prior sales or partnership experience often perform well due to the new-account focus.
• Spanish fluency is a plus but not required.
• Must be a fluent English writer. Candidates will be tested to ensure strong writing skills without reliance on AI tools.

What Success Looks Like (First 60 to 90 Days)

• Consistently hitting daily outreach targets.
• Maintaining response rates in the 30 to 50 percent range depending on contact type.
• Closing 70+ accounts weekly, with a strong mix of new and reactivated relationships.
• Keeping CRM data clean, current, and actionable.
• Demonstrating ownership of accounts and outreach quality.

Compensation & Bonus Structure

• Base salary range: USD $1,400 to $2,000 per month.
• Performance bonuses tied to outreach and engagement quotas.
• High performers typically earn an additional USD $800 to $1,000 per month.