Hybrid Director of Business Development

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About the role

  • Director of Business Development leading new business efforts for PRPL in Orlando. Responsible for building and managing pipelines, leading pursuits, and closing opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Generation and First Response
  • • Respond quickly and professionally to inbound leads (web, referrals, partners, outbound)
  • • Run initial outreach and first touch calls with confidence and structure
  • • Represent PRPL as a trusted partner with a high bar for communication and follow-up
  • Qualification and Discovery
  • • Qualify opportunities with clear rigor, including fit, urgency, budget, decision process, and timeline
  • • Lead discovery calls that uncover business goals, constraints, risks, and success criteria
  • • Identify what PRPL needs to win, and what we should decline
  • Pursuit Strategy and Closing
  • • Own the pursuit plan, including stakeholders, meeting path, messaging, differentiators, and momentum
  • • Craft the “why PRPL” story using relevant case studies and proof
  • • Drive opportunities to close with consistent cadence, clear next steps, and confident asks
  • • Build strong relationships and maintain executive-level presence with prospects
  • Proposal and SOW Development
  • • Coordinate and drive proposal development with PRPL leadership and discipline leads
  • • Help shape scope, phasing, assumptions, and investment in a way that protects delivery success
  • • Produce proposal-ready content with high quality and minimal friction on the internal team
  • • Package deals using PRPL tools and workflows
  • Pipeline Ownership and Forecasting
  • • Own CRM hygiene and accountability in Pipedrive
  • • Maintain accurate pipeline stages, next steps, and close probabilities
  • • Provide weekly visibility to PRPL leadership, including top deals, risks, help needed, and next actions
  • Relationship Building and Long-Term Growth
  • • Build and nurture a network of partners and referral sources
  • • Re-engage past leads and warm connections with professionalism and purpose
  • • Help PRPL grow into the right verticals and opportunity types over time

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in business development or new business at a creative or digital agency (required)
  • Proven ability to lead pursuits and close services-based work, not just set meetings
  • Strong client-facing communication, confident, concise, professional
  • Proven experience selling strategic digital solutions, including one or more of the following:
  • Foundational brand identity and design systems that extend across platforms
  • Website strategy, design, and development for enterprise or high-growth organizations
  • Custom apps, software platforms, and interactive digital products
  • Scalable CMS platforms, digital ecosystems, and technical infrastructure
  • UX and UI design for web, mobile, and product interfaces
  • Technical builds, API integrations, and cross-platform engineering
  • Ongoing optimization, performance tuning, and support retainers
  • High attention to detail and follow-through
  • Comfortable working across leadership, delivery, design, and engineering
  • Local to Orlando (required)

Benefits

  • Base salary, plus commission
  • Additional performance upside based on outcomes and growth

Job title

Director of Business Development

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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