<h2><strong>What to know</strong></h2> <p><strong>Help us land our dream clients — and yours. </strong>We're hiring a Business Development Manager to join our Partnerships team. You'll support our new business engine: helping track and maintain the pipeline, project-managing proposals and pitches from RFP to signed contract, and getting the best thinking out of our strategists, creatives, and technologists on tight deadlines.</p> <p>You'll play a key role in helping organizations choose Blue State as their agency partner. When nonprofits, causes, and brands go looking for support with fundraising, marketing, and communications, they often send out RFPs. You'll support our response: figuring out what they need, bringing the right people together, and making sure every proposal shows we understand their world. The work is consultative and collaborative. It's about listening closely, connecting a prospect's goals to the right solutions, and keeping a talented team moving toward a strong, on-time pitch.</p> <p>The ideal candidate is an excellent project manager and writer who understands how nonprofits raise money, whether from the inside or as a partner. They're also curious about how marketing, communications, and digital strategy help organizations grow. You don't need to be a marketer yet. You do need to want to learn how we solve problems for clients and enjoy helping tell that story.</p> <h2><strong>The company</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>A day in the life</strong></h2> <p><strong>Support the new business process</strong></p> <ul> <li>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 across strategy, creative, technology, and leadership on schedule</li> <li>Review RFPs and help turn them into a plan: what the client is asking for, who needs to be involved, and what a winning response looks like</li> <li>Help draft and edit memos, proposals, pitch decks, and collateral for executive directors, chief development officers, CMOs, and other C-suite leaders</li> <li>Manage logistics and process throughout the sales lifecycle, from first conversation through contracting</li> <li>Join qualifying calls alongside VPs and SVPs, asking smart questions to understand a prospect's goals, constraints, and definition of success</li> </ul> <p><strong>Help partners find the right solution</strong></p> <ul> <li>Learn how Blue State's services in fundraising, advocacy, brand, and digital fit together, and contribute to consultative recommendations based on what a prospect actually needs</li> <li>Apply your familiarity with nonprofit fundraising (donor programs, membership, campaign moments, development team priorities) so we speak our clients' language</li> <li>Support agency thought leadership internally and externally</li> </ul> <p><strong>Grow our pipeline and our presence</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work with senior Partnerships leaders to help identify potential partners and support research across target verticals, including monitoring RFP opportunities</li> <li>Research prospects and clients and share clear, useful findings with senior leadership</li> <li>Support agency marketing that brings in new business, including case studies, newsletters, website updates, and social content that show off our work and expertise</li> <li>Help coordinate logistics for Blue State's presence at industry conferences and events, and support industry awards submissions</li> <li>Help turn our team's expertise into thought leadership, such as articles, webinars, and points of view that start conversations with prospects</li> </ul> <h2><strong>The team </strong></h2> <p>The Partnerships team drives Blue State’s growth and agency brand. We are the face of Blue State to prospective clients. We build new and deepen existing client relationships. We help prospects see opportunities more clearly, and we help Blue State understand the challenges our prospects face. We find solutions to complex business challenges. And we work with our colleagues to persuasively articulate creative, strategic, and technical solutions to executives and practitioners alike.</p> <h2><strong>What we offer</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Unlimited time-off (inclusive of sick, personal, and vacation days)</li> <li>$1,250 annually in professional development funds</li> <li>Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance</li> <li>Flexible and health savings accounts</li> <li>401K & employer match</li> <li>Generous paid holiday schedule</li> <li>12-week fully-paid parental leave for all parents-to-be</li> <li>Short-term and long-term disability insurance</li> <li>Pre-tax commuter benefits</li> <li>Remote work flexibility</li> </ul> <p>We approach in-office working with a hybrid model. On-site presence is welcome for US staff who are within commuting distance of the NY or DC office. Ma