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Business Development Strategist

Exhibitus
  • Los Angeles, California
    2 days ago

    Job Description

    Job Title:
    Business Development Strategist
     
    Job Description:
    This is a Full Time Role with Base and Commission
     
    About EXstudios:
    EXstudios is an experiential studio backed by Exhibitus. We design and build immersive brand environments, touring activations, retail installations, and narrative-driven physical experiences for global brands. Our work integrates strategy, creative, spatial design, and full-scale fabrication under one structure. We operate at the intersection of story and scale.
    We have a strong and growing interest in the Bay Area market and are looking to deepen our presence with the tech and innovation brands that call it home.
     
    Role Overview:
    We are seeking a Business Development Strategist to drive new revenue opportunities with a focus on tech, innovation, and lifestyle brands in the San Francisco Bay Area and broader West Coast market.
    This is a contract role with a base retainer plus commission structure tied directly to closed revenue. Ideal for someone looking to supplement their income with a flexible, performance-driven position. This role is responsible for generating qualified opportunities, shaping early-stage strategy, and guiding prospects from first conversation through proposal.
     
    Key Responsibilities
    • Identify and develop new business opportunities with Bay Area and West Coast brands across tech, innovation, entertainment, and lifestyle
    • Build and maintain relationships with brand marketers, agency partners, and experiential leads
    • Lead early discovery conversations and uncover real business objectives
    • Collaborate with internal creative and production teams to shape pitch direction
    • Help define scopes, budgets, and strategic positioning before proposal stage
    • Track pipeline, forecast revenue, and drive deal momentum
    • Represent EXstudios confidently in rooms with senior stakeholders
    Qualifications
    • Based in or contacts in San Francisco Bay Area, Austin and Los Angeles markets. 
    • 3+ years in experiential, live events, brand marketing, or integrated agency environments
    • Established relationships with brand marketing, experiential, or event teams at Bay Area tech companies (ie, Salesforce, Google, Apple, Meta, Adobe, or similar)
    • Existing book of contacts in tech, SaaS, or consumer tech is a strong plus
    • Proven track record of closing mid-to-large scale experiential programs
    • Strategic thinker who understands both creative ambition and operational reality
    • Comfortable navigating complex budgets and multi-stakeholder decision trees
    • Self-directed and entrepreneurial
    • Open to existing reps with complementary client relationships
    Compensation
    • Monthly base 
    • Commission on closed business
    • Upside tied directly to revenue growth
    • Flexible, performance-driven structure
    What Success Looks Like
    • EXstudios established as a known creative and build partner in the Bay Area and West Coast tech, entertainment and brand ecosystem
    • Consistent pipeline of qualified experiential opportunities
    • Closed deals aligned with EXstudios' premium positioning
    • Long-term brand relationships, not one-off transactions
    • Revenue growth tied to strategic clients, not commodity RFP churn

       

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationLos Angeles, California
    IndustryManufacturing - Other
    Company Size100 to 499 employees
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttps://exhibitus.com/

    About Company

    We’re a passionate group. We’re interpreters, collaborators, creative builders and listeners who develop best-in-class solutions to enhance our client’s overall marketing programs. Our award-winning exhibits can only be chalked up to the chemistry we share with our clients and each other – because your end product is only as good as the process it takes to create it, and the people you trust to make it happen. Let’s get to know each other.

    Design, build, manage. Trade show, mobile, museum, corporate interiors, themed environments. Custom, rental. It’s a world that’s not on the printed page, it’s not on the big screen – it’s not on any screen. It’s 3-D, in your face, all around you, pick-you-up-and-sweep-you-away marketing that, if done right, has the power to link brands to audiences in ways no other media can. We’re show people. We’re interpreters, we’re builders, we’re movers (and shakers). Our award-winning partnerships can only be chalked up to the chemistry we share with our clients and each other – because your end product is only as good as the process it takes to create it, and the people you entrust to make it happen.

    Skills

    • Adobe Product Familyunmatched
    • Appleunmatched
    • Brand Marketing (Branding)unmatched
    • Budgetingunmatched
    • Business Developmentunmatched
    • Business Strategyunmatched
    • Customer Relationsunmatched
    • Ecosystemsunmatched
    • Entrepreneurshipunmatched
    • Event Marketingunmatched
    • Global Brandingunmatched
    • Relationship Marketingunmatched
    • Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
    • Retailunmatched
    • Revenue Forecastingunmatched
    • Revenue Growthunmatched
    • Sales Closing Skillsunmatched
    • Salesforce.comunmatched
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)unmatched

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