Business Development Executive

Creative Jolt, LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Jolt, LLC is seeking a Business Development Executive to introduce our performance marketing services to potential client businesses. You will identify qualified opportunities, understand client goals, and move conversations toward a good-fit engagement.

This is a commission-based role where earnings are tied to new business you generate for Creative Jolt. You will prospect, build relationships, and help ensure we deliver measurable marketing results.

Qualifications

• Experience in sales, business development, account growth, or related client-facing role.
• Confidence communicating with business owners and senior decision-makers.
• Strong listening skills to uncover underlying business problems.
• Ability to explain complex marketing services in simple terms.
• Comfortable prospecting and developing relationships over time.
• Strong organization and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business opportunities through prospecting, referrals, networking, partnerships, and relationship building.
• Identify businesses that align with Creative Jolt’s capabilities and performance standards.
• Lead early conversations to understand goals and challenges.
• Move opportunities through the sales process with clear expectations.
• Coordinate with leadership when deeper expertise is needed.
• Present capabilities clearly without overpromising.

Skills

Sales experience

Executive communication

Relationship building

Prospecting

Negotiation

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

The Role

Sell the right work to the right business.

The Business Development Executive introduces Creative Jolt to businesses that could genuinely benefit from our performance marketing approach.

This is not a high-volume sales role built around pushing packages or closing anyone willing to sign. You will identify qualified opportunities, understand what a business is trying to accomplish, uncover the problems standing in the way, and determine whether Creative Jolt is actually a good fit.

When the fit is there, your job is to move the relationship forward with clarity and confidence.

This is a commission-based position, so compensation is directly connected to the business you successfully bring to Creative Jolt.

What You’ll Own

A disciplined path from first conversation to new client.

• Develop new business opportunities through prospecting, referrals, networking, partnerships, and relationship building.
• Identify businesses that align with Creative Jolt’s capabilities and performance standards.
• Lead early conversations to understand business goals, current marketing conditions, growth challenges, and decision-making needs.
• Introduce qualified prospects to Creative Jolt’s Market Analysis and evaluation process.
• Maintain consistent follow-up without turning the relationship into pressure.
• Move qualified opportunities through the sales process while keeping expectations clear.
• Help ensure the work being sold matches what Creative Jolt can responsibly deliver.

What Success Looks Like

Growth without lowering the standard.

1. 01 New opportunities are qualified before significant time is invested.
2. 02 Prospective clients understand how Creative Jolt works, what makes the approach different, and what will be expected from both sides.
3. 03 New business strengthens Creative Jolt because the relationship, economics, expectations, and opportunity make sense.

Responsibilities

Build relationships that can become good business.

• Prospect for businesses that match Creative Jolt’s target markets and service capabilities.
• Develop referral relationships and strategic partnerships.
• Conduct introductory conversations with owners, executives, and decision-makers.
• Understand a prospect’s current marketing, lead-generation challenges, growth goals, and competitive environment.
• Maintain accurate opportunity notes, follow-up activity, and pipeline information.
• Coordinate with Creative Jolt leadership when deeper market, strategy, technical, or performance expertise is needed.
• Present Creative Jolt’s capabilities clearly without overstating results or making promises the company cannot support.
• Follow opportunities through proposal, decision, and onboarding when appropriate.
• Stay connected to the quality of the clients being brought into the company, not simply the quantity.

Qualifications

Strong communication. Good instincts. Credibility.

• Experience in sales, business development, account growth, partnerships, or a related client-facing role.
• Confidence communicating with business owners and senior decision-makers.
• Strong listening skills and the ability to uncover the actual business problem behind an initial request.
• Ability to explain complex marketing services in clear business language.
• Comfortable prospecting, following up, and developing relationships over time.
• Strong personal organization and follow-through.
• Ability to work independently and remain accountable for pipeline activity and results.
• Comfortable in a compensation structure where earnings are primarily driven by successful sales.

Preferred Qualifications

Helpful depth.

• Experience selling marketing, advertising, digital services, professional services, technology, or other consultative solutions.
• Existing relationships with service businesses, contractors, professional firms, or growth-oriented small and midsize businesses.
• Familiarity with paid advertising, websites, lead generation, analytics, CRM systems, or marketing performance measurement.
• Experience with consultative or solution-based selling rather than transactional sales.
• A professional network capable of generating introductions and referrals.
• Experience developing business through chambers, associations, industry groups, networking organizations, or strategic partnerships.

How We Work

Performance. Judgment. Accountability.

Creative Jolt does not believe every prospect should become a client.

We evaluate markets, business conditions, opportunity, and fit before asking a company to invest heavily in growth. The same standard applies to sales.

You should be willing to pursue good opportunities aggressively while also recognizing when the economics, expectations, or circumstances do not support moving forward.

The goal is not simply to close business.

The goal is to create good business.

Compensation

Your results should matter.

This is a commission-based sales position.

Compensation is tied to new business successfully generated for Creative Jolt. Specific commission structure, eligibility, payment timing, recurring commission opportunities, and other terms will be provided as part of the formal compensation agreement.

There is meaningful earning potential for someone who can consistently develop qualified relationships and convert them into successful Creative Jolt clients.