US New Business Development

Likewize; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Likewize is seeking a driven business development leader to accelerate enterprise growth across markets. This hunter role focuses on creating new opportunities, building executive relationships, and closing multi-year partnerships with top brands.

You will lead opportunities from initial engagement through solution design, negotiation, and contract execution, shaping offerings across device protection, repair, trade-in, and lifecycle services. Frequent travel across the US is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of enterprise growth and strategic business development.
• Proven ability to win and grow enterprise partnerships.
• Experience selling complex solutions, including technology and managed services.
• Strong hunter mindset with record of multi-year deals.
• Executive presence and ability to engage senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Create new revenue and expand market presence.
• Develop and close strategic partnerships with ecosystem players.
• Lead multi-year pipeline from executive engagement to contract.
• Shape strategic solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Navigate complex organizations with stakeholder mapping.
• Build credibility with C-suite and senior leaders.

Skills

Strategic sales

Partnership development

Executive engagement

Pipeline management

Negotiation

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Market expansion

Job description

What This Role Is All About

Job Description: What This Role Is All About Likewize is searching for a driven, strategic business development leader to accelerate growth across a variety of markets. This is a true hunter role focused on creating new opportunities, building executive relationships, and closing transformational enterprise partnerships. You'll help expand Likewize's market presence by connecting customers with innovative solutions across device protection, repair, trade-in, upgrade, and lifecycle services. If you're energized by opening doors, winning new business, and building lasting partnerships with industry-leading brands, this is your opportunity to make a significant impact.

Your Key Areas of Focus

• Create New Revenue
• Develop and close strategic partnerships with key ecosystem players.
• Build and manage a high-value, multi-year pipeline that drives sustainable revenue growth and market expansion.
• Lead opportunities from initial executive engagement through solution design, negotiation, and contract execution.
• Build Executive Relationships, Cultivate C-suite and senior leadership relationships through targeted outreach, industry networks, referrals, and strategic account planning.
• Position Likewize as a growth partner by delivering compelling insights that enhance customer loyalty, operational performance, and revenue.
• Navigate complex organizations through stakeholder mapping and engagement strategies that maintain momentum throughout the sales cycle.
• Shape Strategic Solutions, Partner cross-functionally with Product, Operations, Marketing, Finance, Legal, Technology, and Executive Leadership to design tailored customer solutions.
• Transform customer challenges into innovative offerings across device protection, insurance, repair, trade-in, lifecycle services, and digital care.
• Leverage market trends and competitive insights to identify new growth opportunities and influence strategic business priorities.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of success driving enterprise growth through strategic business development, consultative sales, and market expansion initiatives.
• A demonstrated ability to win and grow partnerships across Retail, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, Technology, and adjacent industries.
• Deep experience selling complex solutions, including technology, SaaS, managed services, device lifecycle management, warranty, insurance, logistics, and mobility offerings.
• A proven hunter with a track record of identifying, cultivating, and converting new business opportunities from the ground up.
• A consistent history of surpassing revenue and pipeline targets while securing large-scale, multi-year commercial agreements.
• An executive presence and strong influence skills that enable effective engagement with senior stakeholders across complex, matrixed organizations.
• An entrepreneurial, resilient, and results-driven mindset paired with a passion for creating opportunities, overcoming challenges, and delivering wins.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, negotiation, and strategic thinking abilities that foster long-term customer and partner success.

Extra Skills We’d Love to See

• Established network of senior leaders across Retail, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Connectivity, and Technology organizations to enable meaningful partnership opportunities.
• Proven success leading competitive displacement strategies and converting high-value opportunities into transformational, long-term partnerships.
• Strong understanding of the connected-device ecosystem, emerging technologies, and the trends shaping the future of consumer experiences.

On the Road to Success

Growth doesn't happen from behind a desk. Expect frequent travel, including overnight stays, between the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and locations for prospects, customers, and partners across the country. You'll be out in the market building relationships, uncovering opportunities, and helping bring the next generation of strategic partnerships to Likewize.

Get To Know Us

The world runs on connected devices. At Likewize, we make the experience around them work better. We partner with many of the world’s biggest brands to design and deliver seamless device journeys across protection, repair, upgrade, and renewal. We help our partners unlock growth by putting customer experience at the center of the entire device lifecycle. When tech goes wrong, we make it right. When customers are ready for something new, we make the transition simple. We operate on a global scale but never lose sight of the individual customer. Innovation is part of our DNA. We move fast, challenge the obvious, and look for better answers. We are driven by Success, Passion, Professionalism, Accountability and Teamwork – and we look for people who share the same values. At Likewize, we Go for Growth. To us, that means passion over complacency, accountability over excuses, teamwork over silos, and professionalism as the standard. This is how we create success. If that fires you up, you're going to love it here. To learn more about who we are, visit our website at www.likewize.com.

When your tech goes wrong, Likewize makes it right. Likewize offers the most comprehensive protection against any technology disruption. Whether a device is lost, stolen, damaged, malfunctioning, in need of an upgrade or the user does not know how to do something, Likewize provides the solution. Trusted by the world’s largest brands, telcos, and banks, looking after approximately a billion of our customers’ customers. We operate in over 30 countries, resolving 250 million problems each year across insurance, warranty, repairs, trade-ins, recycling and premium tech support.