VP, New Business Development (Influencer Marketing)

Location: New York, New York; hybrid work

Salary: $190,000–$240,000 annually, plus discretionary bonus and benefits.

Company

Blue Hour Studios is a social-first content agency affiliated with hirify.global, focused on creators, culture, content, and commerce.

What you will do

• Prospect for new clients aligned with social-first, influencer, and creator-driven strategies.
• Build relationships with prospective clients, decision-makers, holding company leadership, platforms, creators, and industry partners.
• Manage the new business pipeline, qualify opportunities, assess account viability, and drive revenue growth.
• Own RFPs, proposal development, pitch strategy, and presentations for major opportunities.
• Develop the agency’s market positioning, website, case studies, thought leadership, PR, and brand-building initiatives.
• Collaborate with creative, strategy, and production teams to create persuasive business materials and pitch decks.

Requirements

• 15+ years of agency experience, including 8+ years in new business development, business growth, or revenue-focused roles.
• Demonstrated success building pipelines, closing major client accounts, and scaling agency revenue.
• Deep knowledge of the creator economy, influencer marketing, content creation, social-first strategies, and creator platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, negotiation, organizational, and project management skills.
• Strategic, entrepreneurial, self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to influence and collaborate across creative, strategy, production, and other cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience at a social-first, creator-focused, or influencer marketing agency.
• Leadership experience in a high-growth agency or scaled creator economy platform.
• Experience positioning or rebranding agencies to win new business.
• Client-side or brand marketing experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment in New York.
• Health, life, disability, retirement, and pet insurance benefits.
• Company-paid holidays and unlimited paid time off.
• Mental health and wellness resources, fitness reimbursement, childcare resources, identity theft insurance, and fertility assistance.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to an inclusive and empowering culture.