Director of Business Development (Performance Marketing)

Location: Markham, Ontario, Canada; hybrid

Compensation: 100,000–150,000 plus uncapped commission

Company

hirify.global is an international performance marketing business active across more than 65 countries.

What you will do

• Identify, prospect, pitch, negotiate and close new advertiser partnerships.
• Develop commercial relationships across performance marketing, lead generation, digital acquisition and related verticals.
• Recruit, coach and lead an initial team of two to three Business Developers while remaining personally involved in significant opportunities.
• Build a predictable pipeline, repeatable sales processes and an effective go-to-market approach.
• Own commercial forecasting, CRM discipline and revenue targets, and identify new advertiser segments and partnership opportunities.
• Work directly with the CEO and collaborate with account management and operational teams on onboarding, campaign performance and advertiser growth.

Requirements

• Proven commercial track record in performance marketing, affiliate marketing, lead generation or performance-based digital advertising is required.
• Demonstrated success personally acquiring advertisers and closing B2B partnerships.
• Experience managing, mentoring or building a commercial sales team.
• Strong knowledge of performance-based advertising business models, commercial metrics and advertiser economics.
• Confidence managing complex sales cycles, senior stakeholders and negotiations.
• Proven ability to create pipeline rather than relying on inbound leads.
• Strong CRM, forecasting and commercial reporting discipline.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to combine strategy with hands-on selling.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct influence on North American commercial strategy through close work with the CEO.
• Opportunity to build the commercial team, processes and sales culture.
• Base compensation with an uncapped commission structure linked to results.
• International business scale across more than 65 countries.
• Hybrid working arrangement with the Markham team.