Business Development Manager

Studio Pod is a Houston based start up that is disrupting the traditional studio photography market with its automated, mobile professional photography studios that currently specialize in capturing headshots for teams and individuals. Studio Pod is expanding into multiple cities this year, and also launching its enterprise solution for large institutions.

As Studio Pod enters an exciting growth phase, and expands from a single-city to multi-city business, we are looking for a highly motivated individual who is a strong communicator, networker, negotiator and problem solver to fill the role of Business Development Manager.


This individual will be expected to:

  • Drive customer and revenue growth by:

    • Expand awareness of Studio Pod as a new and better way to take headshots

    • Developing corporate and institutional connections and leads

    • Generating proposals and educating potential and new customers about Studio Pod’s product and benefits

    • Securing and maintaining annual contracts

    • Developing and executing existing and new sales and growth strategies

    • Helping to build proper sales channels

    • Assisting in scaling Studio Pod into a nationally recognized brand

  • Help build, maintain and provide leadership to a sales team

    • Assist in hiring

    • Develop new sales strategies

    • Setting and maintaining sales goals that ensure revenue growth

    • Provide leadership to our sales team

    • Communicate across marketing and sales teams to ensure a unified and supportive brand message

    • Regular reporting to executive team about goals and milestones

  • Maintain and grow corporate and institutional relationships

    • Ensure a quality experience for corporate and institutional customers

    • Grow corporate and institutional connections across city and state lines

    • Understand and communicate customer needs to assist executive and development teams in better software feature development

Required skills:

  • Get-it-done attitude and extremely self-driven and motivated

  • Strong communication and team building skills

  • Strong analytical skills

  • Ability to manage and lead a team and work across multiple departments/teams

  • Sales experience

  • Willingness to travel when needed

    Education/Experience:

  • Minimum: High School diploma or GED, and 3+ years' relevant sales experience in a business-to-business professional sales environment, and 2 or more years' with a proven track record of new business development.

  • Preferred: Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent educational level.