Business Development Manager / Director

Position Overview

Sumerian Entertainment Group is a forward-thinking independent entertainment company with a record label, film studio, publishing division, and touring arm. We champion diverse creatives while producing impactful content across music, films, books, and live events. We are seeking a Business Development Manager/Director to drive strategic partnership and sales initiatives, cultivate new business opportunities, and unify our sales and growth strategy across all divisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a multi-division business development strategy for our record label, film projects, publishing titles, and touring products.
• Identify and pursue new revenue opportunities across brand partnerships, sponsorships, licensing, sync, distribution, and experiential activations.
• Build and maintain a robust prospecting pipeline with agencies, brands, media partners, streaming platforms, production companies, and distributors.
• Lead outreach, pitch meetings, and proposal deliveries to secure new partners and long-term relationships.
• Develop integrated partnership programs aligning brand objectives with our entertainment content and talent.
• Collaborate with marketing, creative, film, and artist-relations teams to customize partnership solutions for campaigns, releases, and events.
• Oversee execution of partnership deliverables ensuring mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Create polished pitch decks and sales materials tailored for brand sponsors, investors, distributors, and strategic collaborators.
• Maintain a library of updated templates, case studies, and company overview materials.
• Manage and optimize the company CRM to track leads, proposals, and closed deals through regular reporting.
• Leverage your industry relationships to drive new opportunities across music, film, publishing, and live entertainment.
• Represent the company at industry events, festivals, meetings, and conferences.
• Stay current on entertainment trends, brand marketing developments, and cultural insights to identify new partnership avenues.

Required Qualifications

• 4–10 years of experience in business development, partnerships, brand strategy, or sales within entertainment, media, music, film, or related industries.
• Strong knowledge of partnership marketing and how brands engage with entertainment content and IP.
• Proven track record of creating and pitching decks successfully to brands, agencies, sponsors, or distributors.
• Established entertainment industry relationships across music, film, media, or brand sectors.
• Proficiency in CRM systems such as HubSpot, Salesforce, or Airtable.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-paced, creative, and entrepreneurial environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at an indie label, production company, publisher, management company, or touring/promoter organization.
• Understanding of licensing, sync, brand integration, and entertainment marketing strategies.
• Existing brand and agency contacts across consumer verticals such as lifestyle, tech, beverage, fashion, gaming, and sports.

Benefits & Perks

• Growth opportunities within a multi-division entertainment company.
• Flexible/hybrid work options.
• Collaborative, creative company culture with access to innovative music, film, publishing, and touring projects.
• Ability to shape partnership strategy across multiple entertainment mediums.

Company Description

We are a multi-platform Entertainment Group spanning music, film, television, digital media, graphic novels, magazine publishing, concerts, festivals, tours, and events. We are also home to a legendary rock magazine, now reimagined for the digital age as a streaming platform, print publication, and live experience hub. With our disruptive creative spirit and bold visual identity, we create culture-shaping content and iconic IP across every format—forming an integrated creative ecosystem that champions visionary artists, creators, and storytellers across music, screen, stage, and page.