Business Development Director

Base salary $135,000–$185,000 depending on experience, plus a performance-related bonus, on a full-time basis
Los Angeles-based (or within easy reach), with remote-first working and regular in-person client relationship building
33 days paid time off and benefits
A senior commercial role working with globally recognisable brands across US entertainment, media, streaming, fandom, social and content
A rare opportunity to shape the next stage of Storm Ideas as an AI-native entertainment agency
High-end, fast computer and all the latest software, AI tools and productivity tools you will need

At Storm Ideas, we work with some of the biggest names in US entertainment. Since 2008, our international team has helped major entertainment, media and content-led businesses build stronger relationships with audiences through strategy, social, creative production, community, operations, products and technology.

Our work sits at the intersection of entertainment, fandom, content, technology and operations. Storm is an entertainment agency for the AI era: combining deep social, content and audience expertise with practical AI capability. We help clients make excellent work today, while redesigning the teams, workflows and operations they need as AI reshapes the industry.

We practise what we sell: we have transformed how Storm itself operates for the AI era, with agentic tools, shared context and AI-native workflows woven into everyday work. You will be stepping into an environment most agencies are still only talking about — and we want someone who finds that thrilling, and who can't wait to turn it into a business development advantage.

Storm is headquartered in the UK, with an international, remote-first team and a client base centred on US entertainment. Our growth to date has been relationship-led by our founders and senior team — we have never had dedicated sales staff. This role is our first: a senior commercial lead who will turn everything above into a clear, disciplined and repeatable growth system in the US market.

About the Role

This is a senior business development and commercial leadership role, based in or within easy reach of Los Angeles.

The role is not a generic sales-rep role. We are not looking for someone to run a high-volume SaaS playbook or sell from a fixed menu of services. Storm sells trust, judgement, creativity, operational capability and transformation expertise. Our best opportunities are not one-off projects, but agency-of-record and always-on partnerships for organic social. That kind of work is won on strategy, trust and proof built over time.

You will own the commercial system that helps Storm create, capture and convert opportunities: opening new relationships, accessing new rooms inside large entertainment clients, activating our existing network, qualifying carefully, coordinating senior Storm leaders into the right conversations, shaping pitches and proposals, and keeping the whole pipeline visible, disciplined and moving. A small AI-first marketing team will report to you, producing the research, content, proof and materials the commercial system needs — they exist to keep you selling.

If you are looking for a role where the brief is already neat, the proposition is static and the sales process is already mature, this is not it. This role is for someone who can help build the commercial operating system while also doing the senior relationship work.

• Build and lead Storm's commercial growth system for the US entertainment market, with a strong focus on Los Angeles-based studios, streamers, networks, platforms, franchises and entertainment brands
• Create a clear named-account strategy across priority client ecosystems, prospects, former…