Business Development Manager - Corporate

A&O Shearman is a new global industry-leading law firm, with nearly 50 offices in 29 countries worldwide.

Our fluency in English law, US law, and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets, enables us to provide unmatched insight and seamless delivery to clients. We work on challenging and important deals and disputes that have the potential to shape the future.

We offer exceptional opportunities for our people; opportunities to work for the world’s leading businesses; to transform the status quo, and to deliver your best work, helping you and your career to thrive, while delivering unparalleled outcomes for our clients.

Whether you're helping clients solve complex challenges, transforming the ways we manage our business, or ensuring the smooth-running of our operations, this is an environment where you can belong and excel. We provide first-rate training and development, we are committed to an inclusive environment, and we provide support and ways of working that help you optimise your wellbeing.

What truly defines a career with us? We recruit the best and ask for the best of you. And together, we will redefine success.

The U.S. Marketing & Business Development team (U.S. MKT Team) is a sophisticated group of experienced professionals charged with guiding the Firm’s fee earners to grow U.S. and global revenues, expand existing client relationships and strategically tackle new client pursuits.

This is a team that is all-in. As business professionals at one of the largest law firms in the world, the U.S. MKT Team thrives on market challenges and outside-the-box thinking. It is a team where fresh ideas are not only entertained, they’re encouraged.

The Business Development Manager role is a fantastic opportunity to gain global experience working for one of the largest law firms in the world and to learn the unique approach that a truly global firm utilizes towards business development and marketing. Our U.S. team works cooperatively with our colleagues located in close to 50 offices throughout the world as one integrated team.

The Business Development Manager – Corporate & California Region will support and work closely with partners to develop and implement business development and marketing strategies for the firm’s California offices. This role will require frequent collaboration with partners in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, including our Technology sector heads, as well as practice groups across the U.S. The Business Development Manager will work with business development teams across the firm to help support these groups.

This includes, but is not limited to, responding to client requests for proposals, coordination of involvement in firmwide initiatives, sponsorship and event management, collateral creation and management, client targeting exercises, coordinating of media opportunities with the communications team, thought leadership, and legal directory submissions.

• Associate Director – Business Development (based in Austin, Texas)
• BD Manager – Corporate (based in Silicon Valley)
• Chief Marketing Officer – Americas (based in New York)
• California Co-Managing Partners, practice heads, and partners in California
• U.S. business development team
• Peers across the wider business development, marketing and communications teams

The Business Development Manager is crucial to the execution of our regional strategy and its success. The role will involve strategy, lead generation, management of business development partnerships, pitches, market research, events and PR. There is also involvement in the day-to-day marketing processes management, planning, and execution.

• Understand the vision and…