Business Development​/ Strategic Growth Associate, Intelligence

Job Description

Business Development/ Strategic Growth Associate
, Storyful Intelligence – A News Corp Company

Location: New York (Hybrid: In-office three days per week)

Salary: $75,000–$95,000 plus bonus

Storyful, a News Corp company, is a global leader in social media intelligence, insight, and news verification. We help brands, agencies, media organizations, and communications leaders understand and navigate an increasingly complex digital information environment.

Storyful Intelligence partners with global brands, agencies, and organizations to deliver strategic intelligence rooted in social and digital media analysis. Combining technology, social intelligence, and human expertise, we help clients understand the narratives, reputation risks, misinformation, stakeholder dynamics, and online conversations shaping public perception and influence. Our work sits at the intersection of communications, strategy, research, and digital intelligence.

We are seeking a commercially-driven and intellectually curious Business Development Associate to support the continued growth of Storyful Intelligence. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys connecting business development with strategic thinking and insight-led conversations. You will help identify growth opportunities, support outreach and prospect development, contribute to commercial storytelling and presentations, and work closely with strategists and analysts to bring Storyful’s capabilities to market.

• Support new business development efforts across brand, agency, and corporate communications sectors.
• Identify and research prospective client opportunities across key industries and emerging market areas.
• Develop strategic outreach approaches tailored to prospective client needs and market dynamics.
• Help manage and nurture lead pipelines using Salesforce, Hub Spot, or equivalent CRM platforms.
• Support prospect meetings, follow-ups, and next-step coordination across the sales process.
• Contribute to commercial reporting, pipeline tracking, and revenue updates.
• Collaborate with strategists and analysts to identify relevant insights, trends, and case studies for client outreach.
• Help develop capabilities presentations, prospect materials, and thought leadership content.
• Use AI-enabled research and intelligence tools to support prospecting, account research, and industry analysis.
• Stay informed on developments across communications, media, reputation, AI, and digital platforms.
• Support Storyful’s presence at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
• Build relationships with prospective clients and industry stakeholders.
• Contribute to a collaborative and growth-oriented commercial culture across the Intelligence business.

• 2–5 years of experience in business development, client strategy, insights, communications, media intelligence, SaaS, consulting, or related commercial environments.
• Experience supporting lead generation, outreach, account development, or consultative sales processes.
• Familiarity with CRM and sales enablement platforms such as Salesforce or Hub Spot.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation development.
• Intellectual curiosity and interest in communications, digital media, online narratives, reputation, and emerging technologies.
• Ability to synthesize information and think critically about client and market challenges.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, collaborative environment with evolving priorities.
• Experience working with communications, marketing, research, media, or insights-oriented clients is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI tools and digital research workflows is a plus.

• Work on high-impact challenges:
  Help global organizations understand and respond to emerging risks, narratives, and digital conversations shaping reputation and public trust.
• Growth & development:
  Gain exposure to commercial strategy, digital intelligence, client engagement, and emerging industry trends.
• Dynamic & mission-driven environment:
  Be part of a company operating at the forefront of media, intelligence, verification, and strategic…