Business Development Manager

Build the pipeline, run the deal, and grow the roster of premium brands we serve.

Surroundings Group is the creative partner behind the world's premium brands: marine, real estate, private aviation, hospitality, and the categories around them. We're also the team behind Nautical Network, the largest multi-platform editorial ecosystem in premium marine, reaching 180M+ viewers a year. Together they form a vertically fluent ecosystem built to scale brands in high-trust categories.

The Business Development Manager builds pipeline, reaches prospective clients, works the deal, and closes it. You own the full arc from first touch to signed engagement, across the premium categories we serve.

• Generating new sales opportunities through CRM, calls, email, and social outreach
• Identifying what a prospect actually needs and matching the right services to it
• Proactively sourcing new business opportunities in our markets
• Working clients through the decision process, handling objections, and finalizing agreements
• A quarterly and annual quota you’re accountable to
• Weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting on results
• 2+ years of business development experience with a track record of exceeding targets
• Strong communication over phone and email
• A creative problem‑solving approach backed by real analytical skills
• The drive to move up within a sales organization
• Impeccable timeline management and follow-through
• A personality that meshes with the Surroundings Group team

Full‑time, minimum 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday during 9:30am–5pm ET business hours, based at our Tampa, FL studio. Open to occasional weekends and travel.

Surroundings Group LLC and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants without regard to gender, pregnancy, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, part‑time or fixed‑term employment, age, or any other legally protected class.