Job Description
Business Development Lead
Job description
Location: Bristol (Office-based role), hybrid considered
Reports to: Founder
Type: Full-time
Salary: £50-60K DOE, plus performance-based incentives
About us
We are Luna 9 – a strategy-led product marketing agency, partnering with ambitious tech businesses to help them nail their pitch and conquer the market. As demand for our work grows, we’re looking for a commercially-driven, hands-on Head of Growth to help us bring in more of the right opportunities — and increase the consistency, quality, and value of our pipeline.
The role
This is a senior, strategic role focused on driving new business through the top and middle of the funnel. You’ll work closely with the founder to identify and engage the right prospects, convert early interest into qualified leads, and relieve pressure on the leadership team by building a stronger, more self-sustaining growth engine.
You’ll bring a sharp commercial mindset, a strong grasp of agency sales cycles, and the ability to craft clear, persuasive proposals that turn conversations into clients. This is a role for someone who enjoys being proactive — researching targets, tailoring outreach, developing relationships, and guiding opportunities through to pitch stage.
Experience in account management or direction is welcome — you understand how clients think, what great service looks like, and how to identify the right-fit opportunities from the start.
You’ll also be a confident representative of the agency, attending client meetings and sector events as needed, with occasional travel required.
Key responsibilities
- Plan, lead and execute new business activity across the top and middle of the funnel
- Identify, research, and prioritise high-value targets across key verticals
- Develop and run tailored outreach campaigns to start and sustain meaningful conversations
- Build and nurture relationships with cold, warm, and lapsed prospects
- Qualify inbound and referral opportunities, ensuring strong commercial fit
Lead the creation of compelling, well-structured proposals and pitch responses - Work collaboratively with the founder to align growth activity with agency strategy
- Track, analyse, and report on pipeline health and conversion using our CRM
- Represent the agency at prospect meetings and proactively attend industry events
- Build connections with potential industry partners and investors
Required skills
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience in a new business or growth role within a creative, brand, or product marketing agency
- Strong commercial instincts and a strategic, sales-focused mindset
- A consultative selling mindset – we’re a B2B service-based business, not selling off-the-shelf products
- Skilled in crafting clear, persuasive proposals that win work
- Confident communicator with strong relationship-building abilities
- Experience in account management or direction is a strong plus
- Familiar with agency sales cycles and what drives long-term client value
- Hands-on with outbound and CRM tools, and comfortable owning reporting and performance tracking
- Proactive, structured, and able to work independently
- Willing to travel for meetings and events when needed
What we want to see from you:
- Not just a proven track record, but an insight into your process and how you think
- A cover letter telling us why you think you’d be a good fit
Benefits
Why join us?
- Shape and lead the growth strategy of a highly regarded, positioning-led agency
- Work closely with two collaborative, entrepreneurial founders
- Join a growing business where your impact will be visible and valued
- Clear scope for progression as we scale
- 25 days holiday per year (excluding Bank Holidays and our Christmas to New Year shutdown) and an extra day off of your choice in the week of your birthday
- Training and development opportunities to expand your skillset
- A bright, airy office in central Bristol
- Monthly team lunches
- Work/life balance is very important to us – we’ve got several young families at Luna 9 and work is never more important than what’s going on outside
A flavour of what we’ve done recently
- Product marketing and brand design for innovative battery technology scaleup
- Created an interactive guide to explain AI-driven drug therapies in the fight against cancer
- Rebranded a waste-to-energy startup on a mission to protect our water resources
- Messaging and positioning strategy for an eco-concrete engineering startup creating undersea marine habitats
- Crafted pitch deck strategies and designs that have led to £150m+ in raised investment for our clients
Interested? Please send your CV, cover letter, and portfolio to [email protected].
To learn more about Luna 9, visit www.luna9design.com
Equal opportunities
Luna 9 is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.