Growth & New Business Lead

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$130K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and govern the new business engine, guiding opportunities from brief to pitch while coordinating cross-functional teams and shaping ArtBot's market narrative.

  • Manage end-to-end opportunities and craft compelling narratives
  • Build scalable frameworks to improve efficiency and consistency

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Winning New Business Opportunities
  • You'll own the operational and strategic engine behind our new business efforts, ensuring every opportunity is thoughtfully planned, expertly executed, and positioned for success.
  • Manage active opportunities from initial brief through to final submission and presentation
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams spanning strategy, creative, technology, and account management
  • Develop compelling RFP responses and pitch narratives that clearly articulate ArtBot's unique value proposition
  • Keep complex projects on track, proactively identifying risks and driving momentum
  • Partner closely with our UK-based design teams to deliver high-quality pitch materials seamlessly across time zones
  • Present and lead smaller opportunities independently, while supporting the MD on larger, high-profile pitches
  • Shape the ArtBot Story
  • You'll play a critical role in defining how ArtBot shows up in the market and communicates its capabilities.

Requirements

  • 5–8 years' experience in new business, pitch management, strategy, marketing, or a related discipline
  • Strong experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects and competing priorities
  • Excellent writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to turn complex information into compelling narratives
  • Experience developing proposals, RFP responses, presentations, and client-facing materials
  • An understanding of agency structures, procurement processes, and business development best practices
  • Confidence presenting and communicating with senior stakeholders and clients
  • The ability to create order from ambiguity and build processes where none currently exist

Preferred

  • You’re naturally curious, commercially minded, and excited by the fast-moving world of media, technology, and advertising.
  • You take pride in producing high-quality work, enjoy collaborating with others, and understand that attention to detail can be the difference between winning and losing.
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Critical Mass is a team of 1,900 inspired folks based in 13 offices around the world, providing full-service digital capabilities for the greatest brands on Earth. Our secret sauce is our uncompromising design standards, our relentless focus on customers, and an ability to put powerful new technologies to work for our clients. We work with the best—Apple, Nike, Mars Wrigley, Nissan, Diageo, Airbnb, BMW, BNY Mellon, Johnson & Johnson, and many more—brands who strive for connected digital ecosystems and unparalleled experiences. We help them get there by gaining deep insight into their consumers and orchestrating data, AI, design, media, and tech stacks around human stories.We’re a global agency founded in Canada, but digital is our home. If you know us, then you know we’re a special, quirky place that attracts big talent and tiny egos. (We actually give out a “so f-n nice” award—lots of them). But just because we’re friendly doesn’t mean we’re not a force to be reckoned with. We’re driven. Relentless. And we live our values. We’re Critical Mass, but our friends call us CM. Please call us CM!

Founded in 1996
Calgary, Alberta, CAN
1.8K employees (728 in marketing)
43% recommend to a friend
44% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
46.7%
Direct
41.5%
Referral
6.8%
Social
3.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.8K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
347 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
4.9 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
13

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