Business Development Associate (AI-Driven)
About the Role
We’re looking for someone who is sharp, social and AI-fluent to own the systematic management of our most important relationships: corporate customers, media contacts, thought leaders, and other VIPs. You’ll get to know our target audience deeply: who they are, what matters to them, and how to keep them warm through dinners, events, personal outreach, and social touchpoints.
This isn’t a traditional relationship-management role. You’ll be building the AI-driven systems that make this kind of high-touch relationship work scalable, consistent, and low-error, replacing what would otherwise be a heavy manual process. You’ll need to be as comfortable experimenting with AI tools as you are writing a warm, personal note to a CEO.
The ideal candidate has strong organizational, project management, and relationship management skills. They thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with lots of moving parts and stakeholders and are motivated by the mission to transform the way people lead, collaborate, and deliver results.
What You’ll Do
Relationship Management
- Maintain and grow a systematic view of our target relationship lists: corporate customers, media, thought leaders, VIPs, to show progress over time.
- Track relationship status, history, and next-best-action for each contact
- Identify and execute the right touchpoint for each relationship: dinner invites, event invitations (including flagship events like Davos), personal emails/texts, social media DMs and comments
Communications & Events
- Draft and send personalized communications that reflect each contact’s history and current situation
- Manage invitations and guest lists to fill dinner parties and special events
- Coordinate logistics and follow-up around events to keep relationships moving forward
Revenue Advancement
- Identify relationships ready to be advanced toward revenue-generating opportunities
- Convert into sales calls with the team (commission-eligible)
AI & Process Innovation
- Partner with company leadership to design, test, and refine AI-agent-driven workflows for relationship tracking and communication
- Bring a “test and learn” mindset — experiment with AI tools, iterate quickly, and help the team move away from manual, error-prone processes
- Continuously look for ways AI can make outreach more personal, timely, and effective at scale
What You’ll Bring
Required
- College graduate
- Based in or willing to work Pacific time zone hours
- Strong writing skills — able to adapt tone and content to different relationships and contexts
- Proven adaptability to comfortably work in a fast-paced, founder-led, or entrepreneurial environment with many moving parts and unknowns.
- Comfortable and curious using AI tools day-to-day (not necessarily an “AI expert,” but quick to learn, experiment, and apply)
- Excellent interpersonal and social skills — genuinely enjoys building relationships with a wide range of people
- Highly organized; able to track many relationships and priorities at once without things falling through the cracks
- Proficient in CRM, AI and productivity tools such as: HubSpot, Claude, Google Workspace, Otter, and iMessage (iPhone required).
Preferred
- Experience or coursework in communications, business, marketing, or hospitality/events
- Familiarity with CRM tools
- Some exposure to AI agent tools or workflow automation (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Zapier-style automation)
Success Looks Like
- A living, well-maintained system of record for all target relationships
- Dinners and events consistently filled with the right people
- Relationships that steadily warm and convert into revenue
- AI-driven workflows replacing manual tracking, with fewer misses and errors over time
Compensation & Growth
- Base salary: $65,000 USD
- Commission: Paid on relationships you help advance into revenue-generating sales
- Ad hoc bonus: Additional bonus opportunities based on performance and impact
This role offers a clear path toward business development and sales leadership for someone who proves they can build trust with VIPs and translate that trust into results.
Applying
- If you are truly interested and a fit please complete the following application questions, nobody will be considered who does’t complete this:
- https://forms.gle/ErC8vWvxGdiWvY9R9