Director of Business Development at Surfline\Wavetrak, Inc.
United States
$130k - $170k
<div><body><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Surfline Coastal Intelligence turns decades of ocean and coastal data into insight that helps communities, engineers, and agencies make better decisions about the coast. As </span><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Director of Business Development</strong></b><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">, you will set the partnership strategy for SCI and develop the team that carries it out, deciding which markets, partner categories, and pilots earn our investment. You will own the SCI revenue plan, personally lead our most strategic relationships, and turn evidence from the field into clear direction for product, data science, and the executive team, shaping where SCI goes next.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Under Surfline’s “Work from Anywhere” policy, this position may be performed on a full-time remote basis, with California-based candidates strongly preferred.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What You'll Do:</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Own the SCI partnership strategy and revenue plan across municipalities, engineering firms, and agencies.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Hire, coach, and lead Business Development Managers who drive revenue from discrete categories.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Use your coastal science knowledge to connect scientific insights to commercial value for partners.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Set the discovery standard so every engagement uncovers partner problems before proposing solutions.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Define the pilot framework used across SCI, including hypotheses, success metrics, and decision points.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Turn field learnings into clear roadmap input for product, data science, and executive leadership.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Build a shared system for documenting engagements so patterns consistently refine SCI’s core strategy.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Help make the final call on which categories to pursue, pause, or exit based on field evidence.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Allocate team time and resources by strategic fit, scalability, and long term value, not deal size.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Lead market sizing and segmentation that guides where SCI invests along core market coastlines.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Negotiate SCI’s most complex agreements involving data rights, public procurement, and multiyear terms.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Align the dispersed SCI team around partner needs so technical capabilities reach the right markets.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Forecast pipeline and revenue for executive leadership with honest assessments of each stage.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Serve as SCI’s senior external voice with agency leaders and at conferences and industry events.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What We're Looking For:</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Deep professional and/or academic experience in the coastal sciences.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience closing complex agreements involving data rights, public procurement, and multiyear contracts.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong fluency with government budgets, grants, and municipal buying cycles across many jurisdictions.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proven success leading B2B/G revenue growth and building the teams that deliver it.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience hiring and developing business development talent across a geographically dispersed team.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The judgment to set strategy with incomplete data and adjust quickly as evidence arrives.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Patience and stamina to lead a team through long public sector cycles without losing momentum.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Intellectual honesty to declare a partnership category dead and redirect the team’s effort.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;text-align:start;'><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">You May Also Have:</strong></b></p><ul style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;'><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">An existing network of connections among coastal municipalities, engineering firms, or public agencies.</span></li><li style="margin:3px 0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;text-align:start;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Passion for surfing or other ocean activities.</span></li></ul><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><b><strong style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Compensation and Benefits:</strong></b><br><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">The base salary range for this position is $130,000 - $170,000. In accordance with applicable state laws, the range provided is Surfline’s reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. In addition, Surfline offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package including 100% company-paid healthcare (medical, dental, and vision), a 401(k) plan and match, ‘Use What You Need’ PTO, and more.</span></p><p style='font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;'><br></p></body></div>
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