
Director of Business Development – Campuses
Robot.com
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Create and execute a strategy required to reach campus deployment and revenue targets.
- Maintain relationships with senior leadership at partner organizations while closely supporting campus-level contacts to drive approvals and successful launches.
- Collaborate with Operations to secure deployments, optimize performance, and address barriers quickly.
- Analyze campus performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Create updated economic models, marketing plans, and operational improvements that stabilize existing deployments and accelerate our penetration of new campuses.
- Ensure continuous improvement across the deployment and activation funnel.
- Build and maintain a comprehensive campus deployment plan including prioritization, sequencing, and resource allocation.
- Work directly with individual campus leaders to move locations from interest to approval to deployment.
- Track progress and ensure pipeline health against growth targets.
- Expand campus access and deployment opportunities within multiple food-service providers.
- Build account plans that identify decision-makers, influencers, processes, and market opportunities across these organizations.
- Develop repeatable approaches for scaling campus deployments across regions and providers.
- Operationalize campus-level advertising opportunities enabled through new agreements, ensuring compliance with approval processes and local campus policies.
- Obtain advertising approvals at various colleges in advance and provide the Robot.com Sales team with current contact lists, requirements, and restrictions for each campus.
- Enable advertising initiatives for other members of the sales team and manage select campaigns independently when appropriate.
- Partner with Operations, Finance, Legal, and Marketing to ensure deployments are viable, compliant, and positioned for long-term success.
- Provide partner and campus insights that influence product improvements and marketing materials.
- Maintain accurate forecasting, territory planning, and CRM updates for all campus growth and advertising opportunities.
- Manage a small sales team of 1-3 people as the business grows.
- Report progress, risks, and mitigations to the CBO consistently and proactively.
Requirements
- 8 to 10+ years of experience in sales, business development, or national account management within higher education, food-service providers, hospitality, or similarly complex enterprise environments.
- 2-3 years management experience in Sales or Business Development (Partnerships).
- Demonstrated success scaling multi-location or multi-region partnerships with large, matrixed organizations.
- B2B Sales and/or Business Development (Partnerships) experience.
- Ideally some experience in the college or business campus and / or the food services or hospitality industry.
- High proficiency with CRM tools, especially HubSpot, including forecasting, pipeline management, and structured deal progression.
- Strong financial and analytical skills with the ability to build economic models, evaluate campus viability, and create persuasive business cases.
- Proven ability to navigate long sales cycles, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and drive momentum in ambiguous environments.
- Strong presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to own strategy and execution simultaneously, balancing long-term planning with hands-on field activity.
- Ability to travel frequently for partner meetings and campus visits.
- A reputation for clarity, reliability, and building trust across internal teams and external Partners.
Benefits
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help shape and establish the company’s industry leadership in robotic last-mile delivery.
- Competitive compensation package.
- Being part of one of the top Tech Start-Ups in Latin America that is operating in the US market.
- Learn the best practices and methods that are useful in the startup world.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
salesbusiness developmentaccount managementpipeline managementforecastingeconomic modelingdata analysisnegotiationrelationship managementstrategic planning
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationpresentationinfluencingproblem-solvingtrust-buildingcollaborationadaptabilityanalytical thinkingexecution