Account Director / Business Development - New York
26 days ago
New York
Job Description VISUALHOUSE is an international creative agency focused on creating compelling brand stories for architecture, design, and the built environment. We work worldwide with leading architects, developers, and designers on landmark projects. Each project is unique, and to each, we bring passion and expertise with our multidisciplinary creative teams skilled in 3D visualization, still imagery, film, and animation, as well as branding and interactive. Together, these disciplines form a cohesive and creative vision to produce compelling brand narratives for our clients. We have studios in New York, London and Barcelona. Your Role at Visualhouse Reporting to the CEO and Heads of Department, you will lead and grow Visualhouse’s commercial relationships across the UK and Europe, acting as a senior client partner to developers, architects, agencies, and hospitality brands. You will play a key role in driving revenue growth, expanding strategic accounts, and positioning Visualhouse as a trusted creative partner across CGI production, film, branding, and digital content. This is a senior, client-facing role combining commercial leadership, relationship management, and hands-on pursuit strategy. You will represent the Visualhouse brand with authority, build long-term partnerships, and guide complex opportunities from early-stage conversations through to successful close. As a core member of the Business Development team, you will contribute directly to Visualhouse’s European growth strategy and commercial success. What You’ll Own Strategic Account Leadership • Own and grow a portfolio of high-value accounts across the UK and Europe, • Develop long-term relationship strategies with developers, architects, interior designers, luxury brands, and hospitality groups, • Identify and pursue new business opportunities across priority sectors and markets, • Win large-scale CGI, visualisation, film, branding, and digital content projects, • Lead pursuit strategy, proposal development, commercial negotiation, and deal closure, • Act as the senior point of contact for key accounts, engaging at executive and director level, • Ensure clear scoping, expectation-setting, and commercial oversight throughout engagements, • Work closely with CGI, Creative, Film, and Project Management teams to shape client solutions, • Provide clear commercial context and client insight to support excellence in delivery, • Monitor UK and European development pipelines to identify early-stage opportunities, • Maintain competitive and market intelligence to inform pricing, positioning, and service development, • Own CRM hygiene, pipeline forecasting, and regular commercial reporting, • 6–10+ years’ experience in senior, client-facing commercial roles within CGI/visualisation, creative production, architecture, real estate marketing, branding, or related sectors, • A proven track record of winning major projects and growing strategic or enterprise-level accounts, • An established network across UK and European developers, architects, hospitality brands, or creative agencies, • Exceptional communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, • Strong commercial acumen, with experience in scoping, pricing, forecasting, and revenue planning, • Confidence navigating complex organisations and coordinating multidisciplinary teams, • Competitive salary, • Generous holiday allowance, • Regular team outings and studio socials, • Monthly wellness budget to support physical and mental wellbeing, • Ongoing training, development, and progression opportunities, • A collaborative, creative studio environment with international exposure