Accomplished Business Development Leader - Job Description
We’re looking for a passionate and disciplined professional with a successful track record in identifying, generating and closing large business development deals; a talented individual to help us build business relationships with brand owners, media and entertainment companies, game companies, internet companies, advertising agencies, and packaged goods companies. This is an ideal opportunity for a accomplished individual looking for an entrepreneurial challenge with a growing firm and looking to become a critical member of a dynamic leadership team and industry!

Experience in the mobile and/or internet industry is highly desirable, although experience with advertising, media or packaged goods will also be considered.

Job Responsibilities
- Fully understand Donat Group’s strategic and technical roadmap
- Identify how partnerships can grow our business and can meet our partner’s objectives
- Develop the strategic plan for Donat Group’s Business Development efforts
- Manage the execution of the Business Development Plan with a goal-oriented focus on profitable, sustainable revenue generation, customer acquisition and brand awareness
- Track and report the status and success of all business development deals (Pipeline Management)
- Negotiate and close larger deals in the pipeline
- Work with the Production Team to make sure that implementation and ongoing management of partnerships are optimized
- Fully understand and represent clients’ needs and market trends, especially as they pertain to the company’s strategic direction
- Support Donat Group’s Growth initiatives both domestically and internationally - Be a key contributor to the management team and the future direction of the company

Qualifications
- Min. 7 years experience working in Business Development, ideally within the Internet, Mobile, Advertising, or Digital Media space
- Willingness, discipline and organizational capacity to identify and contact a large funnel of opportunities consisting of internet, advertising, media and entertainment companies
- Ability to identify, negotiate, and execute strong strategic partnerships and work in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in structuring deals and negotiating contracts
- Extensive executive-level client management experience
- Strategic thinker with excellent communication skills
- Great attention to detail
- Goal and solutions oriented
- Strong work ethic—a hard worker who works smart and fast; and the ability to overcome obstacles
- Exceptional communication, presentation and collaboration skills
- Entrepreneurial, aggressive, dynamic, intelligent, business savvy, curious, passionate, flexible

Big Pluses
- Comprehensive understanding and contacts in the social networking space
- Strong relationships in the media, digital media and tech space
- Experience managing and monetizing B2C web sites, including driving traffic and subscribers to raise brand awareness
- Online marketing, advertising and search engine optimization expertise

About Donat Group
Donat Group is a creative technology company focused on developing online community and social networking applications. In operation since 2002, we have quickly become a leading developer of social networking communities and applications for the music, gaming, education and knowledge management industries.

As an established and experienced web design firm, we have a long track record of developing innovative and successful community sites and user-centered online tools for the sharing and distribution of digital content. We have amassed extensive expertise developing large-scale projects with such clients as the Alberta and BC governments, Wal-mart, Apple, Fox Interactive, BMW Films, Ford Motor Company, and Viacom. Recent projects include the Project Opus music community, as well as leading-edge, lifestyle communities involving Virtual Worlds such as MTV’s Virtual Lower Eastside and Virtual Laguna Beach. Donat Group is on an aggressive growth path!