Dublin, Leinster, Ireland · Hybrid
Verve is an experiential marketing agency that creates award-winning live experiences for world-famous brands. Our work covers brand experience, sponsorship activation, events and B2B, and we focus on creating live exper…
Skills: Business Development, Experiential Marketing, Pitch Management, Storytelling, Presentation Design
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Lead the development and delivery of growth strategies to identify and convert high-value opportunities across international offices. Act as a connector between client service, creative, and commercial teams to elevate pitch quality and agency reputation.
Requires strong experience in business development within a creative or experiential agency with a proven track record of winning major pitches. Candidates must possess exceptional storytelling skills and a deep understanding of how brands leverage live experiences for business impact.
Verve is an experiential marketing agency that creates award-winning live experiences for world-famous brands. Our work covers brand experience, sponsorship activation, events and B2B, and we focus on creating live experiences that have lasting impact. Our offices are in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore and we are a proud B Corp.
We are seeking a Dublin-based New Business Director (London considered with regular Dublin travel) to identify, shape, and help convert high-value growth opportunities across the Verve offices, while promoting the agency in the market.
This is a pivotal role sitting at the intersection of our client service, creative, and commercial teams. You will act as a key connector, bringing structure, insight, and momentum to how Verve wins and grows. We are looking for someone with business development experience and a strong grounding in experiential marketing — someone who is commercially sharp, strategically curious, entrepreneurial, and a genuine team player.
Key Responsibilities
Growth & Business Development
Please note: While this role currently has no direct reports, there may be scope to build and manage a team as the department scales in the future.
Strategic Guidance
Agency Reputation
Effectiveness & Cultural Intelligence
Key Skills and Experience Required
Our Ideal Candidate
Hours and Location
This is a permanent, Dublin-based role operating on a hybrid working model (office-based with optional WFH days). London will also be considered for the right candidate, with regular travel to Dublin required. The role involves close collaboration with teams across our Dublin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore hubs, which may include occasional international travel.
Our Commitments
Great Place To Work® Certified
Exceptional work is rooted in an exceptional workplace. Certified in September 2025 based entirely on employee feedback, our culture is built on trust, inclusion, and genuine care for our people.
Sustainability Leaders
Verve is proudly ISO 20121, ISO 14001, and B Corp certified, one of the few event agencies to hold all three. We are deeply committed to driving positive environmental and social change through our workplace and our events.
Diversity & Inclusion
We know that to realise our ambition, we depend on diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities. We actively support and empower an inclusive, equal-opportunity culture.
Proudly B Corp Certified
We are Verve Live Agency. Experts in event management, virtual & hybrid events, creative design, and digital & experiential marketing. Under one roof Verve houses a multi-disciplinary team of creatives, storytellers, techies, and thinkers – as well as the producers, makers, and doers who make it happen. Creatively led, insight-driven sponsorship activation, event management, live brand experience, design and digital are all in our wheelhouse. We help brands connect with people by demonstrating their human side – their ingenuity, their generosity, their creativity and their sense of adventure. Because when brands show their human side, they elicit an emotion - and catch our attention, change our behaviours and earn our loyalty. With offices in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore, and as part of The Opus Group, we have partners throughout Europe and across the globe.
Offices: 11-15 Erne Street Upper, Dublin, D2, IE · 1st Floor, Sati The Tanneries, 55 Bermondsey Street, London, London SE1 3XN, GB · B2, John M. Keynesplein 12, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1066EP, NL · 31 Tanjong Pagar, #03-01, Singapore , 088454, SG
Proudly B Corp Certified
We are Verve Live Agency. Experts in event management, virtual & hybrid events, creative design, and digital & experiential marketing. Under one roof Verve houses a multi-disciplinary team of creatives, storytellers, techies, and thinkers – as well as the producers, makers, and doers who make it happen. Creatively led, insight-driven sponsorship activation, event management, live brand experience, design and digital are all in our wheelhouse. We help brands connect with people by demonstrating their human side – their ingenuity, their generosity, their creativity and their sense of adventure. Because when brands show their human side, they elicit an emotion - and catch our attention, change our behaviours and earn our loyalty. With offices in Dublin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore, and as part of The Opus Group, we have partners throughout Europe and across the globe.
Offices: 11-15 Erne Street Upper, Dublin, D2, IE · 1st Floor, Sati The Tanneries, 55 Bermondsey Street, London, London SE1 3XN, GB · B2, John M. Keynesplein 12, Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1066EP, NL · 31 Tanjong Pagar, #03-01, Singapore , 088454, SG
