Business Development Associate

Pushkin Industries • New York City, NY

9d • Remote

About The Position

Pushkin is looking for an organized and ambitious Business Development Associate to join our growing BD team. This role sits at the intersection of deal execution, licensing strategy, and partner management. You'll support the VP of Business Development on simpler deal types across the portfolio while taking ownership of executing Pushkin's licensing strategy and managing key partner relationships. You'll also play a key role in maintaining the operational systems that keep our commercial engine running. Our team is small and collaborative. This is an ideal role for an early-career professional who is eager to grow into a more senior BD role and wants to be close to the deal-making, strategy, and day-to-day of a growing media company.

Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in business development, podcasting, publishing, media, or a related field
• Assured and comfortable managing relationships with partners and stakeholders
• Extremely organized, with the ability to manage multiple deals and workstreams simultaneously without dropping details
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication
• Comfort working in spreadsheets and databases; Airtable experience a plus
• An operations mindset — you notice when a process is broken and want to fix it
• Genuine curiosity about AI tools and how they can improve BD and operational workflows
• Passionate consumer of podcasts and/or audiobooks

Nice To Haves

• Experience reviewing or working with contracts
• Familiarity with podcast, audiobook, or content licensing deal structures
• Existing network in publishing, podcasting, or media
• Exposure to financial modeling or P&L analysis
• Interest in growing toward a more senior BD or strategy role

Responsibilities

• Support the VP in drafting and negotiating deal terms for basic partnerships, including content licensing, custom content, and talent work-for-hire agreements
• Manage deal correspondence and track active negotiations from initial terms through to countersigned execution
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment on commercial terms before deals go out
• Support and execute the VP's licensing strategy across distribution, translation, and subscription licenses
• Source potential narrative content from third parties and manage the full pipeline from initial outreach through deal execution
• Manage Pushkin's third-party distribution and paywall licensing relationships, including maintaining and growing existing partnerships (e.g., BBC Sounds) and identifying new opportunities
• Support the VP on translation of Pushkin owned-and-operated podcasts and audiobooks
• Own the full lifecycle of Pushkin's QBR process with key partners — scheduling, data gathering, liaising with senior production, business, and commercial leadership, tracking follow-ups, and preparing initial decks for VP review
• Maintain the Airtable deals pipeline, ensuring records are accurate and up to date and tracking deal stages, deadlines, and key terms across multiple concurrent workstreams
• Support the VP in maintaining deal and contract checklists, templates, playbook and fallback language, and workflow guides

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• retirement plans
• two company-wide one-week breaks per year
• three weeks of paid vacation
• paid holidays
• parental leave eligibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed