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Business Development Coordinator
As a Business Development Coordinator, you are a key part of Online Optimism’s presence in the Greater New Orleans market. You will have a prominent role in the local business community and be a first point of contact for a number of our New Orleans clients, growing our local book by building real relationships in real rooms. When you’re not developing relationships IRL, you’ll be producing ways to impress them in their feeds, and on their screens. This is the perfect role that rewards someone who loves talking, whether that’s to a prospective client at a networking event, or speaking on camera about what New Orleans businesses should do to grow in 2027. You’ll be working directly under our VP of Client Relationships, Jordan, with a straightforward path to growth.
Any offers to interview or of employment will come from emails ending in @onlineoptimism.com. Don’t ever click a link or provide private information to anyone saying they are from Online Optimism if their message does not come from this email domain.
We are a smaller business that puts people first — which means we take the time to review each application that comes in ourselves, not with an AI processor. We ask that you approach this application in kind, writing your answers yourself and limiting the use of AI so we get to know the real you.
Jordan
VP of Client Relationships
Lauren
Sr Content Director
The application period for this position is now closed.
If you applied, you will receive a decision from us by 12:00 am on October 2, 2026.
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Job Responsibilities
We expect the job to be around:
- 40% Networking & Community Presence: Representing Online Optimism at local events like the New Orleans Chamber, New Orleans & Company, and StayLocal. (There’s no cold-calling or even cold-emailing here)
- 30% Business Development: Creating proposals for inbound leads from New Orleans and onboarding your new clients.
- 25% Inbound Marketing: Producing resources on your own (like our NOLA influencer list), or with the help of colleagues (our NOLA street tiles generator) that increase brand awareness in our local market.
- 5% Always Optimizing: providing ideas and suggestions to improve our processes and results.
We offer a hybrid work environment where you can choose to work in-office at our New Orleans headquarters or at home. However, this specific role requires:
🏠 Physically living and working in the Greater New Orleans area.
🤝 Regular attendance at New Orleans networking events, business mixers, and community gatherings on behalf of Online Optimism, including some mornings and evenings. You will pick your events, so there’s flexibility in what you’re actually attending, but we’d expect you to attend 5–8 events per month.
📍 In-person meetings with local clients and prospects at their New Orleans locations.
We’d ask if you’re going to be spending extended amounts of time (3+ weeks) outside Louisiana, you give us advance notice so we can plan around it.
Where You’ll Work
Online Optimism is an award winning creative digital agency founded in 2012 recognized for our commitment to staff and company culture. We’ve been named a Best Place to Work in New Orleans 8 times, as well as an Inc. Best Workplace and a Worklife Most Outstanding Employer. Our benefits include insurance, retirement plans, plentiful PTO + unlimited time off for physical or mental health, and annual compensation increases.
We offer a hybrid work environment where you can choose to work in-office at our headquarters in New Orleans or at home every day. We are also happy to provide you with a shared desk at a coworking space in your city if you’d like. Please note that full-time Optimists must be based in the United States.
We're excited to meet you 👇
Who are we looking for?
If you’re looking for a place to grow where your work (and you) will be appreciated and rewarded, you’ll find a home at Online Optimism.
You must have at least:
- 1 to 4 years of professional experience, preferably in marketing, sales, account management, business development, or a similar client-facing role.
- A genuine enthusiasm for in-person networking and a comfort walking into a room of people you don’t know yet.
- Knowledge of a range of digital marketing tactics, including social media, SEO/GEO/AEO, Google Ads, content marketing, and video production.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- An existing connection to the New Orleans business community, or a clear excitement to build one fast.
In addition, the strongest candidates will have:
- Previous agency experience
- Digital marketing certifications or a degree in marketing
- Proficiency with utilizing AI tools (we’re a Claude company)
- Basic knowledge of WordPress or web design
- The knowledge to answer with a local high school rather than college when asked “Where’d you go to school?”
- An existing local network in New Orleans
- A portfolio or track record of marketing work or new business wins
Our Application Process
- First, you should review all of the information on this page to confirm this job interests you!
- You apply. Our team excitedly opens up your application.
- Strong candidates will be contacted via email to complete a 3-hour assignment for fake clients, which you will be compensated for with a $75 Visa gift card for your time spent on it.
- We’ll review all of the assignments and move the top 2–3 candidates forward.
- Those candidates will meet with direct supervisor Jordan (VP of Client Relationships), Flynn (CEO) and Meara (VP of People) for a recorded final 30–60 minute interview.
- We make the top applicant an offer, and provide you with 2–3 days to make a decision. You (hopefully) accept and become an Optimist!
Job Benefits
- Health insurance for you and your dependents. Online Optimism covers $270 / month, and has three plans for you to choose from.
- Dental insurance for you and any dependents – Online Optimism covers $20 / month.
- Vision Insurance: We cover 100% for yourself, which is $75.12. Our plan (at most stores) covers new glasses & frames up to $200 / year.
- Short term disability for 16 weeks, 100% covered by Online Optimism.
- Life Insurance ($10,000 policy), 100% covered by Online Optimism.
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program) through ComPsych. While this offers a few benefits, the most common one is its allowance of up to three therapy sessions per life event.
All of your insurance begins on the 1st of the month following your first day of employment. You can see estimated costs for your insurance plan via our handy-dandy calculator, here. Please note we have new plans rolling out on June 1, 2026 so if you are looking at this web page before that date, it might not be accurate to what you will receive.
- All employees receive raises at least annually, and our high-performers have earned raises two to three times a year in the past.
- All employees receive holiday bonuses. The amount depends on our company’s success throughout the year.
While financial compensation and insurance is important, we believe that your time spent outside of work is often just as important to maintaining a healthy balance—one of our values is Work is work, not life. This position will receive:
- PTO (in additional to unlimited sick time):
- You’ll begin accruing PTO on your first day at our normal rate which equals 15 days of PTO per year.
- While you’ll be accruing PTO, we don’t allow PTO to be used your first 60 days. (You will receive our standard holidays.)
- Any vacation time will roll over to the next year (with a cap of 15 days).
- Half day for your birthday (available anytime your birthday week).
- Unlimited sick time for physical or mental wellbeing. This includes unlimited time for things including bereavement, mental health days, miscarriages, or any reason our Optimists believe they won’t be working at 100%.
- If for some reason a medical procedure isn’t available near you, we will also fly you to another state where it is and pay for a night’s hotel stay, no questions asked—you can read more about our out-of-state medical leave policy here, rolled out in June 2022.
- 14 holidays per year, including: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lundi Gras* (the day before Mardi Gras), Mardi Gras*, Good Friday*, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Eve*, Christmas Day*, New Year’s Eve.
- The 5 religious holidays, marked with an asterisk*, may be shifted around within the same calendar year per employee’s wishes.
- Holidays which fall on weekends are moved to the business day before or after.
We work hard to create a supportive, optimistic environment. This includes:
- Our office hours are 9–5, Monday–Friday. You will be able to have flexible work hours including 8–4 and 10–6.
- We have an in-place policy that we don’t require employees to check their email while outside the office. We believe strongly in maintaining a work/life balance.
- Our “You Do You” remote work rule means that you get to choose whether you come into our beautiful office or work from home each day.
We also like to think we have a pretty great office culture. We have the usual fun stuff, and then go far above and beyond what you might be expecting:
- Casual dress code
- Top of the line computers to work on.
- We offer free web hosting to any Optimist.
- We have a 200% employee donation match program called Donate, Elevate.
- We provide quarterly volunteer opportunities, and allow staff paid time out of their day for opportunities of their own (or as a poll worker).
- Gifts for everyone on a new client account, or website launch.
- We cover the cost of any networking groups or events related to your career or skills that you want to work on.
- We enjoy an annual retreat together.
- After your first 12 months of employment, you’re eligible for paid maternity or parental (adoptive) leave every twelve months, rolling. Paid is 100% your base salary. It is sixteen weeks paid maternity leave, and eight weeks of paid leave for adoptions/paternity.
- In your third year of employment, we’ll send you to a conference related to your field of study within the U.S., all expenses paid.
- After 5 years of employment at Online Optimism, we extend your PTO from 15 days to 20.
- After 10 years of employment at Online Optimism, we’ll provide you with an additional 3 week sabbatical.
We have no non-compete. You should only be at Online Optimism if you believe it’s the best opportunity for your career at this time.
Lastly, we’re very confident that everyone who receives one of our offers is going to be a great fit at Online Optimism. If, however, you don’t think it is after 60 days, no problem, we’ll offer you a buyout package. This means that we’ll offboard you over the next week (with insurance til the end of the current month), pay you a $2,000 severance package (after receiving our equipment back,) and wish you the best in your career somewhere else.
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Our application is unique—written by humans, and also reviewed by humans. It typically takes us a full day to look through the 100–300 applications we receive for our roles. We read through every answer you provide, so we appreciate your time and effort on it. We strongly recommend that you look through the entire thing before starting, as there are specific questions you’ll need to answer. There is a Save & Continue Later button at the bottom should you need it.
Our goal is to provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and Optimists. We do not discriminate on the basis of race; color; religion; marital status; age; national origin; ancestry; physical or mental disability; medical condition; pregnancy; genetic information; gender; sexual orientation; gender identity or expression; veteran status; natural, protective, and cultural hairstyles; or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.