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**About Designalytics** Designalytics helps consumer brands measure, predict, and optimize the performance of their packaging designs using behavioral science and analytics. We partner with CPG leaders to turn packaging into a growth lever not just a cost center. We operate at the intersection of insights, strategy, and commercial execution. If you thrive in consultative sales and enjoy working with data-driven clients, you'll fit here. **We are looking for someone who is already based in the Chicago area.** **The Role** We're seeking a Director, Client Development to own and expand enterprise CPG relationships through our syndicated data platform and on-demand design effectiveness testing. This role is ideal for someone who began their career in market research or analytics, developed a deep appreciation for rigor and methodology, and later transitioned into a commercial leadership role---owning revenue and long-term client partnerships. You'll serve as a trusted commercial and strategic partner to Director-, VP-, and GM-level stakeholders across brand, research, and analytics organizations. **What You'll Do** **Client Growth & Revenue Ownership** * Own and grow a portfolio of enterprise CPG accounts * Lead complex, consultative sales cycles for syndicated access and on-demand quantitative studies * Develop account strategies that expand relationships across brands, categories, and business units **Strategic Client Partnership** * Act as a senior thought partner to client leaders * Reframe design questions from risk mitigation and validation to growth opportunity and performance * Translate business objectives into research and analytics approaches that unlock measurable sales impact * Present findings, implications, and recommendations to executive audiences **Business Development & Collaboration** * Identify expansion opportunities within existing clients and pursue net-new prospects * Lead proposals, pricing, and commercial negotiations * Partner closely with internal research, analytics, and operations teams to ensure high-quality delivery and continuity **Who We're Looking For** **Required Experience** * 8--12 years in market research, analytics, or insights-led consulting * Strong grounding in quantitative methodologies and study design * Proven transition into client development or account leadership * Experience selling custom research or analytics solutions to large U.S. CPG organizations * Track record of owning revenue and expanding enterprise client relationships **Preferred** * Experience at a custom research firm or analytics consultancy * Comfortable engaging both brand-side and research/analytics buyers * Experience navigating long, multi-stakeholder, consultative sales cycles * Familiarity with the creative or design agency ecosystem **Why This Role** * Sell a proprietary growth platform, not commoditized research * Help clients move beyond misguided legacy doctrine and false confidence * Help shift design from a defensive validation exercise to an accountable growth lever * Work directly with senior leaders at top-tier CPG companies * Own client relationships end-to-end, from strategy through impact * Influence how client development and commercial strategy scale as the company grows **What We Offer** * Competitive base salary uncapped performance-based commission * Company-sponsored health plan, 401(k), unlimited PTO * Fully remote work environment * Smart, collaborative, high-integrity culture