Business Development Manager

Luxury Remodeling and Design Build

Austin, TX

Posted: December 29, 2025

Are you an experienced remodeling sales professional who thrives in long-cycle, consultative environments? Do you enjoy guiding homeowners through complex decisions and earning trust over time rather than pushing one-call closes?

Our client is a respected luxury design-build firm seeking a Business Development Manager to take ownership of front-end sales and relationship development. This role is ideal for someone who understands how high-end remodeling and custom residential projects are actually sold and wants to play a meaningful role in shaping a growing sales function.

This is not a transactional sales role. It is a relationship-driven, process-oriented position designed for professionals who know how to move homeowners step by step toward aligned decisions.

Why This Role Exists

Our client has built a strong reputation through craftsmanship, planning, and client experience. Historically, sales have been owner-led. The business has reached a point where it needs a dedicated business development leader who can consistently guide prospects through early engagement, establish clarity, and help formalize a repeatable sales process.

The Business Development Manager will play a central role in helping the company grow while protecting quality, margins, and the overall client experience.

What You Will Be Responsible For

As the Business Development Manager, you will:

• Own inbound lead response and initial qualification

• Lead consultative discovery conversations with homeowners

• Sell pre-design and design agreements as the primary close

• Guide prospects through a structured, multi-step sales process

• Manage long sales cycles common to luxury remodeling and design-build work

• Build and maintain relationships with referral partners such as designers, architects, and realtors

• Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and activity tracking

• Represent the brand professionally with high-net-worth clients

This role prioritizes clarity, trust, and alignment over pressure or volume.

Who This Role Is Best Suited For

This opportunity strongly favors candidates with a background in luxury remodeling sales or high-end residential construction sales.

You are likely a strong fit if you have experience in:

• Luxury remodeling sales

• Design build remodeling environments

• High-end residential construction sales

• Selling multi-phase projects that include pre-construction or design agreements

Candidates with remodeling sales experience tend to succeed here because they understand homeowner psychology, longer decision timelines, and the importance of earning commitment before construction begins.

Ideal Skills and Traits

• Proven ability to sell consultative, high-value projects

• Comfortable selling without needing to be the technical expert

• Strong executive presence in client-facing settings

• Ability to ask for commitments and guide decisions forward

• Disciplined follow-up and pipeline management

• Confidence discussing scope, process, and budgets early

• Comfort operating in a growing organization where systems continue to evolve

What This Role Is Not

• Not a one-call close environment

• Not transactional or price-driven sales

• Not a networking-only role without accountability

• Not a purely technical or design position

This role is about guiding clients through a thoughtful process and closing alignment, not pushing products.

Growth Opportunity

This position offers meaningful long-term upside for the right individual. As the company grows, this role has the potential to expand into broader sales leadership with influence over process, strategy, and future hires.

Interested in Learning More?

If you have a background in luxury remodeling sales or high-end residential construction sales and are looking for a role where your experience, judgment, and professionalism truly matter, we would like to speak with you.

Click Request More Information to start a confidential conversation and learn more about the role, the sales process, and what success looks like in the first year.