Director of Development

Director of Development

Location: Los Angeles, New York, Miami (Remote) or Toronto (In-Office)

Company: B3 Multimedia Inc.

Reports To: President & Executive Team

About B3 Multimedia

B3 Multimedia is a Toronto-based television production company specializing in premium lifestyle, factual, and documentary programming for Canadian and international broadcasters and streaming platforms. We create ambitious, talent-driven series that connect with audiences and deliver commercial success.

We're looking for an entrepreneurial Director of Development to build and lead our development department from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity for someone experienced, but scrappy and ambitious, who thrives on relationships, creativity, strategy, and sales, and wants to play a key role in shaping the future business of a growing production company. Must have active and relevant relationships across broadcasters, streamers, distributors, agents, talent representatives, and/or production executives; a track record of pitching and selling full-scale series; the ability to independently run development meetings; and an eagerness to build and manage a company’s full slate.

Job Overview

The Director of Development will be responsible for generating and developing new series, identifying market opportunities, cultivating relationships with buyers (broadcasters, brands, streamers, distributors), talent, agents, and securing development deals and series greenlights.

This role combines creative development, business development, pitching, and strategic industry networking. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable creating a compelling pitch deck, meeting with network executives, pitching projects with the goal of securing development funding, commissions, and series orders, supporting talent attachment negotiations, and identifying, chasing, and securing television formats.

Key Responses

Development & Content Creation

• Generate original television concepts, formats, and franchise opportunities.
• Identify trends and gaps in the marketplace across lifestyle, competition, factual, and doc genres.
• Develop concepts from idea stage through network-ready pitch materials.
• Write and oversee the creation of:
• One-sheets
• Pitch decks
• Sizzle concepts
• Treatments
• Series bibles
• Talent presentations
• Development budgets
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously through various stages of development.

Industry Relationships

• Act as a key external ambassador for B3 Multimedia, proactively introducing the company to buyers, partners, talent representatives, and industry stakeholders across North America.
• Build and maintain strong relationship between B3 Multimedia and:
• Broadcasters
• Streamers
• Production executives
• Agents and managers
• Publicists
• Talent representatives
• Brands and sponsors
• Regularly meet with buyers to understand commissioning priorities and opportunities.
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, markets, and networking opportunities.

Talent & IP Development

• Support negotiations in partnership with senior leadership, legal, and business affairs.
• Identify high-profile talent, experts, influencers, and personalities with series potential.
• Secure talent attachments and participate in talent negotiations.
• Source underlying intellectual property including books, podcasts, articles, social media personalities, and existing formats.
• Develop strategic partnerships that can help accelerate projects toward greenlight.

Pitching & Sales

• Lead development pitches to broadcasters, streamers, distributors, and brands.
• Coordinate and participate in network meetings and development presentations.
• Track all active pitches and development opportunities.
• Develop strategies to maximize the likelihood of development funding and series orders.
• Work closely with senior leadership to secure commissions and greenlights.

Development Department Leadership

• Establish and manage development workflows, processes, and tracking systems.
• Build and maintain a development pipeline and slate.
• Manage development schedules and priorities.
• Help recruit and mentor future development team members as the department grows.

Qualifications

Required Experience

• 5+ years of television development experience.
• Must have active and relevant relationships across US broadcasters, streamers, distributors, agents, talent representatives, and/or production executives.
• Proven track record developing and selling unscripted television programming in the US.
• Strong understanding of American and Canadian television industries.
• Experience creating pitch decks, treatments, and development materials.

Skills & Attributes

• Highly creative with strong commercial instincts.
• Outstanding presentation and pitching abilities.
• Natural relationship builder and networker.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with strong initiative.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Strong market instincts and the ability to translate audience, platform, and buyer trends into commercially viable series ideas.
• Comfortable working independently and building new systems from scratch.
• Passion for television and content creation.

Measuring Success

Within the first 12 months, the successful candidate will:

• Build a structured development department and pipeline.
• Create a structured development tracker
• Establish 25–40 active buyer/talent/distributor conversations
• Build company’s development slate; deliver 10-15 polished concepts
• Take 7 - 10 projects to active pitch stage
• Secure development interest, LOIs, talent attachments, or funded development where possible 

Salary commensurate with experience.

If this sounds like you, send your CV to info@b3multimedia.com with the subject line "DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT".

WHY JOIN B3 MULTIMEDIA

This is an opportunity to help define the creative future of a growing production company. You'll work directly with senior leadership, have significant influence over the company's development strategy, and play a critical role in bringing new television series to life.

If you're passionate about creating great television, building industry relationships, and turning ideas into greenlit series, we'd love to hear from you.

Interested candidates: Send CV to info@b3multimedia.com with the subject line "DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT". Due to a high volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.