About Layer

Layer is on a mission to empower game artists with cutting-edge AI tools for generating images, videos, 3D, and audio assets. Our platform helps artists create high-quality assets more efficiently and flexibly, redefining the creative process in the gaming industry. As a rapidly growing startup, we’re looking for passionate engineers who thrive in fast-paced environments and want to build products with real impact.

About the Role

We’re looking for a fast, energetic, driven, product minded Chinese Speaking Sr. Business Development Manager (Contractor) to spearhead Layer's adoption in China market, working closely with Art Directors, Product Managers, Producers and Gaming executives in the region to help update game art pipelines into AI powered ones, closing opportunities and scaling Layer's happy customer base. As the first hire for China market, you'll act like a local leader, understand the product requirements (if any) while building, closing, and managing a pipeline of Chinese customers. This is a perfect role for BDMs who enjoy building & selling early stage products in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environments. You'll be the eyes and ears of Layer in China market and bring back any insights to contribute to Layer's product development ensuring Layer to become a partner of choice of the top game companies in the region.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prospect, and qualify new business opportunities in Chinese market share any learnings and requirements from the market with Layer's leadership team to help improve Layer products
• Develop tailored pitch decks and outreach strategies for high-potential leads
• Own and manage the BD pipeline: from initial contact to closing. We currently expect BDM to handle all relationship from onboarding to support. However rest assured you're not fully alone in support we do have a support artist to help you with day to day support tasks as well as engineering support to help with troubleshooting in case of any potential issues.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Product teams to refine value propositions and messaging.
• Build and nurture long-term relationships with key stakeholders and decision-makers
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and client meetings as Sr. BDM as well as Public Speaker, yes we would love you to be the voice of the company when it's needed in local events where applicable.
• Track & optimize your key metrics (conversion rates, pipeline velocity, etc.) and report on progress regularly. 
• Work on case studies and co-marketing opportunities with partners. 

Requirements

• Personal interest with game art as an artist or hobbyist or hands on experience in managing creative content for games, following industry trends about live ops or marketing creatives.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in business development, partnerships, or sales (preferably in SaaS, gaming, or creative tech). If you are more senior, that's also great, please apply anyways and we'll chat.
• Strong communicator with a knack for storytelling and persuasion
• Experience using creative software such as Adobe Suite, or Blender, Maya etc.
• Experience in public speaking at business conferences
• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas, please come ready with your numbers and references.
• Experience negotiating complex deals with enterprise or mid-market clients

Why Join Layer AI?

• Innovative Projects: Shape the future of AI-driven tools for game artists.
• Autonomy: Lead the regional book of business from 1-100.
• Growth: Join a rapidly expanding startup with abundant growth opportunities.
• Collaboration: Work with passionate technologists and creatives.

Apply Now

If you’re excited about redefining creative workflows with generative AI, we’d love to hear from you! Please send your resume and any relevant portfolio links. Let’s shape the future of game art together.

Our Values:

🚀  Execute Pragmatically: We approach work with speed and practicality in mind. We take individual ownership over our work, and we trust each other to deliver, but we avoid working in isolation. We strive to be excellent at what we do and will take time to deepen our knowledge of our craft; the more we learn, the better we can execute!

💓  Be Open: At Layer, openness applies to both the business and the people who work within it. We are continually open to giving and receiving feedback and learning new things from each other. We communicate openly and honestly. We are humble and kind and acknowledge that we are not always right.

🌎 Artists First: We are building a tool for artists, to enable them to be more creative and imaginative. We make sure that everything we are building serves artists first.

What we offer:

• Equity plan subject to receiving a full-time offer from Layer team based on performance
• Competitive rates for contractor
• Laptop / equipment budget

Commitment to equal opportunity:

We believe that everyone should work in an environment free from discrimination and harassment. All applicants will be treated fairly and judged solely on their merits. Our recruitment process is open, honest, and fair.