# Business Development Manager, Home Services at News Break

- Company: News Break
- What the company does: NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
- Company website: https://www.newsbreak.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, California, United States; New York, New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/newsbreak/jobs/4705290006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/news-break-business-development-manager-home-services/

## About the role

NewsBreak is the nation's leading local news app, with one of the largest local audiences in the US. We're building something new on top of it: a lead generation platform for home-services businesses — roofing, HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, cleaning, remodeling.

## What they're looking for

- Own merchant acquisition end-to-end in home services: prospect, pitch, close, onboard. Onboarding is minutes, not weeks — the product does the setup
- Bring relationships, not just dials. This market is over-cold-called, we're hiring books of business and referral networks, not phone scripts
- Own the hard conversations. Lead-quality disputes, credits, saves, churn. If you've never had a contractor tell you their leads were junk, this isn't the role
- Close the loop with product. You'll talk to the team building the agent weekly, what merchants object to becomes what we build next
- Run pricing and packaging experiments — per-lead, subscription, hybrid. Nothing is sacred yet
- You've sold recurring $200–$2,000/month spend to owner-operators, mostly by phone, and carried a retention number — not just a bookings number

Tags: Nearby AI