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Remote associate director of development jobs are open across nonprofits, higher education, and healthcare organizations hiring on distributed teams, from mid-level fundraising roles to senior positions leading development strategy organization-wide. Employers hiring remotely right now include YipitData, Cooley LLP, and Compass Group USA. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Cooley is seeking an Associate Director of Business Development to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
About Cooley: Cooley is a global law firm with an expansive practice and more than 3,000 employees and partners worldwide. We value and celebrate diverse perspectives and strive to create a workplace where every individual can thrive. At the core of Cooley’s success is the exceptional talent and unwavering spirit of our people. We embrace individuality while fostering a ‘one-firm’ culture where collaboration and creativity thrive. Our people are the foundation of our success and the driving force behind everything we do.
Hybrid Schedule Philosophy: As part of the Cooley culture, we recognize and appreciate the value of being together, in person, to build comradery with others in the office and to be a contributing member of the Cooley office. However, we also appreciate the benefits and flexibility that come from remote working. As such, the default assumption for employees and partners is a hybrid schedule: some in-office presence and some work from home days absent certain essential in-office roles that require five (5) days/week in-office.
Position summary: This role is part of the Business Development Team, which leads the firm’s business development efforts in the market, in close partnership with Marketing, to build relationships, generate opportunities, and support growth across priority clients, prospects, and sectors. Responsible for partnering with Marketing and firm leaders to execute outreach strategies, create high-value connections, and convert engagement into a healthy and sustainable pipeline. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Position responsibilities:
- Market Relationship Management: Build and maintain a robust network of clients, prospects, referral sources, and key external influencers, proactively working within relevant market ecosystems to increase firm visibility.
- Strategic Marketing Integration: Coordinate closely with the Marketing team to execute outreach, manage events, and drive disciplined follow-up on campaigns to convert engagement into tangible business leads.
- Partner Force Multiplication: Act as a strategic bridge for firm partners by generating introductions, opening doors to key decision-makers, and creating access to high-value opportunities.
- Relationship Continuity & Transition: Ensure seamless relationship continuity through structured follow-up, managing handoffs between internal teams and maintaining ongoing contact with key stakeholders.
- Opportunity Identification & Qualification: Proactively identify growth opportunities across existing and prospective clients, focusing on moving early-stage conversations into a qualified, high-probability pipeline.
- Whitespace & Cross-Selling Analysis: Surface untapped "whitespace" and cross-selling opportunities within existing client relationships, connecting specific client needs to the firm’s broader people and capabilities.
- Pipeline Coordination & Support: Ensure all identified opportunities are supported with the necessary internal coordination and tactical follow-up to move them through the business development lifecycle.
- Market & Pipeline Discipline: Maintain rigorous visibility into relationship activity by tracking all outreach, introductions, and meetings, ensuring clear documentation of next steps and pipeline movement.
- Operational Rhythm & Proactivity: Contribute to a consistent and proactive business development rhythm in the market, shifting the team from a reactive posture to a disciplined, lead-generation engine.
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
- Ability to travel, as required
- 8+ years of applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
- Market-facing presence including a leverageable network
- Commercial instinct and proven relationship building skills, including strong working knowledge of enterprise CRM ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce)
- Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred:
- Prior legal industry or professional services experience
Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial by nature
- Excellent attention to detail
- Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
- Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
- Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
- Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent
- Proactive, analytical mindset
- Effective presentation skills
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $260,000-$320,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 25 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
Cooley is seeking an Associate Director of Business Development to join the Marketing and Client Development team.
About Cooley: Cooley is a global law firm with an expansive practice and more than 3,000 employees and partners worldwide. We value and celebrate diverse perspectives and strive to create a workplace where every individual can thrive. At the core of Cooley’s success is the exceptional talent and unwavering spirit of our people. We embrace individuality while fostering a ‘one-firm’ culture where collaboration and creativity thrive. Our people are the foundation of our success and the driving force behind everything we do.
Hybrid Schedule Philosophy: As part of the Cooley culture, we recognize and appreciate the value of being together, in person, to build comradery with others in the office and to be a contributing member of the Cooley office. However, we also appreciate the benefits and flexibility that come from remote working. As such, the default assumption for employees and partners is a hybrid schedule: some in-office presence and some work from home days absent certain essential in-office roles that require five (5) days/week in-office.
Position summary: This role is part of the Business Development Team, which leads the firm’s business development efforts in the market, in close partnership with Marketing, to build relationships, generate opportunities, and support growth across priority clients, prospects, and sectors. Responsible for partnering with Marketing and firm leaders to execute outreach strategies, create high-value connections, and convert engagement into a healthy and sustainable pipeline. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
Position responsibilities:
- Market Relationship Management: Build and maintain a robust network of clients, prospects, referral sources, and key external influencers, proactively working within relevant market ecosystems to increase firm visibility.
- Strategic Marketing Integration: Coordinate closely with the Marketing team to execute outreach, manage events, and drive disciplined follow-up on campaigns to convert engagement into tangible business leads.
- Partner Force Multiplication: Act as a strategic bridge for firm partners by generating introductions, opening doors to key decision-makers, and creating access to high-value opportunities.
- Relationship Continuity & Transition: Ensure seamless relationship continuity through structured follow-up, managing handoffs between internal teams and maintaining ongoing contact with key stakeholders.
- Opportunity Identification & Qualification: Proactively identify growth opportunities across existing and prospective clients, focusing on moving early-stage conversations into a qualified, high-probability pipeline.
- Whitespace & Cross-Selling Analysis: Surface untapped "whitespace" and cross-selling opportunities within existing client relationships, connecting specific client needs to the firm’s broader people and capabilities.
- Pipeline Coordination & Support: Ensure all identified opportunities are supported with the necessary internal coordination and tactical follow-up to move them through the business development lifecycle.
- Market & Pipeline Discipline: Maintain rigorous visibility into relationship activity by tracking all outreach, introductions, and meetings, ensuring clear documentation of next steps and pipeline movement.
- Operational Rhythm & Proactivity: Contribute to a consistent and proactive business development rhythm in the market, shifting the team from a reactive posture to a disciplined, lead-generation engine.
- All other duties as assigned or required
Skills and experience:
Required:
- After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
- Ability to work extended and/or weekend hours, as required
- Ability to travel, as required
- 8+ years of applicable experience in the field (e.g., marketing or business development)
- Market-facing presence including a leverageable network
- Commercial instinct and proven relationship building skills, including strong working knowledge of enterprise CRM ecosystems (e.g., Salesforce)
- Bachelor’s Degree
Preferred:
- Prior legal industry or professional services experience
Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial by nature
- Excellent attention to detail
- Approaches tasks through a lens of quality and consistency
- Approaches tasks through a digital first lens
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with ability to facilitate and solve problems
- Ability to organize, prioritize and coordinate multiple activities often under tight timelines
- Takes a consultative approach to set goals, drive projects, and achieve outcomes
- Strong judgment
- Team-player with collaborative spirit
- Unwavering ability to handle and maintain confidentiality regarding firm information, projects, client data
- High level of professionalism at all times
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and develop talent
- Proactive, analytical mindset
- Effective presentation skills
Cooley offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits package and is committed to fair and equitable employment practices. EOE.
The expected annual pay range for this position with a full-time schedule is $260,000-$320,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.
We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 25 days of Paid Time Off (“PTO”) and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote associate director of development jobs.
- Bachelor's degree required, with master's degree or CFRE certification preferred by many employers
- Five or more years of progressively responsible fundraising or development experience
- Demonstrated experience managing a major gifts portfolio or leading a development team
- Proficiency with donor management CRM systems such as Raiser's Edge, Salesforce, or similar platforms
- Strong written communication skills for grant writing, case statements, and donor correspondence
- Experience with prospect research tools and moves management processes
Tips for Your Remote Associate Director of Development Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
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Show async donor communication skills
Remote development employers want to see that you can build and maintain major donor relationships without face-to-face meetings. Include examples of stewardship sequences, written cultivation strategies, or video donor updates you've led independently.
Document your remote campaign results
Put concrete outcomes front and center on your resume: dollars raised, donor retention rates, grant awards secured, or gift officer performance you managed. Remote hiring panels can't observe your work style, so results on the page do that work for you.
Prepare for async-heavy remote interviews
Many remote nonprofit employers use written screening questions, video responses, or asynchronous panel stages before a live interview. Practice articulating your fundraising philosophy and leadership approach in writing as clearly as you would in person.
Remote Associate Director of Development Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote associate director of development job?
Remote associate director of development roles go to candidates who can demonstrate self-directed fundraising results without in-person oversight. Remote employers screen heavily for strong written communication, comfort managing donor relationships asynchronously, and the ability to coordinate gift officers or development staff across time zones. A portfolio of campaign outcomes, major gift closures, or grant wins you can speak to concretely gives you a clear edge over candidates who can only describe responsibilities.
Which companies hire remote associate director of developments?
Employers currently hiring remote associate director of developments include YipitData, Cooley LLP, and Compass Group USA, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first nonprofits, national advocacy organizations, and distributed higher education foundations are the most consistent sources of these openings.
Can you get a remote associate director of development job with no experience?
Yes, but remote associate director of development roles at the entry level are harder to land because you're expected to manage your own pipeline and donor relationships from day one without on-site mentorship. Smaller remote-first nonprofits and advocacy organizations are the most open to candidates stepping up. Showing a history of independent project ownership, a strong writing sample, and any measurable fundraising results, even from volunteer or coordinator roles, opens the door.
Do you need a degree for remote associate director of development jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about demonstrated fundraising results, major gift experience, and the ability to manage donor relationships independently than about a specific credential. A bachelor's degree is common in job postings, but candidates who bring a strong history of campaign leadership, grant writing, or planned giving work frequently move forward without advanced degrees.
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