Flipspaces - Assistant General Manager - Business Development & Strategic Partnerships

AGM/DGM Business Development and Strategic Partnerships

Job Overview:

As Flipspaces scales globally, the Founders Office plays a critical role in unlocking high-value partnerships, strategic accounts, and institutional relationships that shape the next decade of growth. In this role, you will represent the Founders Office in cultivating, expanding, and institutionalizing a powerful network of CXOs, investors, developers, occupiers, and strategic partners - who already contribute 2030% of Flipspaces high-value business today. Your mandate is simple, but non-trivial: Turn trusted relationships into repeatable, scalable, and compounding business outcomes. You will operate as a strategic individual contributor, working closely with the Founder, supported by a lean team, owning program design, relationship orchestration, and conversion outcomes end-to-end.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design, own, and run a structured monthly engagement framework for the Founders CXO, Investor, and Strategic Partner network.

- Curate monthly business wishlists including accounts, geographies, asset classes, and mandates.

- Prepare high-quality briefing notes and context decks for outreach.

- Drive monthly review cycles tracking: 1. Introductions made, 2. Conversations initiated, 3. Opportunities logged, 4. Conversions closed.

- Deepen existing relationships within the Founders close circle across: 1. Real estate developers and occupiers, 2. PE, VC, and family offices, 3. Enterprise CXOs and founders.

- Proactively expand the network through your own extended personal and professional relationships.

- Position Flipspaces as a trusted long-term partner, not a transactional vendor.

- Own and drive large, complex, high-value mandates originating from the Founders Office.

- Partner with internal teams to shape solutions.

- Engage credibly with senior stakeholders on commercial, strategic, and delivery considerations.

- Conceptualize and execute curated, high-signal engagements such as closed-door CXO dinners, investor roundtables, and geo-specific or sector-focused events.

- Work closely with marketing and leadership to ensure account-based nurturing for priority relationships.

- Communicate with the gravitas, clarity, and judgment of a founder.

- Represent Flipspaces credibly in senior-most forums.

- Act as a trusted extension of the Founders voice, values, and vision.

Who You Are:

- 6-8 years of experience in strategic partnerships, enterprise business, consulting, investment banking, or founder-led businesses.

- Proven exposure to high-value, relationship-driven deals.

- Global exposure across India, Middle East, and/or USA strongly preferred.

- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skillsyou can command a room of CXOs.

- Strong program management mindsetyou bring structure to ambiguity.

- High learning agility and ability to synthesize across design, business, and capital.

- Comfort with data-assisted decision-making including tracking pipelines, conversions, and ROI.

- Ability to operate independently with minimal Thinks like a founder, not a function owner.

- Relationship-first, outcome-driven.

- High integrity, discretion, and trustworthiness.

- Calm under pressure; credible across cultures and geographies.

- Enjoys building something long-term and compounding.

Network (Strong Plus):

- Existing relationships within: 1. Real estate developers and occupiers, 2. Investor, PE, VC, and family office ecosystem, 3. Fortune 2000 and enterprise leadership.

- Ability to open doors across India, Dubai, and the USA.

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