Strategist – Partner Acquisition

Cruciferai; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Crucifer Academy in the UAE is seeking a seasoned Partnerships and Business Development leader to identify, evaluate, negotiate and onboard high-quality partners that enable learners to access our programs, deliver locally, recruit talent or strengthen market access across priority countries.

You will map partner categories, source candidates, conduct outreach, assess fit, coordinate diligence and contracting, and develop partner launch plans to drive early performance.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years in partnerships or business development, market expansion or related roles.
• Strong commercial judgment and disciplined pipeline management.
• International exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Map target partner categories by country and build a country partner pipeline.
• Source and qualify candidates, conduct outreach and meetings.
• Assess strategic fit and economics, coordinate diligence and contracting.
• Build partner launch plans and monitor early performance.

Skills

Partnerships

Business Development

Channel Partnerships

Market Expansion

International Exposure

Job description

Find and build the partnerships that make global market entry executable.

Identify, evaluate, negotiate and onboard high-quality partners that can help Crucifer Academy acquire learners, deliver locally, recruit talent or strengthen market access across priority countries.

The outcomes you will own

• Country partner pipeline
• commercial proposals
• onboarding
• performance tracking.

What you will do

• Map target partner categories by country
• source and qualify candidates
• conduct outreach and meetings
• assess strategic fit and economics
• coordinate diligence and contracting
• build partner launch plans
• monitor early performance

What you must bring

• 5-10+ years in partnerships, business development, channels, education services, market expansion or related roles
• strong commercial judgment
• disciplined pipeline management
• international exposure preferred.

What will differentiate you

• persuasive without over-selling
• analytical
• persistent
• accountable
• comfortable with targets and rejection.
• Qualified partner pipeline by market
• conversion to signed partners
• speed from identification to activation
• quality of partner economics
• partner contribution to launch and growth targets.

Why Crucifer

Crucifer AI is building an AI-first learning and technology ecosystem from the ground up. You will work in a high-ownership environment where ideas are expected to become working outcomes quickly, with direct access to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape systems before they become fixed.