Strategist – Partner Acquisition

CRUCIFER AI TECHNOLOGIES; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

CRUCIFER AI TECHNOLOGIES seeks a partnerships professional to identify, qualify and onboard high-quality partners to expand learner reach, deliver locally and strengthen market access. You will build a strong partner pipeline, lead outreach, and drive commercial proposals and diligence across priority countries.

You will manage end-to-end partner programs, monitor early performance and implement corrective actions, with a hunter mindset and accountability for achieving targets.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years in partnerships, business development, channels, education services, market expansion or related roles
• Strong commercial judgment and negotiation capability
• Disciplined pipeline management and ability to manage cross-border efforts
• International exposure preferred

Responsibilities

• 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
• Replace weak partners quickly

Skills

Partnerships

Business development

Negotiation

Pipeline management

International exposure

Job description

• partner qualification

What you will be here to achieve

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
• partner qualification
• outreach
• commercial proposals
• diligence
• 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
• replace weak partners quickly.

What you must bring

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

What will differentiate you

• Hunter mindset
• persuasive without over-selling
• analytical
• persistent
• accountable
• comfortable with targets and rejection.

Key deliverables

• 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.