Associate Partner - Business Development

This is not a salaried BD job It is a seat at the table for someone who wants to build a firm not join one You will work directly with the Founder amp Managing Partner to originate and close search and advisory mandates with a written path to Partner and profit share tied to the revenue you bring in Compensation starts modest and scales with what you originate if you need a market-rate base before proving yourself this is not the role

• Originate new client relationships with CEOs
• CHROs
• boards and NRC chairs across KSA GCC
• Convert conversations into retained search and advisory mandates
• proposals
• pricing
• negotiation
• Co-lead delivery on mandates you win
• client management
• shortlist presentation
• offer stage
• Build sector or functional practice ownership
• e g
• logistics
• fintech
• PIF portfolio
• boards
• Represent the firm at industry events and on Linked In
• grow the brand alongside the founder
• Help shape firm operations
• tooling and process as we scale

• Modest base salary for the ramp-up period
• Commission on fee revenue you originate
• paid on client collection
• Clear
• written milestones to Partner title and profit share
• revenue thresholds not tenure
• Full transparency on firm economics from day one

• 8 15 years in executive search, HR consulting, professional services BD, or a senior corporate HR/talent role with a strong external network
• A real, warm network of decision-makers in Saudi Arabia demonstrable, not aspirational
• Proven track record of selling retained or advisory services (or hiring senior leaders repeatedly through agencies and knowing what great looks like)
• Entrepreneurial risk appetite and runway: comfortable with modest fixed pay for the first 6 12 months in exchange for upside
• Integrity and discretion you ll handle confidential C-suite mandates from day one
• Fluent Arabic and English;
  Saudi national or long-tenured GCC resident strongly preferred