Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships

About the Role

We’re hiring a Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships to source, close and launch high impact strategic partnerships for the company. The ideal candidate is a world-class hunter with a track-record of closing game-changing deals and turning them into material P&L impact. You will own the full deal cycle—from strategy and sourcing through pitch, negotiation, and close—with a focus on embedding Flex’s suite of offerings into platforms across the proptech ecosystem, unlocking significant revenue and customer acquisition for the business.

What You’ll Do

• Hunt, close, and scale net-new strategic partnerships that drive revenue, distribution, and/or product expansion
• Own the full partner sales cycle: prospecting, outreach, qualification, value mapping, business case development, financial modeling, contract negotiation, and go-to-market execution. Engage executive stakeholders at prospective partners to build conviction and navigate multi-party, high-stakes deals
• Develop custom value propositions and proposals based on deep understanding of the partner’s business, pain points, and priorities
• Lead commercial negotiations involving bespoke, complex economic structures that align incentives and scale with growth
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Marketing, and Finance to design high-impact integrations and go-to-market motions
• Build repeatable playbooks for evaluating new partner categories, selling into them, and scaling early wins
• Report on pipeline health, forecasts, and strategic priorities with clarity and rigor at the executive level.

Key Qualifications

• You’re a seasoned and tenacious business development leader with 10-12+ years of experience in strategic partnerships, business development, enterprise sales, or corporate development—ideally in fintech, SaaS, or platform technology companies
• You’ve successfully closed complex, multi-stakeholder deals for integrated SaaS or FinTech solutions with high revenue and strategic impact (e.g., >$20M revenue contribution)
• You’re a natural consultative relationship builder trusted by executive stakeholders — able to listen, problem-solve, and shape shared strategy
• You combine commercial creativity with financial rigor, able to build robust economic models that guide decision-making
• You thrive in ambiguous, high-velocity environments and know how to move from concept to contract quickly and with precision
• You’re hands-on and self-directed—equally strong at high-level strategy and ground-level execution.
• You’re deeply curious about financial technology and the systems that power money movement, payments, and embedded finance.
• You’re an excellent communicator and storyteller, capable of articulating nuanced ideas with clarity and purpose.
• You’re fanatical about pipeline hygiene and sales execution rigor—fluent in CRM discipline and sales forecasting best practices, and deeply accountable to yourself and others on execution & follow-through

Pay

Flex takes a market-based approach to pay, ensuring compensation is commensurate with a candidate's experience and our internal leveling guidelines. For candidates located in our Tier 1 markets (NYC/ SF), the on-target earning (OTE) pay range for this role is $336,000 - $420,000 USD.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental, and vision
• Company equity
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Unlimited paid time off + 13 company paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Free Flex subscription