Business Development Manager

📋 Description

• Secure value from university partners (e.g., sponsorships for events, volume-based incentives, etc.)
• Deliver value to university partners (e.g., share monthly insights, organize trainings, etc.)
• Drive operational excellence (e.g., escalate challenges from Craydel’s Admissions team, provide
• Enable Product and Marketing (e.g., document unique university value propositions)
• Expand strategically (e.g., identify and sign universities with current or projected demand)

🎯 Requirements

• You have 2+ years of work experience in a fast-paced, high-pressure work environment such as a
• You have excellent communication skills
• You are great at building relationships and thinking on your feet.
• You have no problem making small talk with people you’ve never met before and making a great first
• You are very organized and thrive on creating and updating trackers
• You are curious and love getting and implementing feedback

🎁 Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, high-pressure startup environment
• Opportunity to build strategic university relationships
• Contribute to a mission-driven platform for African students
• Collaborate closely with Product, Marketing, and Admissions teams
• Remote-friendly culture? No, in-person collaboration valued
• Anti-Values: Not a 9-to-5 organization; not remote culture; do not make excuses