Business Development Manager
Job Description
<p><strong>Please note that we will only consider applications submitted through this link:</strong></p><p><strong>https://silkhaus.bamboohr.com/careers/25</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Who are we? </strong></p><p>Silkhaus is a Dubai-headquartered end-to-end technology platform that powers short-term rentals (STRs) for guests, real estate owners, and operators. We have an all-star founding team and leading investors (Nordstar Ventures, Nuwa Capital, Global Founders Capital, VentureSouq, Yuj Ventures, and several high impact family offices and entrepreneurs), with experience in hyper-scaling proptechs and emerging markets technology businesses. In addition to running the largest portfolio of short-term rentals across the emerging markets, we are building the global technology stack for STRs operators and real estate owners to run cutting edge short-term rental businesses. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>What are our values?</strong></p><p>We are a team of technologists, operators, and passionate individuals. We stand for three core values, and are looking to bring on board talented builders who align with our belief system:</p><ul><li><strong>To the moon: </strong>We take bold, ambitious, yet calculated bets. We are disrupting one of the largest asset classes globally, and we seek to exceed our own high expectations in every endeavor we undertake. “Excellent” is our acceptable standard.</li><li><strong>Be an owner: </strong>We are all owners of our company, work environment, and experience. We exist to empower real estate asset owners globally and to make traveling audiences feel like homeowners in their accommodation.</li><li><strong>Freedom of mobility: </strong>We believe that freedom of mobility is a modern human right, and that growth happens as people experience new and foreign contexts. We aspire to remove frictions that prohibit people from being globally mobile, beginning with accommodation experiences.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What is the role?</strong></p><p>We are looking for a self-starting professional to join our business development team. The ideal candidate has the ability to autonomously grow our account management efforts with property owners. The role will provide a competitive compensation package.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p><ul><li>Be the voice of property owners for the company (individual owners and large institutional partners).</li><li>Be the driver behind growing our real estate portfolio of individual asset owners and institutions.</li><li>Activate sourcing new real estate deals by meeting asset owners, real estate developers, asset managers, brokers and large scale owners. </li><li>Track of milestones and workflows.</li><li>Enhance property partner relationships through exceptional communication and engagement skills.</li><li>Manage all new inbound property leads.</li><li>Be a key deal seeker and negotiator with the ability to close new business.</li><li>Exceptional real estate knowledge and negotiation capabilities.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Who You Might Be:</strong></p><ul><li>4+ years in a business development/real estate, preferably within the UAE.</li><li>Strong analytical skills.</li><li>Courage to make decisions with imperfect information.</li><li>Business and commercial minded.</li><li>Hustle mentality and one team one dream spirit.</li><li>Self-starter, flexible and adaptable</li><li>Desire to join a rocket-ship venture-backed startup.</li><li>Ability to maintain composure and objectivity under pressure.</li><li>Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills and negotiating capabilities. </li><li>Great attention to detail and contract knowledge.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What you’ll get</strong></p><ul><li>Competitive compensation package.</li><li>Health insurance plan from a leading provider.</li><li>Remote working for up to 20 days per year from any location.</li><li>Performance evaluations that are based on your behaviors and outcomes, and not on facetime in the office.</li><li>Generous annual leave policy.</li><li>Team events (including family events where significant others and children are welcome).</li><li>International travel opportunities as we expand across the region.</li></ul><p><br></p>
