Senior Director, Business Development
About the role
Location:KSA or UAE (regionally mobile, with travel focused on international and regional markets to source companies expanding into Saudi Arabia.
Who We Are, AstroLabs, the Gulf's Leading Business Expansion Platform
AstroLabs is the largest business expansion platform in Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf's leading platform for high growth companies expanding into the Saudi and UAE markets. We work alongside government entities and private sector partners to develop key sectors in the Kingdom, offering business setup, co-working, recruitment, and bespoke programs tailored to the industries we serve.
Over the last decade, we've enabled more than 1,500 global ventures to set up and grow in the Gulf, partnering with leading government entities, financial institutions, economic development authorities, and major regional corporations to drive innovation across their sectors. We're the only platform that combines expertise in global venture sourcing, local company formation in partnership with relevant government authorities, coworking and soft-landing support, and bespoke program design, helping international companies integrate into the market end to end.
Our commercial growth depends on more than inbound demand. This role is designed to build and own a new, independent revenue channel that expands and strengthens our overall growth engine.
Who You Are, A Self-Sufficient Revenue Builder
You're a senior business development leader with 15+ years in enterprise sales, partnerships, and business development, most of it in the GCC. You arrive with a credible, self-built network of corporate and partner relationships, and you know how to convert that network into revenue without leaning on an inbound or marketing-generated pipeline.
You're comfortable operating at C-suite and board level as a peer, you've built a pipeline from zero more than once in your career, and you think about relationships as a repeatable business asset, not a personal one.
You have real presence in a room: the kind…