Vice President, Business Development

Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2026 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team? Overview Flex is a growth-stage, NYC headquartered FinTech company that is creating the best rent payment experience. It’s hard to believe that it’s 2025 and paying rent on time is expensive, inflexible, and difficult. We’re here to change that! Flex enables our users to pay rent throughout the month on a schedule that better fits their finances and budget. Our mission is to empower as many renters as possible with flexibility over their most significant recurring expense. After deliberately keeping a stealth profile as we built up unprecedented investor support and an enthusiastic user base, we are looking for motivated individuals to help us keep our mission growing. Will you be a part of the team? About the Role We’re hiring a Vice President of Business Development 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 PL 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. This is an externally-facing leadership position for someone who thrives in consultative, complex sales environments, loves to build from scratch, and excels at working across executive stakeholders to craft and close bold, high-leverage deals. Reporting into the SVP of Business Development Strategic Partnerships, you will work closely with leadership and teams across the company to shape and deliver on Flex’s most important commercial growth initiatives. Responsibilities 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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)