Director, Strategic Partnerships

Job description

Hiive is redefining how private companies and their shareholders access liquidity. Through its institutional-grade platform, Hiive brings together buyers, sellers, and issuers to facilitate secondary transactions in venture-backed, pre-IPO companies, introducing efficiency, transparency, and standardization to an otherwise opaque asset class. Recognized as one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies and backed by leading U.S. investors, Hiive is profitable, well-capitalized, and building a high-performance team to meet growing demand and pursue new market opportunities. Interested in learning more about life at Hiive? Check out our careers page https://www.hiive.com/careers to see how you can grow with us! As Director, Strategic Partnerships, you will own partner-led growth at Hiive, from first conversation to signed, producing partnerships. You will be the first dedicated hire in a function with an active pipeline and direct sponsorship from the CEO, and you will build the team underneath you as the practice scales. In any given week, you might open a conversation with a partner you've prioritized, structure a pitch around Hiive’s unique capabilities, and negotiate terms with a counterparty's leadership, all while managing production across live partners. In this role, your responsibilities would include: - Map and prioritize prospective partners across financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and platforms. - Run proactive outbound and qualify inbound interest, maintaining a disciplined pipeline from first conversation through signature. - Codify Hiive's capabilities into partnership constructs, so that Hiive's value is clear to every prospective partner. - Tailor partnership offerings from the full breadth of Hiive's platform, including sourcing, liquidity, investment products, fund infrastructure, market intelligence, and execution. - Structure proposals and negotiate terms across economics, commitments, and performance conditions. - Own agreements from redlines to signature, engaging business leaders and working in close partnership with cross-functional stakeholders. - Support national account relationships with wirehouses and wealth management firms, from diligence through firm-level agreements and platform placement. - Build the operating infrastructure of the partnership function, including diligence, contracting, onboarding, supply packaging, and flow into Hiive's sales and execution teams, hiring dedicated support as the practice scales. - Grow live partnerships into durable, producing relationships through regular reviews, shared performance visibility, and expansion into new areas of collaboration. Required skills: - 3-6+ years in partnerships, business development, or commercial roles at a fintech, financial infrastructure provider, or financial institution, with deals you personally sourced, negotiated, and signed, and a track record of carrying them with minimal supervision. - Fluency in structuring commercial terms, including economics, commitments, and performance conditions, and in managing redlines with counsel. - Executive presence and precise written communication with senior counterparties. - Comfort operating close to senior leadership in a fast-moving environment. You will regularly interact with the CEO and executive team and be required to move confidently on emerging opportunities. - Ability to build domain knowledge quickly in a complex financial services environment. - Fluency using AI to multiply commercial output, from market mapping and counterparty research to deal analysis and building pipeline systems. Preferred Skills: - Exposure to private markets, alternative investments, or capital markets products. - Experience embedding a financial product into partner platforms. - Familiarity with the wealth management ecosystem: RIAs, advisor platforms, and custodians. - Experience as a first or early partnerships hire who built a function's operating infrastructure. - Experience operating in a regulated environment, with the judgment to know when to engage legal and compliance partners. - FINRA registrations (SIE, Series 7 or 82, Series 63). Compensation, Benefits & Perks: - Highly competitive salary commensurate with experience and contribution. - Opportunity to participate in ownership of a rapidly growing company through our employee stock option plan. - Comprehensive 100% employer-paid health & dental premiums and a Health/Personal Spending Account for Canadian employees. (An employer-subsidized benefits program is available for US-based team members). - If you are based in Vancouver, enjoy a dedicated desk in our Vancouver, BC HQ, in the heart of downtown, with a fridge stocked with healthy snacks and drinks, an onsite gym, and a gorgeous rooftop amenity. - Enjoy a $20-per-day commuter benefit for every day you work in our Vancouver HQ. - An engaging social calendar, including bi-weekly catered lunches, bi-weekly “Friday bar,” team workouts, annual summer party, and holiday party, two “onsite” all-team retreats each year, semi-annual team-building events, and Hiive Women’s Network events. - Significant opportunities for growth into team leadership and management roles. - Entrepreneurial culture and a small and dynamic team. - Sponsorship, immigration, and relocation for exceptional candidates. Hiive is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed. 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