Vice President, Customer Development

Future Cities Development, Inc.

$150K — $200K *
Real Estate & Construction
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in customer development across industries
  • Sales experience, preferably in real estate or similar fields
  • Strong understanding of entrepreneurial thinking and customer perspectives
  • Background in real estate development or related fields
  • Familiarity with target industries like tourism, light manufacturing, and medical research

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with partners to define FCD's unique value proposition
  • Oversee external consultants for market research enhancement
  • Conduct independent research to uncover business opportunities
  • Engage with real estate developers to foster interest and understand their needs
  • Create compelling documentation of FCD's value for potential tenants
  • Leverage customer insights to inform product development decisions
  • Achieve non-binding Letters of Intent exceeding $100M and convert 25% into binding deals

Benefits

  • Full-time position with flexible location options
  • Opportunity to work within a passionate team dedicated to a significant mission
  • Access to a diverse and global network of professionals
  • Engagement in innovative development projects with high growth potential
  • Chance to make a tangible impact on regional economic development
Full Job Description
Purpose:
• Identify prospective tenants (target industries, companies, or developers) which will be interested in locating in the city.
• Build relationships with prospective tenants to supply data that informs our own development efforts.
• Close deals with tenants that provide the investment and backing to get the charter city off the ground.

Responsibilities:
• Work with partners & staff to understand FCD's unique value offering.
• Manage external consulting firms doing work to supplement market research.
• Do independent research to identify business opportunities & identify target markets.
• Talk to real estate developers and potential tenants to get them excited about this opportunity, learn their requirements, establish and maintain relationships.
• Document FCD's value offering in a way that is compelling to prospective tenants.
• Use the information gathered via relationships with potential customers to inform product development - site selection, lease & rules design, etc.
• Secure high-quality, non-binding LOIs ($100M+ over the next several months), with the expectation that 25% or more will turn into actual developments.
• Close initial customers to binding development deals.

Experience:
We are looking for a candidate with experience in:
• Customer Development (any field).
• Sales (real estate ideal, but any field OK).
• Entrepreneurship (understands how potential customers think).
• Real estate development
• Some potential target industries for our city (tourism, light manufacturing, medical research & tourism, etc.)

It's also very important that all of our team members are deeply passionate about our mission - many of us have been thinking and working in this area for 10+ years and have incredible enthusiasm.

This is a full-time position. We prefer this individual be in San Francisco, CA (the site of our largest office), but our team is based around the world, and this position may be based anywhere

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