Head of Growth and Partnerships

Hiring Company: StartupHR Africa

Our client is looking for a high-level operator who understands growth systems, strategic partnerships, distribution, and revenue expansion.

Your responsibility is to drive aggressive customer acquisition and strategic partnerships for our client.

You will be responsible for building relationships, creating scalable acquisition channels, negotiating partnerships, increasing distribution, and helping both companies grow rapidly across the USA, Canada, Nigeria, and broader African markets.

This is not a passive partnership role. We are looking for someone who can create opportunities, open doors, and drive measurable growth.

Core Responsibilities

- Build strategic partnerships that increase revenue and distribution

- Source and negotiate partnerships with schools, organizations, creators, influencers, communities, institutions, and affiliates

- Develop scalable growth systems and referral ecosystems

- Help expand B2B and agent ecosystem

- Help drive adoption across schools and education stakeholders

- Identify new acquisition channels and growth opportunities

- Work closely with sales, product, and marketing teams

- Track growth metrics, partnership performance, and ROI

- Develop growth playbooks and expansion strategies

- Build strong outbound partnership pipelines

Ideal Candidate

- Strong understanding of partnerships and business development

- Experience building growth systems and acquisition channels

- Strong negotiation and communication skills

- Comfortable working with executives and institutional stakeholders

- Strong understanding of African and diaspora markets

- Highly resourceful and execution-oriented

- Able to think independently and move fast

Environment

This role requires urgency, creativity, and commercial intelligence.

We are building companies designed to scale aggressively, not operate at small-business pace.