Founding Business Development and Partnerships Lead

About Us

The Geopolitics of Business · London (Remote)

The Geopolitics of Business is a podcast, convening and intelligence platform built for: CEOs, investors and the operators rebuilding the global economy in response to geopolitical and technological shifts.

Guests have included José Manuel Barroso (former President of the European Commission), Dame Fiona Murray (Chair of the NATO Innovation Fund), Anthony Scaramucci (founder of SkyBridge Capital), and Sir Nick Clegg (former President of Global Affairs at Meta).

Three years in, the platform (the podcast, a private Salon Series of Chatham House-rule dinners, and an Intelligence research arm) is proven.

The Role

A founding role working directly with founder Sam Gyimah on advertising and partnerships and the connective tissue between Sam, our communications and logistics partner, and the production team.

The role will suits suits two kinds an entrepreneurial person with the commercial instincts to to build commercial relationships spanning the whole platform.

What You'll Do

• Build the advertising and partnership model leveraging existing relationships and working with the founder to forge new relationships.
• Identify and approach institutions that sit naturally alongside our audience taking early conversations to a structured proposal
• Act as the connective tissue between the founder, our communications and logistics partner, and the production team, so commercial commitments get properly scoped and delivered
• Help the founder prioritise across a fast-growing platform: track commitments, chase what's stalled, keep the moving parts organised
• Support delivery of the Salon Series and represent the platform at flagship convenings.

What We're Looking For

• Commercial and entrepreneurial nous and a desire to build something genuinely significant
• Experience building a paying, sponsored, or membership network (ideally events-based), or a genuine entrepreneurial track record
• Comfortable being the connective tissue across multiple workstreams without needing a large team or formal authority
• High trust and high discretion, with genuine comfort in rooms with senior principals, investors, and policymakers
• Organised, detail-oriented, strong written communication
• Genuine interest in geopolitics, markets, and where the two intersect

The Upside

This is a founding role, and the economics are built to match. You'll hold a genuine share of the economic upside you help create, direct participation in the value you build.