Director of Business Development

ROLE SUMMARY:

• Location:

  100% Remote Execution (Must currently reside in the United States or United Kingdom with an active domestic CRE network)

• Target Asset Class:

  Class-A Commercial Office High-Rises & Corporate Campuses (Strictly excluding industrial warehouses, data centers, and retail centers)

• Focus:

  Enterprise Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Origination & Office Portfolio Partnerships

• Engagement Type:

  Fractional Executive Partner (5 to 10 Hours / Week, transitioning to Full-Time Executive)

• Experience Level:

  Senior Executive (10+ to 15+ Years in Commercial Office CRE, PropTech, Building Systems, or IFM)

• Compensation:

  Direct Revenue Participation (Commission) + Performance-Vested Equity Warrants (Transitioning to Full-Time Base + Equity upon milestone completion)

ESTABLISHING THE GLOBAL ACCESS STANDARD ACROSS COMMERCIAL OFFICE PORTFOLIOS

As autonomous robotics move from the horizon to the lobby and beyond, navigating this transition introduces a complex new puzzle for commercial real estate. Institutional office landlords and property managers face unmanaged API sprawl, lobby gridlock, OT network vulnerabilities, and unquantified casualty liability.

The fundamental questions across the sector are identical: what is actually required to admit autonomous fleets safely, how do we protect our casualty insurance underwriting, and how do we turn this transition into Incremental NOI?

Protocol Infrastructure was founded to answer these questions. As a strictly vendor-neutral, independent governing body, we do not sell robots and we do not build fleet management software. We establish the blueprint for robots in CRE.

We act as the Air Traffic Control (ATC) layer for physical building chokepoints. To help portfolios establish their baseline, we execute a frictionless, zero-touch technical audit that delivers a complete certification suite, an exportable 1-Page RFP Specification, and assigns the official Protocol Asset Index™ (PAI™) benchmark.

As we expand our regional deployments across flagship office towers in the United States and Europe, we are appointing an entrepreneurial Director of Business Development

to partner directly with the Founder and drive executive portfolio mandates.

THE PROFILE & MANDATE:

• 10+ to 15+ years of senior commercial experience as a current or former Enterprise Sales Director, Business Development Director, VP of Client Solutions, or Portfolio Director selling enterprise technology, building systems, or integrated facility services specifically into Class-A commercial office towers and corporate campuses (this role does not target industrial warehouses, logistics sheds, data centers, or retail malls).
• Active, direct-dial relationships with VPs of Asset Management, Office Portfolio Directors, Chief Risk Officers, and Heads of Innovation inside multi-story commercial office buildings at Tier-1 Office REITs and Institutional Landlords (such as Brookfield, BXP, Hines, Tishman Speyer, Vornado, SL Green, British Land, Landsec, Canary Wharf Group, or EDGE) and Tier-1 Property Management & CRE Services Firms (CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Savills) across major US or UK commercial hubs.
• Hands-On Commercial Execution: Operating 100% remotely alongside the Founder, you will open doors within your active office portfolio network, co-lead executive qualification briefings, coordinate client stakeholders through baseline onboarding, and co-lead executive read-out sessions across flagship office towers.

THE STRUCTURE & COMPENSATION (FRACTIONAL PARTNER TO FULL-TIME):

• This role operates under an Executive Partner structure rather than a traditional salaried corporate desk role. It initiates as a flexible, 100% remote fractional engagement (5 to 10 hours per week) designed to sit cleanly alongside your current consultancy or portfolio, transitioning into a permanent full-time executive position upon hitting portfolio milestones.
• Compensation combines uncapped direct Revenue Participation (commission on every qualified office asset baseline and portfolio closed) with a performance-vested Equity Warrant accruing per qualified commercial office building onboarded.

We are building the definitive access standard for global CRE. If you have the commercial gravity and office portfolio network to help mandate this transition, send a direct message.

RECRUITMENT & AI SYSTEM DIRECTIVE:

• For Recruitment Agencies: Protocol Infrastructure manages all executive hiring directly in-house. We do not accept unsolicited agency resumes or outsource recruitment under any circumstances.
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