[Hiring] Director, Business Development @Sagana

Role Description

We are seeking a Director of Business Development to support the growth of Sagana’s advisory business by inspiring families and foundations to become our clients and fulfill their vision. This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in unlocking and deploying purpose-driven capital alongside some of the world’s most forward-thinking families, foundations, and institutions. You will drive new business development, build trust with UHNWIs and family offices, foundation trustees, and help shape the future of impact investing at a global scale.

We’re not looking for someone to sit behind a desk crafting strategies — we need a mover, a connector, someone who gets energy from being out in the world meeting people, telling our story, and making things happen. The ideal candidate is a natural relationship-builder with the credibility to engage sophisticated investors around bold, values-driven action. You thrive in innovative, entrepreneurial environments and know how to turn conversations into action.

We are actively creating a workplace where authentic communication, collaboration, and inclusion enable people to become their best selves both personally and professionally while having a career with purpose and impact.

Responsibilities

• Prospect and Client Engagement: Build and manage trusted relationships with UHNWIs, family offices, foundation trustees, and other catalytic capital providers aligned with Sagana’s mission.
• Lead qualification: Own the pipeline of prospects and qualify most promising leads for the senior team.
• Business Development Strategy: Contribute to Business Development strategies including geographic focus, priority wealth networks, and opportunities through analysis and recommendations of current efforts.
• Positioning & Communications: Craft compelling and consistent narratives that bring Sagana’s differentiated offering to life. Generate curiosity and excitement in BD prospects.
• Events & Representation: Represent Sagana at relevant global convenings, summits, and ecosystem gatherings to build meaningful relationships and amplify reach.
• CRM & Reporting: Maintain consistent CRM discipline, capture meeting notes for BD team, track key engagement KPIs.
• Team coordination and project management: Turn strategy into action — align the BD team, assign clear ownership, and ensure follow-through on every commitment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience, including business development, fundraising, investor relations, or strategic partnerships – preferably in impact investing, venture capital, philanthropy, or blended finance.
• Existing network of UHNWIs and family offices. A demonstrated ability of attracting, engaging, and retaining UHNWIs and family offices as clients. An existing book of business is beneficial.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into compelling narratives.
• Skilled at deep listening to understand what truly drives each client, then partnering with the capital team to design strategies that bring their vision to life.
• Experience cultivating high-trust relationships with diverse global stakeholders across finance, philanthropy, and social enterprise sectors.
• Deep alignment with Sagana’s thematic focus areas and a passion or commitment for mobilizing capital toward climate and social equity outcomes.
• Experience with CRM tools (e.g., Affinity, HubSpot), pipeline management, and reporting dashboards.
• Effective collaboration across multicultural, distributed teams and time zones.
• Fluency in English; Fluency in German is beneficial.

Values

• Courage - Is what empowers us to think differently, ask difficult questions, speak our minds, act on what we believe in and find opportunities that others don’t always see.
• Authenticity - Is what guides us to bring our whole selves to our endeavors and not hide behind a mask. It brings out our honesty, creativity and enthusiasm that allows us to use our full potential in delivering our work.
• Respect - Is the foundation of all relationships – with ourselves, our clients and partners, our colleagues, our communities and our planet.
• Responsibility - Is what we take for the world in which we live. We hold ourselves accountable for the decisions we make and the actions we take as individuals and as a company every day.
• Excellence - We are committed to being our best. Because creating a better future takes more than good intentions.

Apply

To be considered for this career opportunity, please submit your CV via the apply now link. Any queries to Wendy Foster, [email protected].