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Consultant - Director of Business Development for Digital Assets (Fractional/Contract Role)

New York City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Dec 2025

About the role

Arootah is a rapidly growing advisory and coaching firm specializing in Alternative Investment & Family Office Advisory, Executive & Leadership Coaching, and Talent Acquisition & Development. Founded by Rich Bello, co-founder and COO of Blue Ridge Capital, Arootah leverages deep industry expertise to drive peak performance for executives, teams, and firms across the alternative investments landscape. Join Arootah’s Network of Business Advisors serving Arootah’s clients on a project basis in the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Our mission is to deliver top-tier business advisory services tailored to the multifaceted needs of the alternative investments landscape. As part of the network, you will take on project-based assignments that let you apply your expertise directly to our client initiatives. These consulting roles provide the opportunity to work on varied and impactful projects across the alternative investments industry. Our Services Include: Advising alternative investment managers with front-to-back office services, including but not limited to operations, business development strategy, due diligence, human resources, and compliance Providing fractional expert advisors in key operational areas for emerging and established investment firms Offering executive, life, health, and career coaching for individuals Delivering talent acquisition and leadership development solutions Developing SaaS applications for enterprise and consumer use Visit us at https://arootah.com/advisory/for more information. WHO WE NEED: Arootah is searching for experienced Directors of Business Development, Directors of Marketing and Directors of Fundraising to consult our client base. As a consultant, you will work with our clients to provide expert advice. Having previously served in a senior role as a Director of Business Development or Director of Marketing, you have specific, hands-on experience strategically executing a successful marketing campaign. Whether it is a new manager looking to raise assets for the first time or an existing manager looking to diversifytheir existing investor base, you have the expertise to help our clients define their marketing message and enhance their overall business development efforts.

What You'll Do

Provide advice and guidance to Arootah clients who seek help with their business development needs. This will involve consulting and sharing your experience as an expert in Business Development, or Marketing, helping clients to:
Develop realistic and effective monthly action plans.
Identify internal and contextual roadblocks. 
Break apart goals into actionable steps. 
Devise a plan of action for each goal.
Provide the client with resources associated with implementing their action plan. Implement policies, procedures, and control measures. 
Review, analyze and report on client tools and resources to ensure industry best practices.
Evaluate each client’s advancement toward goal actualization through key performance indicators (KPIs) and scoring matrices. 
Maintain and share detailed and accurate records of consulting results (challenges, breakthroughs, etc.). 
All aspects of the day-to-day management and oversight of marketing efforts, including the development of marketing decks and collateral material, sourcing leads, practing investment pitches, and coaching our clients to meet their business development needs.
Develop an efficient and effective strategy for maximizing the resources of the team to meet marketing objectives, including conducting practice presentations, question/answer sessions, mock interviews, and due diligence preparation.
Help craft the sales narrative around products and organize a communication and marketing plan to attract and retain clients and investors.
Supervise activity of fund marketing staff through the use of regular meetings and the implementation of sales management reporting tools.
Train, mentor, and help educate junior staff so that they may develop into highly effective marketers.
Work closely with internal groups at the firm including senior management, operations, risk management, legal, and compliance to ensure client and regulatory requirements are satisfied and to ensure accuracy of RFP/DDQ responses.
Assist in the cultivating of relationships and bringing awareness to diverse sources of capital, distribution channels and professional relationships.
Review all potential financing, seeding arrangements,