Client Relationship Executive — Founder Success & Partnerships

About Taidou

Taidou is a private management consulting firm built around real, measurable results. Taidou Atlas is our startup and private-markets practice: through Taidou Exchange we give founders and small businesses one integrated advisory network to build company infrastructure, connect with vetted service providers, complete readiness work, and reach private-market opportunities and curated investor discovery — with no revenue or size minimums.

Atlas works with four groups at once: founders, investors (venture capital, private equity and family offices), the accelerators and ecosystem partners who support them, and the service providers they rely on. Companies move through the Exchange in stages — intake, build, route and raise — and we hold the line on when a company is genuinely ready to meet an investor.

The Role

The Client Relationship Executive owns Taidou Atlas's most important existing relationships. You make sure every client is getting what they were promised, spot where we can help next, and keep the relationship senior, honest and useful — so first engagements become long-term partnerships. You work hand in hand with the delivery leads and principals, and you are measured on client health, retention and expansion rather than activity.

What You'll Do

• Own a portfolio of client relationships with founders, accelerators and investors, and be their first call at Taidou.
• Run regular account reviews: what we delivered, what it changed, what is next, and where we fell short.
• Identify and shape follow-on work — new Taidou Exchange memberships and Atlas advisory work — with the delivery team, from first conversation to signed scope.
• Build multi-threaded relationships across each client so the partnership never depends on a single contact.
• Keep account plans, contacts, opportunities and notes current in the Taidou CRM, and forecast accurately.
• Bring client feedback back into how we scope, staff and deliver.
• Represent Taidou at client events, industry forums and ecosystem gatherings.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years in account management, client partnership or relationship sales in professional services, consulting, venture or a related field.
• A track record of growing and retaining senior client relationships.
• Excellent written and spoken communication; comfortable with executives.
• Commercially sharp — you can shape a scope, talk price and protect margin.
• Highly organized, with disciplined CRM habits.

Preferred (nice to have, not required)

• Experience in one or more of the industries or client groups this practice serves.
• Existing network among the buyers described above.
• Experience selling outcome-based or advisory work rather than products.

How We Work

• Senior-led delivery — no bench, no handoff between the team that wins the work and the team that runs it.
• Named scope and named exclusions, agreed before work starts.
• Handover after adoption, to named owners, with a follow-up review we schedule ourselves.
• Independence from vendors: no referral fees, reseller margins or commissions.

We know great people don't always check every box. If you're excited about this role and believe you can do the work, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't line up perfectly.

Engagement & Compensation

This role is contract-to-hire. You join Taidou as an independent contractor for an initial onboarding period (typically 90 days), during which we agree your goals together. Once the conversion criteria set out in your offer are met, you convert to a full-time position with benefits.

Compensation is competitive and set according to experience and scope, and includes commission on the business you originate or grow. Full details are confirmed in your offer letter.