Unite Digital Holdings · 15 hours ago
Chairman - Global Arbitrage Platform (Profit Share + Equity)
United States
Part-time
Remote
Director/ExecutiveUnite Digital Holdings is seeking a Non-Executive Chairman for their Global Arbitrage Platform, aimed at transforming bottlenecks into profitable outcomes. The role requires extensive experience in executing global cross-industry arbitrage and building organizations capable of delivering significant transaction value.
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Responsibilities
Guide the Founder and Managing Director on:
Which arbitrage structures work in 30–90+ day windows
How control is practically secured (options, rights, priority, enforcement)
Where arbitrage commonly fails
How to preserve speed, margin, and certainty
Help codify repeatable arbitrage playbooks based on lived experience
Define kill-criteria to stop false or slow arbitrage early
Guide the design of the arbitrage organization, including:
Core roles vs. non-essential roles
Seniority mix (no junior-heavy structures)
Decision rights and escalation paths
Deal committee structure and cadence
Ensure the organization is:
Lean
Senior
Fast
Outcome-driven
Prevent organizational drift toward:
Asset management
Bureaucracy
Consensus culture
Fee-based behavior
Guide the design of:
Deal-level participation structures
Outcome-based compensation
Zero-entitlement economics
Ensure incentives reward:
Control secured
Deals closed
Timelines compressed
Prevent equity leakage and misaligned participation
Chair governance across the arbitrage platform
Hold the Founder, CEO, and Deal Leaders accountable to:
Deal quality thresholds
Speed of execution
Capital discipline
Enforce binary accountability:
Outcomes achieved, or initiatives terminated
Ensure decision-making remains senior, decisive, and fast
Act as a senior protector of the Founder’s authority and vision
Step in when politics, hesitation, or external pressure threaten execution
Protect the platform from:
Over-expansion
Premature scaling
Dilution of standards
Ensure long-term institutional value is not compromised for short-term optics
Apply your network only where you understand the arbitrage mechanics firsthand
Support deal flow and credibility through pattern-recognized opportunities—for example:
Helping structure partnerships where buyers pay a premium to secure earlier aircraft delivery by acquiring priority delivery positions from existing OEM allocation holders, rather than waiting years in standard manufacturer queues
Validate whether opportunities are real arbitrage or disguised speculation
Coach senior leaders using:
Pattern recognition
Cross-industry precedent
Firsthand wins and failures
Teach executives to think in terms of:
Bottlenecks vs. assets
Sequencing vs. ownership
Certainty vs. price
Coach without crossing into operational control
Qualification
Required
Executed multiple arbitrage transactions across different industries
Built and led teams or platforms that executed arbitrage repeatedly
Generated or reallocated billions of dollars in cumulative transaction value
Operated in environments where delay destroyed value
Access commanded premiums
Regulation and capital intersected
Seen arbitrage succeed and fail across cycles
Designed organizations—not just closed deals
Guide the founder and team through how this platform will hit the goals set
Tell the Founder how the organization must be structured to support it
Prevent theory, bureaucracy, or operator thinking from replacing proven execution
Ensure the platform is built on real market successes, not guesses
Guide the design of the arbitrage organization, including core roles vs. non-essential roles
Ensure the organization is lean, senior, fast, outcome-driven
Prevent organizational drift toward asset management, bureaucracy, consensus culture, fee-based behavior
Guide the design of deal-level participation structures, outcome-based compensation, zero-entitlement economics
Ensure incentives reward control secured, deals closed, timelines compressed
Chair governance across the arbitrage platform
Hold the Founder, CEO, and Deal Leaders accountable to deal quality thresholds, speed of execution, capital discipline
Enforce binary accountability: outcomes achieved, or initiatives terminated
Act as a senior protector of the Founder's authority and vision
Step in when politics, hesitation, or external pressure threaten execution
Protect the platform from over-expansion, premature scaling, dilution of standards
Apply your network only where you understand the arbitrage mechanics firsthand
Support deal flow and credibility through pattern-recognized opportunities
Coach senior leaders using pattern recognition, cross-industry precedent, firsthand wins and failures
Teach executives to think in terms of bottlenecks vs. assets, sequencing vs. ownership, certainty vs. price
Comfortable killing ideas early
Motivated by building something that accelerates market progression
Post-ego, post-title, post-money
10–15 hours per month in steady state
15+ hours per month during design phases or deal cycles
High-leverage, mentally engaged participation
Benefits
Equity-driven + deal bonuses
Participation in long-term enterprise value creation and exit
Company
Unite Digital Holdings
Unite Digital Holdings is a growing marketing agency ecosystem of wholly owned companies integrating to better serve mid-market clientele and divisions within Fortune 500's.
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase