Strategic Partnerships Associate

We are an institutional open finance platform serving more than half of all real world asset holders. We bring institutional assets out of closed financial systems into open programmable globally accessible markets.

Our flagship asset management protocol opens institutional assets from leading global asset managers to investors worldwide through compliant non custodial vaults.

We are backed by top tier institutional investors and hold a SEC transfer agent registration alongside a licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

We are hiring a high potential BD Associate or Manager to build top of funnel distribution for our vault products. This is a sell side role. You are not sourcing assets you are distributing them. The job is to find open and advance conversations with platforms sitting on stablecoins that need to earn yield and bring those opportunities to the point where our vaults get plugged in.

You will represent a live product suite to sophisticated counterparties which means enough fluency in the underlying assets private credit fixed income products ETFs and structured credit to credibly field first pass questions and run initial diligence without escalating every conversation. You will work closely with senior leadership with high ownership from day one on an accelerated path toward running deals end to end.

This is the traditional finance flavour of our distribution hiring. It optimises for TradFi nativity and institutional or enterprise sales experience. Crypto or DeFi experience is welcome but not a requirement. We are running a separate crypto native version of this search in parallel.

• Build and manage a pipeline of distribution channels: centralised exchanges (earn programmes yield features) decentralised exchanges and DeFi protocols neobanks and fintech platforms stablecoin issuers and treasuries and any avenue where idle stablecoins need to earn yield.
• Conduct market mapping segmentation and opportunity sizing. Who to target why and in what order.
• Run outreach and relationship building converting cold and warm leads into qualified conversations.
• Drive meeting to deal execution: discovery product walkthroughs and term discussions.
• Field initial diligence questions on the underlying assets covering yield mechanics credit quality fund structures and redemption terms and know when to bring in specialists making those handoffs seamless.
• Prepare and maintain sell side materials such as one pagers data rooms and FAQ docs in partnership with the product and asset teams.
• Help negotiate commercial terms and structure integrations coordinating cross functional workstreams across ops legal and product to get deals from signed to live.

• 2 to 5 years in business development partnerships investment banking sales and trading asset management distribution or a similar client facing finance role.
• Traditional finance nativity. Genuinely fluent in institutional financial products and comfortable with institutional counterparties.
• Institutional or enterprise sales experience. Has sold complex products to sophisticated buyers not transactional SMB volume.
• Working knowledge of fixed income and credit products. Can explain what a CLO ETF or private credit fund actually is and comfortable learning the rest fast.
• Strong pipeline and CRM discipline. Tracks prioritises and follows up relentlessly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Will be the face of the product in first meetings.

• Familiarity with crypto and DeFi including stablecoins yield mechanics and how exchanges and protocols make money. Welcome but explicitly not a requirement for this seat.
• Existing relationships at exchanges neobanks DeFi protocols or stablecoin issuers.
• Experience in sell side distribution or capital introduction.
• Prior exposure to tokenization RWAs or onchain asset management.

• Open to visa sponsorship and relocation for the right candidate.
• Clear progression path: associate then deal owner then partnerships operator.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and live deal flow from week one.
• A product with real traction in the fastest growing category in crypto RWA and tokenized yield.