BlockFi is hiring a

Crypto Native Business Development Manager

What is BlockFi?

BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. We build bridges between traditional finance and digital markets that enable growth for all participants.

The Institutional team at BlockFi serves a number of clients from hedge funds, market makers, and proprietary trading firms, as well as foundations, endowments, and miners. Our goal is make crypto accessible to all institutional investors, which often starts with education on the digital asset space.

BlockFi is looking for a Crypto Native Business Development Manager to join our EMEA team!

About the role

As a Business Development Manager, you will build and maintain relationships with all parts of the cryptocurrency and digital asset ecosystem. This is an opportunity to work at one the leading blockchain companies and help build out its broader product offering with new partnerships and insight. The person in this role would also be an ambassador for the brand and franchise, and need to be comfortable presenting to large groups on crypto and digital asset infrastructure and “101” type of discussions.

The person taking on this role should be employed within a crypto-focussed firm and have significant experience in building and maintaining partner relationships, as well as understand the functional infrastructure of digital assets.

Your Mission

• Primary point of contact for institutional partnerships in the crypto native, and to a lesser extent, tradfi space
• Identify relevant companies and foundations to work with and partner with in crypto, also respond to reverse enquiries from interested potential partners
• Identify key stakeholders at partners and develop relationships with those individuals
• Facilitate institutional business with the broader ecosystem through these partnerships

Your Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in a sales or business development role
• 3+ years of experience in a cryptocurrency company
• Understanding of the functional infrastructure of digital assets
• Works in a collaborative way with colleagues, able to gather support cross-functionally for projects and partnerships
• Solid presentation and delivery skills of the company’s values. products and services
• Able to build and maintain relationships with clients, identify needs in the market and come up with solutions for clients to those needs
• Familiarity with the crypto lending industry preferred
• Client obsessed, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Must have ability to multi-task across simultaneous client requests

Your Perks:

We benefit from the great work our employees do each day. That is why we are committed to providing a variety of awesome benefits to help them live their best lives.

• Competitive salarybecause we value your experience and expertise
• Unlimited vacation / sick daysbecause everyone deserves time for R&R
• Employercontribution towards health coverage(including vision & dental) because your physical health and well-being is important to us
• Various fringe benefitssuch as 401k, Parental Leave, FSA/HSA, and Employee Assistance Programs because health coverage is more than just choosing your yearly plan
• Flexible work environmentbecause we are a geographically dispersed team and we believe in balance
• Pet insurancebecause all of your beloved family members should have coverage too
• Weekly lunch stipendbecause there is such a thing as a free lunch!
• A close-knit teamof enthusiastic, collegial and driven people to work alongside in a highly meritocratic environment because teamwork makes the dreamwork

Why BlockFi?

BlockFi has experienced incredible growth since our launch in August 2017. Our client base has grown to more than 225,000 (and counting), and the company now boasts more than $15 billion in assets on our platform. We recently completed a Series D funding round placing the company's valuation at $3 billion, and our team now has more than 500 people worldwide. We have established ourselves as a crypto market leader, and as we expand our product suite and geographic footprint, we expect our addressable market to grow exponentially.

BlockFi's leadership team has decades of experience in the traditional financial services and banking world, and we take a conservative approach to regulation that will position us well for sustainable long-term growth and expansion.

Our team is comprised of highly motivated professionals from diverse backgrounds. We are aiming to become the leading lender in crypto and are poised to redefine the global financial ecosystem for the better. In addition:

• BlockFi is one of the first companies to ever offer crypto-backed loans and the only company whose founding team has an institutional understanding of the debt capital markets and regulatory landscape in the U.S.
• $100 MMof Series A, B, and C funding led by Valar Ventures with participation from Susquehanna, Winklevoss Capital, Fidelity, Galaxy Digital, Akuna Capital, and Morgan Creek
• $350 MMof Series D funding led by Bain Capital Ventures, partners of DST Global, Pomp Investments and Tiger Global
• We are moving quickly and have already deployed substantial capital into the space, proving our ability to execute and capture customer demand

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