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Head of BD

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, or sales—ideally in crypto or Web3
  • Experience at a leading crypto exchange (CEX) or tokenized investment platform is strongly preferred
  • Proven track record leading BD teams and delivering against KPIs and revenue goals
  • Fluent in crypto culture, community dynamics, and user motivations

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute GRVT’s global business development strategy—from partnerships to user acquisition
  • Lead and scale a high-performing BD team, setting clear goals, OKRs, and performance metrics
  • Identify and close strategic partnerships across exchanges, projects, funds, ecosystem enablers, and fintechs
  • Design and execute creative BD-led campaigns, regional activations, and community events

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Creative Problem Solving
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Skills
  • Analytical Skills

About the company

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GRVT

Cryptocurrency Exchanges & Trading

GRVT (pronounced “gravity”) is the world’s first regulated DEX that operates as a self-custodial CEX. We aim to enable anyone to buy, sell, trade and invest in financial products, leveraging smart contracts to ensure self-custody, scalability, and security. Traditional finance operates on outdated infrastructure, resulting in high costs and limited accessibility, whereas DeFi grapples with challenges of complexity and scalability. GRVT bridges these gaps and is building a unified global financial system that scales far beyond crypto.

Company details

IndustryCryptocurrency Exchanges & Trading
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

About GRVT

GRVT is the only exchange architected on its own yield-generating, tokenized deposit layer — where every dollar is instantly transformed into a productive, yield-bearing asset. Capital compounds continuously across trading, investing, and spending, without ever leaving self-custody or going idle.

Where traditional exchanges force a tradeoff between yield generation and capital deployment, GRVT eliminates that constraint entirely. Tokenized deposits function simultaneously as margin, yield instruments, and liquidity primitives — compounding across the full lifecycle of capital, from fiat on-ramp to perpetuals trading, institutional vaults, and real-world spending.

Built on a dedicated privacy chain powered by zkSync Prividium, GRVT delivers CEX-grade performance with on-chain settlement — fully self-custodial by design. The company is founded by alumni from Goldman Sachs, Meta, and DBS.

 

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Strategic BD Leadership

  • Define and execute GRVT’s global business development strategy—from partnerships to user acquisition.

  • Lead and scale a high-performing BD team, setting clear goals, OKRs, and performance metrics.

  • Build and own the BD operating system (CRM, outreach tracking, KPI dashboards).

🔹 KOLs, Community & Growth Programs

  • Own and expand a network of KOLs and influencers in crypto-native communities.

  • Design, launch, and optimize KOL incentive programs, referral structures, and ambassador schemes.

  • Manage KOL relationships end-to-end—from recruitment to activation to reporting.

🔹 Partnerships & GTM Strategy

  • Identify and close strategic partnerships across exchanges, projects, funds, ecosystem enablers, and fintechs.

  • Collaborate with marketing, product, and regional teams to align go-to-market and campaign plans.

  • Track, forecast, and report the ROI of BD initiatives and partnerships.

🔹 Event & Program Innovation

  • Design and execute creative BD-led campaigns, regional activations, and community events.

  • Leverage storytelling and conversions to showcase BD impact—turning ideas into scalable, repeatable growth loops.

  • Bring structured experimentation to program design and incentive planning.

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • 8+ years of experience in business development, partnerships, or sales—ideally in crypto or Web3.

  • Experience at a leading crypto exchange (CEX) or tokenized investment platform is strongly preferred.

  • Proven track record leading BD teams and delivering against KPIs and revenue goals.

  • Deep KOL network and relationships across Telegram, Twitter, Discord, and regional communities.

  • Excellent with metrics, forecasts, ROI modeling, and goal tracking.

  • Creative mindset—able to ideate and execute programs that break through the noise and deliver results.

  • Comfortable owning partnership strategy, events, and regional execution simultaneously.

  • Strong leadership, organizational, and project management skills.

  • Fluent in crypto culture, community dynamics, and user motivations.

Why Join GRVT?

  • Lead BD at one of the fastest-scaling, regulated hybrid exchanges in the world.

  • Be part of redefining how the world accesses investments—on-chain, peer-powered, and borderless.

  • Build from zero-to-one with a team that values speed, clarity, ownership, and ambition.

  • Work directly with the CEO and executive team to shape the next phase of GRVT’s growth.

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