Business Development & Partnerships Associate (Crypto)

Location: New York; hybrid workplace.

Company

hirify.global is an algorithmic digital asset trading company providing liquidity across cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, OTC trading solutions, and support for blockchain projects and financial institutions entering crypto.

What you will do

• Grow the OTC business across traditional finance and crypto-native ecosystems through counterparty acquisition, relationship development, solution productization, and trade execution.
• Grow the crypto liquidity provision business by deepening relationships with existing projects and acquiring new ones.
• Develop relationships with crypto projects, crypto VCs, institutional investors, miners, and other participants in the crypto ecosystem.
• Own a set of market, vertical, or product opportunities end-to-end and establish a strategic growth agenda.
• Work with cross-functional teams to build brand awareness in key markets and develop relationships with global exchanges.
• Track crypto ecosystem launches and news to identify cooperation and business development opportunities.

Requirements

• BA and 1–2 years of experience in a high-performing, fast-paced environment such as consulting, banking, or fintech.
• Experience in financial services or capital markets. Experience with crypto markets, trading companies, or hedge funds is advantageous.
• Experience in business development or a client-facing role, including B2B sales, management consulting, investment banking, or sales and trading; readiness to discuss numbers and quota achievement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to be convincing, concise, precise, listen effectively, clarify next steps, and follow up on commitments.
• Comfort navigating legal and commercial aspects of business development.
• Strong product knowledge of OTC derivatives.
• Understanding of and interest in token structures, market making, CEX and DEX liquidity provision, and trading and market liquidity dynamics.

Nice to have

• SIE, Series 7, and Series 63 licenses.

Culture & Benefits

• Accelerated responsibility and ownership growth compared with traditional finance environments.
• Informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, highly professional, collaborative, and entrepreneurial culture with a startup vibe.
• Team events, celebrations, and company-wide team-building events.
• New York City office that hosts industry events.
• Performance-based compensation with significant earning upside and standard benefits including private medical insurance.