Business Development Manager (Web3)

Location: Remote; candidates should be based within a UK-friendly timezone (+/- 4 hours)

Company

hirify.global is developing a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain for real-time, autonomous, and decentralized Web3 applications, including DreamDEX, hirify.global Agents, and Prophecy.

What you will do

• Own the market-maker pipeline, including sourcing, pitching, negotiating, onboarding, and structuring liquidity agreements.
• Integrate DreamDEX with spot and cross-chain aggregators and manage distribution relationships.
• Build institutional relationships with trading firms, funds, family offices, OTC desks, prime brokers, and custodians.
• Develop builder, liquidity-provider, treasury, wallet, bridge, and perp-aggregator partnerships to increase volume and TVL.
• Represent DreamDEX and hirify.global at conferences and in commercial negotiations.
• Share market intelligence with product teams and help shape features such as RFQ flows, reporting, credit arrangements, and APIs.

Requirements

• Business development experience at a crypto exchange, including a CEX, perp DEX, or spot DEX.
• A strong network among crypto or TradFi institutions, including trading firms, market makers, funds, prime brokers, or OTC desks.
• Demonstrated experience closing deals with measurable impact on volume, liquidity, or TVL.
• Working knowledge of exchange mechanics, including order books, spreads, depth, perps, margin, liquidations, market-maker economics, and incentive design.
• Ability to manage the full deal cycle independently, from sourcing and structuring through negotiation and relationship management.
• Comfort working at an early-stage venue and selling both the product and its roadmap.

Nice to have

• TradFi experience in prime brokerage, electronic trading, or institutional sales.
• Relationships with DEX aggregators, wallets, custodians, or vault operators.
• Experience solving the cold-start liquidity problem for a new venue.
• Experience structuring token or incentive-based deals.
• Knowledge of DeFi, including CLOB DEXs, vaults, stablecoins, yield products, DAOs, and protocol treasuries.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a global team.
• Competitive compensation with token incentives.
• Opportunity to build a hyperspeed Layer 1 and Web3 exchange from an early stage.
• Direct collaboration with GTM leads, the core team, and the Founder.