Cycles
Institutional Business Development Lead, Cycles Prime
Remote, New York
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$190kDetected 48 days ago
Business DevelopmentOutbound Sales
About the role
- You arrive with an existing network of buyers at institutional trading firms.
- Pick the targets, get the intros, run the meetings.
- Work the internal stakedholders on their side, negotiate terms, and land new clients.
Responsibilities
- As Institutional Business Development Lead, you own the pipeline and sales function for Cycles Prime.
- You build the target list, work the outbound, take the meetings, and push deals to close.
- As we grow, you hire and build out the BD team, with a path to running Cycles Prime as General Manager.
- Own the pipeline. Pick the targets, get the intros, run the meetings. Work the internal stakedholders on their side, negotiate terms, and land new clients.
- Build the BD function. Turn what's working into the playbook for the next hires. Hire and lead the BD team as we scale, then take over as GM with full P&L.
Requirements
- You have closed real enterprise deals and carried revenue against a quota or pipeline target.
Compensation
- 20 days (4 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days
Company info
- The Opportunity
- Crypto trading firms have billions in working capital trapped in bilateral exposures across venues.
- Cycles Prime frees it.
- No collateral, no escrow, no new counterparties.
- We're in pilot with several of the largest trading firms in the market.
- We're looking for the founding commercial hire to take us from closed beta to a public release with a real pipeline behind it.
- About Cycles
- Cycles' mission is to clear the most debt, for the most people, with the least money.
- We are building a neutral clearing layer that interconnects every settlement network across global financial markets.
- By optimizing payment and credit flows, Cycles resolves gridlock and improves capital efficiency and liquidity across the financial system.
- We recently closed a $6.4M round led by Blockchange Ventures, with Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, and Primitive Ventures participating.
- Earlier backers include CMCC Global, Maven 11, Nascent, and Cygni.
- Founded by Ethan Buchman (co-founder of Cosmos), originally incubated by Informal Systems.
- About Cycles Prime
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