Business Development Manager

About Us

We are an early-stage (Pre-Seed completed; Seed funding for scaling sought) Crypto AI startup that aims to monetize scientific research, datasets and other kinds of IP through marketplaces tailored to AI companies that seek to acquire quality data for training. Our platform offers ways to participate in the AI economy without compromising the data, keeping it private (hence PrivateAI). All our co-founders have previously founded and exited crypto startups, including Ambrosus ($250m exit) and our CTO was Team Lead in Fantom ($8B market cap reached).

Requirements for candidate

• Experience in managing multiple business development processes in an early-stage startup environment from start to finish.
• Experience reaching out WITH RESULTS to large number of warm leads, managing people and to be an effective communicator.
• Self-starter and able to work in a dynamic, crazy environment of crypto and AI

Responsibilities

• Find new contacts and close deals with existing contracts to purchase tokens of our project
• Develop a business strategy, go-to-market, pricing and commercial offer of the technology we have built
• Find investors, large paying customers and industrial partners for our partners (also follow up with existing warm contacts via chats and social media - we have thousands of such contacts)
• Investor relations on behalf of partner companies (sister portfolio companies of PrivateAI)
• Manage to sell solutions and products BEFORE they are built!
• Improve and develop the cryptoeconomic model (token economics) of our native token and coordinate with large funds and key stakeholders to develop profitable strategies
• Sell solutions and products BEFORE they are built!
• Seek out valuable partnerships with different Layer1s and DeFi protocols to maximise value
• Manage work and inputs from variety of stakeholders
• Constantly improve our key business assets (deck, white paper, website, 1-pager, proposal deck) giving instructions to our designers
• Able to be mobile and responsive and never say to any task "this is a job for another person"

Qualifications

• 5+ years of REAL experience in tech business development (tech sales, presales marketing, fundraising)
• Mandatory experience in early-stage or growth-stage startups (MINIMUM 3 years in crypto, AI, fintech, gaming, gambling or forex would be great - we do NOT count working in outsourcing companies on these subjects)
• Demonstrated ability to close deals with investors and paying customers
• Intelligent use of auxiliary AI tools like Copilot, GPT, etc for CRM purposes and keeping track of clients
• Strong passion about new technologies, in particular crypto and AI
• Strong communication skills. Perfect English is a must.
• Working/native knowledge of other major global languages is a plus.
• Experience working with a team in a non-corporate environment. We do NOT have various standard corporate processes in place!

Benefits

• A market-competitive remuneration and performance-dependent bonuses and vesting in form of tokens.
• You will benefit also from the personal networks and prestigious memberships of our company, its advisors and the CEO.
• You may also be invited to attend conferences or business events in global hotspots of tech and finance (e.g. Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, Zurich, etc) with expenses paid by our company.