Business Development Associate

Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world. After recently raising $225M in series A funding led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

The Role

We are looking for a Business Development Associate to focus on strategic market development and business opportunity cultivation. You will own the early and middle stages of the business development process, and will be actively involved in the optimization and execution of inbound/outbound lead strategies. Your work will be instrumental to identifying potential opportunities across the industry, and in building and maintaining strong relationships with projects looking to build on the Monad blockchain

This role is critical to Monad’s success as it will be core in building and shaping the landscape of Monad’s future ecosystem across apps and infrastructure. 

The majority of our team is in NYC and works together three days a week. We are open to remote candidates, with a strong preference for candidates based in NYC.

Who you are

• Resourceful and self-motivated
• Team oriented, collaborative, and a good communicator
• Deeply passionate about the crypto and the industry
• Adaptive; can pivot on the fly and make meaningful contributions in a fast-paced environment
• Motivated / thriving when juggling too many tasks
• Entrepreneurial in spirit
• Constantly seeking opportunities for personal self-improvement
• Humility / self-awareness
• Energetic and positive personality
• Deep intellectual curiosity eagerness to build domain knowledge 
• Enjoy wearing many hats

What we are looking for

• Requirements:
• 2+ years of experience in business development or similar GTM role in the web3 industry (preferably at early stage startup) with a demonstrable track record 
• Strong communicator: Excellent communicator both written and verbally and familiar with web3 communication styles (e.g., tg, crypto vernacular, etc.)
• Hero for our partners / project: Ability to quickly assess, identify and effectively speak to potential partner’s pain points / value drivers and how we can help
• Action oriented: You are biased toward action while respecting team-oriented priorities
• Crypto native: meaningful understanding of crypto concepts, technical overviews, culture, and industry segments
• Fundamentally optimized: Superb time management skills and aims to optimize usage of time for both themselves and …