Business Development Lead

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Jupiter (FL); Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Helius, a leading developer platform on the Solana blockchain, seeks an experienced Business Development professional. This role entails optimizing sales strategies, managing client relationships, and collaborating across teams to drive growth. With impressive financial backing and ambitious growth plans, the company offers a dynamic working environment and excellent compensation packages.

Benefits

Competitive salary, commission, and equity package

Flexible work hours and remote-first work environment

Generous vacation and time-off policy

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Wellness and education budget

Opportunities for personal and professional growth

Collaborative and innovative team culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience in business development or sales roles.
• Experience selling to a technical audience.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Optimize and drive sales and partnerships strategy.
• Manage the full sales process from discovery to negotiations.
• Meet quarterly sales revenue targets.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Communication

Collaboration

Job description

About Helius

Helius is a leading developer platform on the Solana blockchain, dedicated to inspiring and accelerating the creation of crypto-powered software. Customers like Coinbase, Jupiter, and Phantom use Helius to power their applications on Solana.

We’ve raised over $34m from Haun Ventures, Founders Fund, Foundation Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Reciprocal Ventures, Chapter One and angel investors including Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal, and Balaji Srinivasan. Our team members have previously built mission-critical, scalable infrastructure at AWS, Coinbase, Stripe, Google, Digital Ocean, and more.

We are looking for an experienced Business Development professional to join our growing team as we enter our next phase of growth after raising our Series B in September and growing revenue 20x in 2024. You’ll work directly with our Chief Revenue Officer in addition to working cross functionally with our Engineering, Developer Relations, and Operations teams to lead our BD function.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimize and drive our sales and partnerships strategy, identify key areas of expansion
• Manage the full sales process, from initial discovery through negotiations with potential clients
• Become a product expert and help customers use Helius effectively; assist prospects through the trial and evaluation phase
• Meet quarterly sales revenue targets
• Outbound to key accounts, verticals, and funds
• Establish strategic partnerships within the Solana ecosystem
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define go-to-market plans for new product launches along with surfacing product or adoption blockers to improve our customer experience
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of work experience in business development or sales roles
• Based in North America
• Experience selling to a technical audience
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to adapt to new technologies quickly
• Comfortable working and adapting in a fast-paced and scrappy environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• High degree of ownership and agency, eager to take charge of projects with undefined process
  
  

Nice to Have:

• 1+ years of prior work experience in crypto
  
  

What We Offer

• Interesting and challenging work
• Competitive salary, commission and equity package
• Flexible work hours and remote-first work environment
• Generous vacation and time-off policy
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Wellness and education budget
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a fast-paced, dynamic industry
• Collaborative and innovative team culture
  
  

Helius is an equal opportunity employer.

Compensation Range: $170K - $250K