Strategic Partnerships Associate

TechChain Talent; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation assistance

Job summary

TechChain Talent is seeking a high-potential BD Associate/Manager to build top-of-funnel distribution for our vault products. You will represent a live product suite to sophisticated counterparties, focusing on platforms with stablecoins that need to earn yield.

You will work with senior leadership from day one, running deals end-to-end in a traditional finance distribution context. Crypto experience is welcome but not required.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in business development, partnerships, investment banking, sales & trading, asset management distribution, or similar client-facing finance role.
• Traditional finance nativity with comfort in institutional products and counterparties.
• Institutional or enterprise sales experience with complex products.
• Knowledge of fixed income and credit products; ability to explain CLO ETF or private credit fund concepts.
• Strong pipeline and CRM discipline; proactive in follow-up and prioritisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; will be the face of product in early meetings.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a pipeline of distribution channels (exchanges, DeFi protocols, neobanks, stablecoin issuers).
• Conduct market mapping, segmentation, and opportunity sizing; determine target sequence.
• Run outreach and relationship-building; convert leads into conversations.
• Drive meetings to deal execution: discovery, product walkthroughs, and term discussions.
• Field initial diligence questions on underlying assets; know when to bring in specialists.
• Prepare and maintain sell-side materials (one-pagers, data rooms, FAQs) with product and asset teams.
• Help negotiate commercial terms and coordinate cross-functional workstreams from signed to live.

Skills

Business development

Partnerships

Investment banking

Sales and trading

Asset management distribution

CRM discipline

Tools

CRM software

Market research tools

Job description

About the Company

We are an institutional open finance platform, serving more than half of all real world asset holders. We bring institutional assets out of closed financial systems into open, programmable, globally accessible markets.

Our flagship asset management protocol opens institutional assets from leading global asset managers to investors worldwide through compliant, non custodial vaults.

We are backed by top tier institutional investors, and hold a SEC transfer agent registration alongside a licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority.

About the Role

We are hiring a high potential BD Associate or Manager to build top of funnel distribution for our vault products. This is a sell side role. You are not sourcing assets, you are distributing them. The job is to find, open, and advance conversations with platforms sitting on stablecoins that need to earn yield, and bring those opportunities to the point where our vaults get plugged in.

You will represent a live product suite to sophisticated counterparties, which means enough fluency in the underlying assets, private credit, fixed income products, ETFs, and structured credit, to credibly field first pass questions and run initial diligence without escalating every conversation. You will work closely with senior leadership with high ownership from day one, on an accelerated path toward running deals end to end.

This is the traditional finance flavour of our distribution hiring. It optimises for TradFi nativity and institutional or enterprise sales experience. Crypto or DeFi experience is welcome but not a requirement. We are running a separate, crypto native version of this search in parallel.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage a pipeline of distribution channels: centralised exchanges (earn programmes, yield features), decentralised exchanges and DeFi protocols, neobanks and fintech platforms, stablecoin issuers and treasuries, and any avenue where idle stablecoins need to earn yield.
• Conduct market mapping, segmentation, and opportunity sizing. Who to target, why, and in what order.
• Run outreach and relationship building, converting cold and warm leads into qualified conversations.
• Drive meeting to deal execution: discovery, product walkthroughs, and term discussions.
• Field initial diligence questions on the underlying assets, covering yield mechanics, credit quality, fund structures, and redemption terms, and know when to bring in specialists, making those handoffs seamless.
• Prepare and maintain sell side materials such as one pagers, data rooms, and FAQ docs, in partnership with the product and asset teams.
• Help negotiate commercial terms and structure integrations, coordinating cross functional workstreams across ops, legal, and product to get deals from signed to live.

Requirements

• 2 to 5 years in business development, partnerships, investment banking, sales and trading, asset management distribution, or a similar client facing finance role.
• Traditional finance nativity. Genuinely fluent in institutional financial products and comfortable with institutional counterparties.
• Institutional or enterprise sales experience. Has sold complex products to sophisticated buyers, not transactional SMB volume.
• Working knowledge of fixed income and credit products. Can explain what a CLO ETF or private credit fund actually is, and comfortable learning the rest fast.
• Strong pipeline and CRM discipline. Tracks, prioritises, and follows up relentlessly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Will be the face of the product in first meetings.

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with crypto and DeFi, including stablecoins, yield mechanics, and how exchanges and protocols make money. Welcome, but explicitly not a requirement for this seat.
• Existing relationships at exchanges, neobanks, DeFi protocols, or stablecoin issuers.
• Experience in sell side distribution or capital introduction.
• Prior exposure to tokenization, RWAs, or onchain asset management.

Benefits and Other

• Open to visa sponsorship and relocation for the right candidate.
• Clear progression path: associate, then deal owner, then partnerships operator.
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and live deal flow from week one.A product with real traction in the fastest growing category in crypto, RWA and tokenized yield.