Cosmos Hub Business Development Lead

Full Time

Canada, USA, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Remote

About the Role

You will play a pivotal role in expanding our reach within the Cosmos ecosystem and beyond. This position requires a dynamic individual with a deep understanding of the crypto, tokenomics, and protocol landscape, capable of bridging technical concepts with strategic business development initiatives. You will be instrumental in profiling and onboarding key partners, crafting compelling narratives alongside our product and marketing teams, and fostering community engagement through insightful research and content creation.

What your primary responsibilities will be:

• Lead initiatives to bring in projects to use the Cosmos Hub’s security and other offerings and grow the ecosystem around the Cosmos Hub.

• Collaborate with product and marketing leads to develop winning narratives around our product roadmap and offerings.

• Research and write engaging content that simplifies complex topics for prospective audiences.

• Engage with ecosystem projects to establish partnerships with users of the Cosmos Hub’s products.

• Share ecosystem insights gained from your business development work, contributing to the team’s understanding of the industry landscape.

• Facilitate community feedback to improve and innovate product features and concepts championed by the Cosmos community and Informal Systems.

• Add to and manage a comprehensive database of leads

What we look for in a successful Business Development Lead:

• Background in finance, economics, or computer science, with a preference for experience in VC, risk management, game theory, DEXes, security/protocol design, or smart contracts.

• Experience in establishing partnerships in blockchain, understanding how to structure win-win deals

• Strong knowledge of the current crypto / tokenomics / protocol landscape and an ability to understand technical concepts and assess their potential outcomes.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills & ability to identify, pursue and close complex partnerships

• Excellent content writing skills with the ability to engage a diverse audience.

• Independent worker with strong team collaboration skills.

Some of our benefits include:

• A unique, caring and friendly culture (learn more about how we work here)

• 25 days (5 weeks) of paid vacation annually, plus 3 Spiritual Days

• Company closure from December 25th to January 1

• Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc)

• A remote-first, flexible work environment

• A home-office stipend to set you up for success

• Annual company retreats

• Paid parental leave

About Informal & the Cosmos Hub

The Cosmos Hub was the first Cosmos blockchain, launched in 2019. It pioneered a whole new generation of blockchains and has been at the forefront of fundamental developments in Proof of Stake, interoperability, liquid staking, restaking, and more. With the launch of Interchain Security in 2023, the Cosmos Hub became a true extensible platform for the developments of novel blockchain applications. With new versions of Interchain Security and several Interchain Liquidity services on the horizon, the Cosmos Hub is poised to become the best place to launch any Cosmos blockchain.

Informal Systems is a core Cosmos contributor. We have led the development of Interchain Security since inception, and became a lead developer for the Cosmos Hub in 2023. In 2024, Informal was elected to its role as lead developer directly by the Hub’s on-chain governance in proposal 839 (along with its partner org Hypha).