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Business Development Manager (Sports/Prediction Markets)

Wintermute · London/ New York/ Remote · Hybrid

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About Wintermute

A leading algorithmic trading firm, focused on harnessing the chaos of digital assets into liquid and efficient markets. Backed by Lightspeed.

About the role

We are looking for someone with an established network across the sports ecosystem and a strong understanding of how to identify, engage and build trusted relationships with sophisticated clients and market participants. At Wintermute, you will play a key role in growing our sports and prediction markets business, leveraging your existing relationships while developing new ones across the market.

What they're looking for

  • An established network of sophisticated market participants, counterparties or commercial relationships within the sports ecosystem, with experience supporting significant transaction activity
  • Strong understanding of the sports ecosystem and the channels, communities and networks where active market participants operate
  • Proven ability to build trusted relationships with sophisticated and commercially significant clients or counterparties and develop those relationships into long-term business opportunities
  • Experience in relationship management, high-touch sales, business development, account management or a similar client-facing role within sports, trading or financial markets
  • Strong commercial judgment, with an understanding of client value, transaction activity and relationship economics
  • Comfortable operating independently and taking ownership of developing a client and counterparty network from an early stage
More about this role

Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity across most major cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, offer a broad range of OTC trading solutions, and support high-profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into digital assets. We are also expanding into prediction markets , applying our trading and liquidity expertise to this rapidly growing space and building infrastructure across new event-driven markets. Wintermute Ventures invests in early-stage DeFi and Web3 projects. Wintermute was founded in 2017 and has successfully navigated multiple industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the technology standards and quantitative rigour of traditional high-frequency trading firms with the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups.

To Wintermute, digital assets - and emerging markets such as prediction markets - are not simply another asset class. We believe in the long-term potential of blockchain and new forms of market infrastructure, and we aim to take a leading role in building innovative, liquid and compliant markets. You can read more here .

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