Business Development - Perps ($200k - $1m salary + bonus)

The role

You will onboard high-volume perpetuals traders, whales, and creators to the pump.fun app. You will manage the entire pipeline from initial contact to active trading and provide product feedback to engineering.

What you will do

• Find and win traders who move markets
• Map top traders, KOLs, and whales in the market
• Own the pipeline from first DM to active trading
• Grow the social graph by getting traders to share positions and PnL
• Design referral, ambassador, creator, and partnership structures
• Provide feedback to product and engineering to shape features
• Show up where traders are on X, Telegram, and Discord
• Track traders onboarded, retained activity, volume, and social engagement
• Build the growth playbook

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of experience leading BD at a crypto company or adjacent industry
• A real network in perps including high-volume traders and creators
• Perps-native fluency in leverage, funding rates, liquidations, and open interest
• Ability to structure deals and negotiate incentives
• Relentless follow-up and clean pipeline management
• Clear, confident communication
• Scrappy, high-energy operator mindset

Nice to have

• BD or partnerships experience at a perps venue, exchange or trading platform
• An active perps trader with a following on X or in trading communities
• Experience launching or scaling a referral, affiliate or ambassador programme
• Reach into non-English speaking trading communities, especially Chinese-speaking

Benefits

• Top-of-market base
• Generous bonus structure
• Token participation depending on level
• Relocation support to be confirmed

Before you apply

• For New York-based roles you must have the right to work in New York
• Please tell us in your application whether you will now or in the future require visa sponsorship
• Send your résumé with a short note on the biggest BD win you've driven

About the company

Baton Corporation builds and maintains pump.fun, a consumer crypto product built around token creation, discovery and trading.