About the company
Bitski is a developer-focused blockchain wallet infrastructure provider that allows creators, brands, and platforms to easily create, sell, and purchase NFTs. The company connects communities, creators, and brands through ownable digital content.
Job Summary
What You'll Do:
Design, negotiate, and close key deals at scale propelling Bitski’s business and global footprint. Collaborate with a broad range of internal stakeholders to help define Bitski’s go-to-market strategy, operational frameworks, revenue goals, and partnership strategy. Analyze markets and synthesize recommendations into actionable channel development and partnerships plans. Demonstrate fluency in the complex legal and business issues in contracts and develop creative win-win solutions with our partners. Roll up your sleeves while building, managing and mentoring the team from the ground up. Stay agile, shape the narrative, and execute across a quickly evolving range of products. Represent Bitski’s seat at the table when engaging with industry leaders, prospective and/or established partners in articulating our value proposition and business principles. What We're Looking For: Minimum of 8 to 10 years experience in leading business development and strategic partnerships in consumer driven spaces not limited to software, gaming, fashion-life> A diverse and deep knowledge bank in developing business models, implementing partnership strategies, including complex bespoke deals and scalable/repeatable initiatives. A creative, poised and structured thinking approach in finding ways to unblock challenging problems. Experience successfully navigating fast-paced, hyper-growth and highly ambiguous environments. Superstar closing ability and knack for inspiring others. Curiosity, exceptional understanding, and intuition with regards to marketplaces and technology ecosystems. Proven ability to recruit, manage, and mentor a high performing team. Polished interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills in engaging with all corporate and executive levels both internally or externally.
Our Vision
The metaverse isn't a single new place – it's a constellation of existing places where we spend our time online. These places will be brought together through an underlying connective tissue. We see NFTs as the atomic unit of this connective tissue.
👨👩👧👦 Team & Culture
At Bitski, we constantly strive to create a team environment that allows members to do the best work of their lives while keeping in perspective that we're all fellow humans just trying to build cool shit. We offer a unique culture that values autonomy, open communication, and creativity. We're a relatively flat organization, so regardless of seniority, any Bitski team member has real potential to impact the trajectory of the company and overall industry.
🪑 Diversity
Inclusion is paramount to our DNA. Everyone has a seat at the table regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences that make up the spice of life. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
🏥 Our Benefits
We offer competitive salary and stock options, plus full benefits (medical, dental, and vision insurance). Regardless of gender, our parental leave policy is available to all employees. We encourage a 10-day minimum vacation policy.
✈ Work from Anywhere (within the USA)
The metaverse knows no physical boundaries. At Bitski, we have a hybrid work environment where everyone works remotely except for the occasional IRL off-site. We trust in our fellow teammates to get things done. Pay levels are not determined by geography either.
Our Investors
We're fortunate to be supported by a brilliant team of investors that support our relentless efforts to evolve the way we interact with digital content.
Andressen Horowitz Kindred Ventures Coinbase Galaxy Digital Vanessa Pappas Ari Emmanuel (Endeavor) Marcy Venture Partners [Jay-Z, Jay Brown (CEO, Roc Nation)] Scott Belsky Andrew Gertler Justin Blau (3LAU) Dylan Field (Figma) Troy Carter (Co-Founder, Q&A) Bobby Goodlatte (Form Capital) Palm Tree Crew (Kygo) Mikey Krieger (Co-Founder, Instagram) Night Media Sabrina Hahn Trevor McFedries (Creator, Miquela) Kevin Carter Kayvon Beykpour (Twitter) John Robinson (100 Thieves) Metapurse Dan Romero (Former VP, Coinbase) Animoca Brands SV Angel
Press
TechCrunch: Bitski raises $19 million from a16z to become the ‘Shopify for NFTs’ Business Insider: Andreessen Horowitz backs a $19 million investment in NFT platform Bitski Complex: Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners Joins $19 Million Funding Round for NFT Platform Bitski Vox: NFTs, the digital bits of anything that sell for millions of dollars, explained