Senior Growth Strategy & Partnerships Lead

The Starknet Foundation is the steward of Starknet, a permissionless validity rollup designed to scale the world’s most important blockchains without compromise. Having pioneered ZK-STARK technology to scale Ethereum, we are now entering a new era as the first network to settle simultaneously on both Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Joining the Starknet Foundation now places you at the epicenter of this pivotal phase and offers a rare, ground-floor opportunity to shape how Starknet's core growth verticals evolve: from BTCFi and privacy to quantum resistance and real-world assets. This is a unique chance to build the infrastructure that turns the world's most secure assets and most sensitive use cases into productive, scalable capital for a billion users, and it requires exceptional talent. We're looking for people who think in systems, operate well in ambiguity, and are motivated by long-term impact over short-term wins.

What You’ll Bring

• A Senior generalist with a proven ability to operate cross-functionally across strategy, business development (BD), partnerships, and product development.
• A crypto and DeFi native with minimum 5+ years of experience.
• Ideal background in banking, management consulting, or legal training, with experience at a Tier 1 company within the industry.
• Strong commercial and research skills, including the ability to build clear business cases and financial models.
• A deep crypto network and a track record of building senior relationships with DeFi protocols, liquidity providers (LPs), and financial institutions that generated revenue/growth.

What You Need To Succeed

• A self-starter with high energy, motivation, and ambition.
• Comfortable defining success for a specific vertical, identifying gaps, and reallocating efforts toward the highest-value opportunities.
• Proven ability to influence senior executives and work effectively with stakeholders across the organization.
• Strong deal experience and negotiation skills.

What You’ll Do

• Take ownership of strategy and execution across the Growth team's priority verticals (Privacy, Bitcoin, Quantum, Real-World Assets (RWA)), with the flexibility to shift focus as new opportunities and priorities emerge.
• Identify, negotiate, and manage partnerships end-to-end to extend and strengthen Starknet’s infrastructure stack.
• Develop commercial proposals that drive growth across the Starknet ecosystem.
• Work with product, ecosystem, and marketing teams to identify and build new solutions that drive partner ecosystem success.
• Partner with legal, finance, and operations teams to support existing and upcoming partnerships.
• Represent Starknet at conferences and industry events to enhance visibility and connection to top-tier projects.