--- title: 'Business Development Manager - Sunrise at Wormhole Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/business-development-manager-sunrise-wormhole-labs-remote-aa86ecq4kcxe' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Business Development Manager - Sunrise at Wormhole Labs - **Company:** Wormhole Labs - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-01 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs/4c9cf256-31ce-4cb9-b5a2-8960aa5597f0 ## Job description Wormhole Labs builds Sunrise (sunrise.xyz), a platform that helps token issuers launch and list their tokens on Solana. To date, we've orchestrated the launch of dozens of assets on the Solana blockchain accounting for more than $10 billion in cumulative trading volume. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Source, pitch, negotiate, and close partnerships with asset issuers, Solana ecosystem projects, and broad ecosystem participants to drive Sunrise adoption. - Cultivate and manage strong relationships with blockchain protocols, crypto startups, DAOs, and enterprise clients, driving adoption and integration of our solutions and services. - Partner with product and engineering teams to support launches and align GTM strategies with client needs. - Analyze market trends, customer feedback, and performance metrics to identify growth opportunities and optimize strategies. - Build, manage, and execute a structured sales pipeline to ensure consistent lead generation and successful deal closure. - Work closely with internal teams, including engineering and operations, to deliver seamless client solutions and drive successful outcomes. ## WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU - Experience: 4+ years in business development, sales, or strategy roles within blockchain, crypto, fintech, or SaaS industries. Proven track record closing meaningful partnerships. - Industry Knowledge: Deep understanding of blockchain technologies, protocols, DeFi, and cross-chain solutions. - Analytical Expertise: Strong ability to derive actionable insights from data and apply them to drive strategy and decision-making. - Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas clearly and effectively to diverse audiences. - Proactive Mindset: A self-starter who identifies opportunities, takes initiative, and thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Relationship Builder: Proven ability to cultivate and nurture high-value partnerships. - Flexibility: Comfortable working across time zones and collaborating in a remote-first environment. ## NICE TO HAVES - Experience working with blockchain foundations, DAOs, DeFi companies, and protocols. - Technical knowledge or hands-on experience with blockchain development tools. - Familiarity with analytics platforms like Solscan, Etherscan, Dune Analytics, or similar tools. ## WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING HERE - Competitive compensation packages, including discretionary bonuses. - Flexible, remote-first working arrangements with a distributed team. - A culture that values creativity, innovation, and collaboration. - The opportunity to solve some of the hardest problems in crypto, working alongside an exceptional and highly skilled team. ## About Wormhole Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wormhole Labs develops open-source blockchain interoperability technology to enable seamless communication and asset transfer across multiple blockchain networks. - **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) - **Headquarters**: Remote-first; operates across the United States, Sweden, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Tony Jin (Co-Founder & CTO), Anthony Ramirez (COO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Infrastructure / Cross-Chain Interoperability - **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, decentralized application (dApp) builders, protocols, and enterprises building multichain applications - **Mission**: "To radically reduce the friction of building multichain applications" and create a boundaryless blockchain world where users can ignore the underlying technology or dive deep if they choose. ## Products & Services - **Wormhole Protocol**: The core open-source blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication, asset transfers, and data passing between over 30+ blockchains (including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and others). - **Wormhole Connect**: A frontend SDK and widget that allows developers to integrate cross-chain functionality into their applications with minimal code. - **Wormhole Queries**: A system for syncing data across EVM chains and Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain data retrieval. - **Example Swap Layer**: A reference implementation for a Uniswap-based swap layer integrated with the Wormhole Liquidity Layer. - **Solana World ID Program**: An on-chain template bringing Worldcoin's World ID identity verification to the Solana ecosystem. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — not publicly disclosed; company is believed to be well-capitalized given its roots in Jump Trading/Jump Crypto (founders and many early team members came from Jump) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **AMD** — collaborating on FPGA accelerators to enhance blockchain connectivity - **Jump Trading / Jump Crypto** — key talent source and likely strategic backer - **Uniswap** — via the example swap layer integration - **Worldcoin** — via the Solana World ID integration - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 35.7% YoY (from ~9 to 12 employees) - Monthly headcount growth of 5.6% - Team spans 5 countries with 42% in the US - 63 public repositories on GitHub with active open-source contributions - High LinkedIn engagement on partnership announcements (e.g., AMD collaboration received 380+ reactions) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep expertise**: Team hails from quantitative trading (Jump Trading), venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds — bringing a rare combination of financial rigor and blockchain engineering depth. - **Open-source leadership**: Actively contributes to the core Wormhole protocol and maintains 63 public repos, fostering developer trust and ecosystem adoption. - **Cross-chain ubiquity**: Supports 30+ blockchains, making Wormhole one of the most widely integrated interoperability protocols in the industry. - **Security-first approach**: Emphasizes secure development practices and partners with hardware leaders (AMD) for FPGA-accelerated blockchain connectivity. - **Remote-first culture**: Ability to attract top global talent without geographic constraints. ## Strategic Focus - **Deepening interoperability**: Continuing to expand the number of supported blockchains and improve cross-chain messaging efficiency. - **Developer experience**: Making multichain development as simple as single-chain development through SDKs, widgets, and reference implementations. - **Identity and composability**: Exploring cross-chain identity solutions (e.g., World ID on Solana) and composable liquidity layers. - **Hardware acceleration**: Partnering with AMD to leverage FPGA technology for faster, more secure blockchain connectivity. - **Growing the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Rust, Solana, frontend), product design, and legal functions. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: Team operates fully remote, working US Eastern Time hours, allowing for flexible location arrangements. - **High agency, low ego culture**: The company explicitly seeks "customer obsession, high agency, and extreme ownership" — valuing impact over hierarchy. - **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Employees work on one of the most widely used interoperability protocols in the industry, solving genuinely hard distributed systems problems. - **Diverse, global team**: Colleagues from quantitative trading, venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds across the US, Europe, and Asia. - **Open-source impact**: Contributions are public, visible, and directly used by developers building on 30+ blockchains. - **Growth trajectory**: Small team (~12 people) with rapid growth — offering outsized ownership and impact for early employees. - **Current open roles** (as of mid-2025): Senior Product Engineer, Solana Protocol Engineer, Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer, Creative Director, General Counsel — indicating expansion across engineering, product, and leadership. ## Sources 1. [wormholelabs.xyz](https://www.wormholelabs.xyz/) 2. [LinkedIn - Wormhole Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wormholelabs) 3. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Careers](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz) 4. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz/jobs) 5. [GitHub - Wormhole Labs](https://github.com/wormholelabs-xyz/) 6. 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