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title: 'Growth Lead (Asia) at N1'
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# Growth Lead (Asia) at N1

- **Company:** N1
- **Location:** Hong Kong
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/n1/9bb216e7-4aca-4690-908c-ab00c6cf5a2b

## Job description

About N1: N1 is the first hyper-performant and horizontally scalable blockchain network designed to enable trustless computing at internet scale. N1 is comprised of a team spanning backgrounds from Harvard, CMU, DFINITY, VMWare, Galaxy Digital, and more, and is backed by top-tier institutions like Founders Fund, Kraken Ventures, SALT, Amber Group, and more.

Position Overview: Join N1 as our Asia Growth Lead where you'll play a vital role in leading our growth initiatives in the APAC region. As part of the Growth team, you'll work closely with our executives and team members to expand Layer N's ecosystem of developers, users, and institutional partners. Your responsibilities will span from identifying and cultivating strong partnerships to constructing efficient growth pipelines and funnels. Moreover, you'll leverage your analytical skills to conduct market research, monitor industry trends, and analyze competitor strategies, all aimed at uncovering new growth opportunities.

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in growth, business development, sales, finance, or venture capital, preferably in the blockchain or financial technology industry
- Based in either Hong Kong or Singapore
- Strong understanding of blockchain systems, and financial systems
- Experience building and scaling growth teams
- Experience structuring complex high-value partnerships involving multiple stakeholders in an authentic and responsible manner
- Excellent research and analytical skills, with the ability to gather and interpret data from multiple sources
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Native / fluent proficiency in one or more of Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, or other commonly spoken languages across APAC regions

## About N1

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: N1 is building a hyper-performant layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for onchain finance, delivering ultra-high throughput, sub-millisecond latency, and congestion-free transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Dima Romanov (Co-Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Blockchain infrastructure (Layer 1) for financial applications
- **Target customers**: Developers and traders building or using decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, including DEXs, perpetuals exchanges, lending platforms, and prediction markets
- **Mission**: To build the rails for all onchain finance — all assets, all markets, one chain.

## Products & Services
- **[N1 Blockchain](https://www.n1.xyz/)**: A purpose-built layer 1 blockchain that achieves horizontal scalability through sharded data availability, isolated app execution environments, and asynchronous transactions by default. It offers native Solana bridging for liquidity and is virtual machine agnostic (supports Rust, TypeScript, and any verifiable execution environment).
- **[TradeRush](https://www.n1.xyz/)**: A perpetuals futures exchange running on N1, offering lightning-fast execution and advanced structured trading products.
- **[01 Exchange](https://www.n1.xyz/)**: A professional-grade trading terminal that aggregates all onchain markets in one interface, enabling traders to discover and execute edge across any asset.
- **[Atomic Transactions](https://www.n1.xyz/)**: A novel feature that bundles multiple actions (e.g., order placement, hedge adjustment, liquidity provision) into a single atomic instruction set, executed as one step with built-in risk checks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $1.0M (LinkedIn estimate) | Total Funding $5.0M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Seed round led by **dao5** and **Founders Fund** (September 2023) with 9 investors including Syncretic Capital
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 41.7% year-over-year to 14 employees
  - Network live on Proton (first implementation); testnet in phased rollout
  - Active development of Solana bridge and integration with Jito (Re)staking for validator set expansion
  - Team distributed across 5 countries (US, Portugal, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Horizontal scalability**: Each app runs in its own isolated environment, eliminating state congestion and gas wars; performance scales with validator count.
- **Sub‑ms latency & 100K+ TPS**: Designed to rival centralized trading systems while remaining fully decentralized.
- **Native liquidity bridge**: Direct Solana bridge for seamless asset and transaction flow.
- **VM agnosticism**: Developers can use any execution environment (SNARKs, consensus proofs, etc.) as long as verification is defined.

## Strategic Focus
- **Phase‑by‑phase decentralization**: Starting with a curated operator (Proton) and progressively increasing independent parties securing the network through staking and proof verification.
- **Ecosystem growth**: Attracting developers to build DeFi applications (DEXs, yield vaults, lending, memecoins, RWAs) and expanding the app suite (TradeRush, 01 Exchange, Atomics).
- **Infrastructure integration**: Plugging into Jito (Re)staking for slashable security and moving data availability fully onto the N1 validator set.

## Why Work Here
- **Cutting‑edge tech**: Contribute to a novel L1 blockchain that rethinks consensus and execution for finance at internet scale.
- **Small, high‑growth team**: 14 people with a 40%+ headcount growth rate — a chance for high impact ownership.
- **Global & remote‑friendly**: Team spans 5 countries (US, Portugal, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia) with a technical majority (53% engineering).
- **Founder‑led**: Co‑founder Dima Romanov (CEO) actively drives the vision; culture emphasizes building fast and shipping.
- **Careers page active**: Hiring across multiple roles via [jobs.ashbyhq.com/n1](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/n1) — recent focus on engineering, design, and operations.

## Sources
1. [n1.xyz](https://www.n1.xyz/) – Official website and product descriptions
2. [LinkedIn – N1xyz](https://www.linkedin.com/company/n1xyz) – Company details, headcount, financials, funding, founders
3. [docs.n1.xyz – Introduction to N1](https://docs.n1.xyz/learn/introduction-to-n1) – Technical architecture, horizontal scalability, roadmap
4. [GitHub – n1xyz](https://github.com/n1xyz) – Development philosophy and code repositories
5. [N1 Careers – Ashby](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/n1) – Open positions and hiring page

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