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title: 'Senior Business Development Manager - dreamDEX at Somnia'
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# Senior Business Development Manager - dreamDEX at Somnia

- **Company:** Somnia
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/somnia/c912de9c-bad3-41d6-98cc-94b418d80261

## Job description

About Somnia: SOMNIA is the Agentic Chain - a hyper-performance L1 operating at an order of magnitude faster than existing networks. We empower builders and traders to create real-time, autonomous, and fully decentralized products, powered by agents, that were previously impossible and cannot be built anywhere else. It’s where the future of Web3 protocols will be built, so we’re facilitating a new wave of on-chain applications from DEX to Prediction Protocols and much, much more. Somnia is being developed by Somnia Foundation backed by [Improbable](https://www.improbable.io/), a British tech Unicorn +++ that has been at the forefront of building virtual worlds for over a decade. Somnia received initial funding from [MSquared](https://www.msquared.io/), which raised [$150 million](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220407005101/en/Improbable-Raises-US150m-to-Establish-M%C2%B2-MSquared-a-Metaverse-Network-and-Ecosystem-Powered-by-Its-Morpheus-Technology) from a16z crypto, SoftBank, Mirana Ventures, CMT Digital, and SIG. About the Role: DreamDEX makes a hard claim: CEX execution without DEX custody. A fully on-chain CLOB with sub-10ms, zero trading fees, self-custody and transparent rules, competing head-on with Hyperliquid, Lighter and the large centralised exchanges. An exchange wins or dies on liquidity, and early liquidity comes from relationships. Market makers must sign and quote tight. Builders must route flow to us. Institutions must trust a new venue with size. You will own those relationships. You'll run business development for dreamDEX and carry the wider Somnia story (the L1, Somnia Agents, Prophecy) into institutional conversations. You'll work directly with the GTM leads and core team, with a mandate to source, structure and close the deals that put depth on the book and volume through it. We measure every deal by the liquidity, volume and TVL it produces. Key Responsibilities:

- Own the market maker pipeline: source, pitch, negotiate and onboard MMs, from DeFi-native firms early on to an anchor tier 1 relationship, structuring deals across CLOB rewards, fee arrangements and liquidity commitments
- Get DreamDEX integrated with the major spot and cross-chain aggregators, then manage those relationships so we keep winning flow on price
- Build and activate the institutional pipeline: trading firms, funds, family offices, OTC desks, prime brokers and custodians, with white-glove onboarding for qualified institutions
- Build an active Builder pipeline: Trading terminals, AI strategies and native apps to drive users and volume to the Dex.
- Close liquidity deals that grow TVL: institutional LPs, protocol and DAO treasuries, and vault operators
- Land distribution partnerships that feed the exchange: wallets, perp aggregators and bridges
- Support broader Somnia BD where your network applies: ecosystem projects, stablecoin partners and treasury deals on the L1
- Feed market intelligence back to product: you hear first what MMs and institutions need (RFQ flow, reporting, credit arrangements, API features) and help shape the roadmap
- Represent DreamDEX and Somnia at conferences and in the rooms where these deals get done

Requirements: Must Have

- Business development experience at a crypto exchange (CEX, perp DEX or spot DEX) covering market makers, institutional clients or listings
- A real network across institutions in crypto and/or TradFi: trading firms, market makers, funds, prime brokers and OTC desks. You open doors on day one rather than building a list from scratch
- Closed deals with measurable impact on volume, liquidity or TVL, and the ability to walk us through the numbers
- A working understanding of exchange mechanics: order books, spreads and depth, perps and margin, liquidations, MM economics and incentive design
- Ability to run a full deal cycle alone, from sourcing through structuring and negotiation to post-signature relationship management
- Comfort operating early in a venue's life, when you are selling the roadmap as much as the product

## Nice to Have

- TradFi background in prime brokerage, electronic trading or institutional sales
- Existing relationships with DEX aggregators, wallets, custodians or vault operators
- Experience taking a new venue through cold start; you have solved the empty order book problem before
- Experience structuring token or incentive-based deals
- Working knowledge of DeFi: CLOB DEXs, vaults, stablecoins and yield products
- Experience selling to DAOs and protocol treasuries

Why Join Somnia? Design The Future: Join Somnia to work remotely with a global team, earn competitive compensation with token incentives, and help build the future of Web3 at a company where your impact truly matters. First of its Kind: Make Somnia famous as the only hyperspeed L1 with native AI inference. High Stakes: Influence a brand targeting a $1M+ launch budget in the 2026 peak-fragility market. Incentives: Competitive salary + tokens.

## Role Location

The role is remote, but we are looking for someone based on a UK-friendly timezone (+/- 4 hours). Reporting Lines This role reports to the Founder

## About Somnia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Somnia is building the fastest, most cost-effective EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, capable of processing over 1 million transactions per second, designed for real-time, fully onchain mass-consumer applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded by Improbible and MSquared)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first (team globally distributed; legal entity in the UK)
- **Founded**: 2023 (as a separate blockchain project spun out of Improbable)
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or careers page; the project is led by the Somnia Foundation and supported by Improbable.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Blockchain Infrastructure, Web3, Layer 1 Protocol, AI Agents
- Target customers: Developers building onchain applications (games, social platforms, DeFi, AI-powered dApps, prediction markets); enterprises looking for high-throughput blockchain solutions
- Mission or purpose statement: To provide the foundational infrastructure for the next generation of fully onchain, real-time consumer applications—enabling developers to build at scale without the traditional constraints of blockchain speed and cost.

## Products & Services
- **Somnia Mainnet**: A high-performance EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain live on mainnet, achieving over 1 million TPS with sub-second finality and sub-cent fees. Uses a multi-stream consensus mechanism and IceDB database for predictable gas pricing.
- **Somnia Agents**: A native framework that allows smart contracts to query any API, run deterministic AI models, and scrape websites directly onchain—all consensus-validated. Enables reactive applications where contracts listen and execute automatically on data changes.
- **Developer SDK & Documentation**: Comprehensive tools for deploying smart contracts, connecting to the mainnet, and building reactive applications. Includes a testnet faucet, DevRel support, and a dedicated developer Telegram/Discord community.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Mainnet is live; capable of 1,000,000+ TPS; sub-cent fees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Supported by **Improbable** (the metaverse/gaming infrastructure company) and **MSquared** (Improbable's metaverse network). Improbable is developing key technical components of the blockchain.
- **Growth Signals**: Mainnet launched in 2025; active developer community; hosting an "Agentathon" to drive developer adoption of Somnia Agents; growing ecosystem of applications including hyper-performance DeFi, AI-resolved prediction markets, and real-time consumer targeting.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched Performance**: 1M+ TPS with sub-second finality and sub-cent fees—significantly faster and cheaper than most EVM-compatible chains (e.g., Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche).
- **Reactive Blockchain Architecture**: Native onchain event triggers and smart contract reactivity eliminate the need for offchain oracles for many use cases.
- **Onchain AI Agents**: First-mover advantage in enabling deterministic AI models and API queries directly within smart contracts, opening up new categories like AI-resolved prediction markets and dynamic consumer targeting.
- **Improbable Backing**: Deep technical expertise and resources from Improbable, a leader in large-scale virtual worlds and simulation.

## Strategic Focus
- **Developer Adoption**: Actively onboarding developers through the Agentathon, hackathons, DevRel support, and comprehensive documentation. Focus on lowering the barrier to building reactive, AI-powered onchain applications.
- **Ecosystem Expansion**: Growing the range of consumer applications (games, social, DeFi, prediction markets) to demonstrate the chain's real-time capabilities.
- **Cross-Chain Interoperability**: Building bridges and interoperability solutions to allow liquidity and assets from other chains to flow into the Somnia ecosystem.
- **AI-Native Blockchain**: Positioning itself as the go-to chain for onchain AI agents and automation.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Remote-first, globally distributed team with a flat structure. Emphasis on cutting-edge blockchain engineering and AI integration.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Fully remote workspace; typical time on-site is none.
- **Engineering Focus**: Deep technical challenges at the frontier of blockchain scalability, consensus mechanisms, database design (IceDB), and onchain AI. Ideal for engineers passionate about pushing the limits of EVM performance.
- **Growth Trajectory**: Early-stage but well-funded project with a live mainnet and active developer community. Opportunity to have outsized impact on the architecture and ecosystem.
- **Notable Perks**: Work with the team behind Improbable; direct access to DevRel and core protocol engineers; involvement in cutting-edge AI-agent blockchain applications.

## Sources
1. [somnia.network](https://somnia.network/)
2. [docs.somnia.network](https://docs.somnia.network/)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/somnia)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/somnia)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/somnia)

## Other roles at Somnia

- [Senior Infrastructure Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-infrastructure-engineer-somnia-remote-nbyfmv6m20h3)
- [Product Marketing Manager, DreamDEX](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-dreamdex-somnia-remote-2vf2a694e3de)