Business Development Lead (Remote)

Lightning Labs · Remotefull time

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Lightning Business Development Lead at Lightning Labs drives go-to-market strategy and monetization to expand Lightning Network adoption across enterprise and fintech ecosystems. This role leads strategic deals and partners with product and engineering to align roadmap priorities with customer feedback.

Responsibilities

Set and own high-level BD OKRs across target regions, verticals, and segments; work with the BD team to translate company strategy into a quarterly plan with measurable outcomes.
Identify the most promising use cases and companies for Lightning, agentic payments, and stablecoins; prioritize accounts and partners with the highest network growth potential.
Collaborate with product and engineering on roadmap priorities and feature timelines given feedback from external customers and developers.
Monetization and Sales
Design pricing, packaging, and deal structures aligned to product value (e.g., volume-based, tiered, usage-based, partner revenue shares).
Personally lead and close strategic, multi-stakeholder deals with exchanges, AI companies, PSPs, wallets, fintechs, miners, and enterprise adopters.
Stand up a lightweight forecast and pipeline cadence (coverage, stage definitions, velocity, win/loss) in partnership with Finance—without turning the team into a quota-only sales org.
Developer Community and Market Development
Source and prioritize net-new partners and channels; develop joint GTM with key ecosystem players (processors, liquidity providers, compliance vendors, custody, and infra).
Architect distribution flywheels (developer adoption → merchant enablement → payment volume) and unlock high-value corridors.
Connect customers’ business goals with the right technical integrations, integration partners, and liquidity resources.
Executive Communications

Qualification

7–10+ years in business developmentStrong technical and product fluencyAnalyticalDeep network among exchanges

Required

7–10+ years in business development, strategic partnerships, and/or solution-oriented enterprise sales at a fintech, payments, AI, or other relevant tech company.
Demonstrated track record of crafting GTM strategy and closing complex, multi-party commercial agreements.
Strong technical and product fluency: able to translate bitcoin/Lightning concepts (routing, liquidity, settlement, Taproot Assets/stablecoins, agentic payments) into clear commercial outcomes.
Fluency with frontier LLMs and AI tools and willingness to integrate them at every level.
Comfortable leading a small team and operating as a senior individual contributor.
Exceptional written and verbal communication; confident with C-suite, product, legal, and technical stakeholders.
Analytical, data-driven decision-maker; comfortable building ROI/TCO models and deal economics.
Ability to work autonomously across time zones; willing to travel for key customers and events.

Preferred

Public writings or talks on global payments, bitcoin/Lightning, AI, or stablecoins.
Deep network among exchanges, AI companies, PSPs, wallets, fintechs, and payment facilitators—especially in LATAM, Asia, or Sub-Saharan Africa.
Experience launching or scaling developer-led distribution and partner channels.
Familiarity with compliance considerations in crypto/payments and how they affect GTM.

Company

Lightning

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