Growth Manager (APAC)

As a Growth Manager at the Starknet Foundation, you own strategy and execution across Starknet's priority verticals-Privacy, Bitcoin, Quantum, and Real-World Assets-working at the intersection of commercial negotiation and structuring. You build the financial models and incentive structures that make partnerships work for both sides, from term sheet to close, for a permissionless validity rollup designed to scale Ethereum and Bitcoin simultaneously.

What you'll do

• Take ownership of strategy and execution across the Growth team's priority verticals (Privacy, Bitcoin, Quantum, RWA), with flexibility to shift focus as new opportunities emerge.
• Identify, negotiate, and manage partnerships end-to-end to extend and strengthen Starknet's infrastructure stack.
• Develop commercial proposals and build complex financial models that drive growth across the Starknet ecosystem.
• Structure incentive and economic terms such as token incentive design, revenue share, earn-outs, and vesting/cliff structures.
• 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.

What you bring

• Senior generalist with a proven ability to operate cross-functionally across strategy, business development, partnerships, and product development.
• Demonstrated ability to build complex financial models, structure incentive and economic terms, and negotiate multi-party commercial agreements from term sheet to close.
• Minimum 5+ years of crypto and DeFi experience.
• Background in banking, management consulting, or law, ideally at a tier-one 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, LPs, and financial institutions that generated revenue and growth.
• 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 organisation.

What we offer

• Remote-first work with a globally dispersed team.

About Starknet Foundation

The Starknet Foundation stewards Starknet, a permissionless validity rollup that scales Ethereum through ZK-STARK technology and is now the first network to settle simultaneously on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Foundation is focused on building infrastructure for core growth verticals including BTCFi, privacy, quantum resistance, and real-world assets.