Lightning

Business Development Lead (Remote)

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “Lightning Labs”
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About this role

Lightning is hiring for a Business Development Lead (Remote) role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 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.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.