Institutional Business Development Director

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Job Summary

Job Description

As an Institutional Business Development Director, you will be responsible for generating and closing high-value sales opportunities within Australia, targeting institutional clients. You will develop strategies to build a strong client base, identify new revenue sources, and ensure clients align with OKX’s standards. This includes providing client feedback to senior teams to enhance offerings and drive business growth. Your responsibilities will involve identifying and driving institutional sales opportunities, developing client profiles, evaluating new revenue streams, and closing high-impact deals. You'll also need to ensure prospects or new clients are in good standing and articulate client feedback to the management teams.

Must have:

Demonstrate high tenacity, grit & determination
Experienced sales professional with proven track record
Understands regional territory and build high value sales pipeline
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
Extensive knowledge in institutional client products
Prior crypto sales experience, ideally on another exchange platform

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Job Details

Who We Are

At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual's freedom.

OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves.

Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er.

OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more.

About the Opportunity

We are looking for Institutional Business Development Director to join our APAC team.

In this role, you'll be responsible for generating and closing high-value sales opportunities within Australia, focusing on institutional clients.

You'll develop strategies to build a strong client base, identify new revenue sources, and ensure clients align with OKX’s standards, while also providing client feedback to senior teams to enhance offerings and drive business growth.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Identify and drive institutional sales opportunities in Australia. Build a healthy pipeline through sourcing and converting prospective opportunities from consulting, educating, planning to advisory with institutional clients.
Develop client profiling - identify previous success cases and develop them into viable, replicable efforts to repeat success and where marketing efforts should be channelled.
Define and evaluate new revenue streams and opportunities with existing or new clients.
Close sales opportunities with particular focus on high revenue, high impact value deals.
Ensure prospects or new clients are good standing and will not introduce risk to the OKX business, be it financial reputation, regulatory or others.
Articulate client feedback and gaps in service/product offerings to senior management teams and product related teams with suggested proposals.

What We Look For In You

Demonstrate high tenacity, grit & determination
Experienced sales professional with a proven track record of building prospect pipeline, developing opportunities and closing deals
Understands regional territory and what it takes to build a high value sales pipeline
Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
Extensive knowledge in products that we offer for institutional clients (Block Trading, Derivatives such as Perps/Futures/Options/Margin, Cash OTC)
Prior experience in crypto sales experience, ideally on another exchange platform