About this Business Development Manager (Sports/Prediction Markets) role at Wintermute Trading
About Wintermute
Wintermute is one of the largest crypto-native algorithmic trading companies in digital assets. We provide liquidity across most major cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, offer a broad range of OTC trading solutions, and support high-profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into digital assets. We are also expanding into prediction markets, applying our trading and liquidity expertise to this rapidly growing space and building infrastructure across new event-driven markets. Wintermute Ventures invests in early-stage DeFi and Web3 projects. Wintermute was founded in 2017 and has successfully navigated multiple industry cycles. Culturally, we combine the technology standards and quantitative rigour of traditional high-frequency trading firms with the innovative and entrepreneurial culture of technology startups.
To Wintermute, digital assets - and emerging markets such as prediction markets - are not simply another asset class. We believe in the long-term potential of blockchain and new forms of market infrastructure, and we aim to take a leading role in building innovative, liquid and compliant markets. You can read more here.
Working at Wintermute
We are looking for someone with an established network across the sports ecosystem and a strong understanding of how to identify, engage and build trusted relationships with sophisticated clients and market participants. At Wintermute, you will play a key role in growing our sports and prediction markets business, leveraging your existing relationships while developing new ones across the market. You should be well connected within the sports ecosystem, understand the needs and decision-making processes of sophisticated counterparties, and be able to develop relationships into long-term commercial partnerships.
You will have significant ownership and responsibility from day one, with the opportunity to directly influence how we build and grow this part of the business.
Responsibilities
Hard Skills Requirements
Our Culture & How You’ll Thrive
You have an ownership mentality and stay focused on the ultimate outcome: contributing directly or indirectly to sustainable P&L and helping grow the business over the long term.
You enjoy solving complex problems and seeing your work translate into meaningful business impact.
You are adaptable and comfortable working across different priorities, projects and teams depending on what the situation requires.
You are ambitious, determined and humble, with a strong willingness to learn and continuously improve.
You thrive in a meritocratic environment where performance, impact and contribution matter.
You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are comfortable with the pace and demands of a fast-moving global business.
You enjoy collaborating across teams and functions to achieve shared goals.
You are comfortable working primarily from the office, or remotely where the role requires, while maintaining flexibility where appropriate.
Why Join Wintermute
The opportunity to work at one of the world’s leading algorithmic trading firms.
High-impact work with significant ownership, responsibility and the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution from an early stage.
A collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that is informal, non-hierarchical and ambitious, while maintaining high professional standards.
A strong team environment with regular social and company-wide activities.
Office hubs in London, New York and Singapore, where we encourage teams to work together in person to support collaboration and fast decision-making. Remote roles are not common and, where available, are typically indicated in the relevant job description.
Performance-based compensation with significant earning potential, alongside a competitive benefits package
