Business Development Manager
PrivateAI is an AI-powered data governance and knowledge-graph platform focused on securely processing, analyzing, validating, and monetizing research and other data assets. It serves researchers, data analytics and GenAI companies, healthcare organizations, enterprises, and data contributors.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About PrivateAI
PrivateAI develops a privacy-focused AI platform that converts unstructured data into datasets and knowledge graphs for search, visualization, analysis, and discovery of hidden relationships. Its ecosystem includes a data marketplace, peer-to-peer research collaboration, crowdsourced data contribution, encrypted data handling, AI analytics, and PGPT token-based payments and rewards. The organization offers free, premium, and enterprise plans for individuals, research labs, commercial data and AI companies, healthcare organizations, and larger businesses.
Skills
About the Role
Manage multiple business development processes in an early-stage crypto AI startup, including token sales, investor relations, commercial strategy, partnerships, tokenomics, and stakeholder coordination.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in tech business development, including tech sales, presales marketing, or fundraising
- At least 3 years of experience in relevant early-stage or growth-stage startups
- Demonstrated ability to close deals with investors and paying customers
- Intelligent use of AI tools such as Copilot and GPT for CRM
- Strong passion for crypto, AI, and new technologies
- Strong communication skills and perfect English
- Experience working in a non-corporate team environment
- Self-starter comfortable with chaotic, unpredictable, and unconventional work
Responsibilities
- Find new contacts and close deals to purchase project tokens
- Develop business strategy, go-to-market plans, pricing, and commercial offers
- Find investors, paying customers, and industrial partners
- Follow up with warm contacts through chats and social media
- Manage investor relations for partner companies
- Sell solutions and products before they are built
- Improve the cryptoeconomic model of the native token
- Coordinate with funds and key stakeholders on profitable strategies
- Build partnerships with Layer1s and DeFi protocols
- Manage inputs from multiple stakeholders
- Improve decks, white papers, websites, and proposals
Benefits
- Market-competitive remuneration and performance-dependent bonuses
- Token vesting
- Access to company, advisor, and CEO networks and memberships
- Paid invitations to conferences and business events in global technology and finance hubs
