Events Marketing Manager

About Wintermute

Wintermute is one of the largest liquidity providers in digital assets globally. We manage billions in assets and trade more than $5B+/day across dozens of different trading platforms. Wintermute provides liquidity algorithmically across most exchanges and its own OTC products. We support all major centralized and decentralized exchanges and trading platforms, AMMs, RFQs, aggregators and we work with most major chains.

Wintermute’s customer-facing business includes various OTC products such as electronic trading API and single-dealer platform for a wide range of counterparties from crypto native whales to large traditional finance institutions. Wintermute is also providing market making services for blockchain projects where we supported most of the world’s largest and most prominent launches. In addition to providing the best in class liquidity products, Wintermute is one of the earliest and most active supporters of DeFi. We invest in and help scale early stage DeFi projects, we actively participate in governance of various protocols and cooperate with projects of building the missing pieces of the ecosystem.

Wintermute is a hyper-growth highly profitable business with a very ambitious vision and roadmap. We are backed by Lightspeed, Pantera Capital, Sino Global Capital, Blockchain.com Ventures, Avon Ventures by Fidelity Investments, DeFi Alliance and other top tier investors. We are run as a technology company, not a financial service provider, and we build our culture around core values of ambition, collaboration, entrepreneurship, transparency and meritocracy.

Events Marketing at Wintermute

Events marketing will be a new marketing role in the COO office of Wintermute tasked with an ambitious goal to dramatically increase Wintermute’s visibility on conferences and events globally. You will be designing Wintermute’s events strategy, working closely with business development, product management, marketing and the COO. You will own the events planning and execution of that plan including all its operational and logistical aspects. Expect to be very practical and hands-on! It is an incredibly unique opportunity to leverage our leading market position in the industry and reputation and bring Wintermute’s visibility to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Events strategy and planning: research and keep track of all important events, design events strategy and operational plan
• Execution of events plan: own the execution of all events related activities, including work with internal contributors and outside agencies and vendors
• Stakeholder management: establish effective relationships with internal teams and external partners such as industry partners, venues and events organizers
• Event PR: work with event organizers to help the team get speaker spots at selected events, as well as assess and leverage sponsorship opportunities
• Reporting & analytics: build fact-base to identify the best events and assess the results of all activities; make sure events leads are in CRM and acted upon
• Ad hoc strategic and operational projects: can range from creating a strategy for a specific region (e.g. Asia) and deep diving into one specific mega event, to some smaller projects

Hard Skills Requirements

• At least 2-5 years experience as an events, marketing, PR or sponsorships manager at a relevant company, e.g. a technology startup or a dynamic financial services company
• Experience and knowledge of crypto-specific events (Consensus, Bitcoin Miami, Token2029, etc) is not required but would be a strong advantage
• Track record of managing successful events from start to finish
• Experience with B2B events marketing management in high-value deal/ACV environment is preferred; experience with finance, fintech or crypto is an advantage but not a requirement
• Ability to learn about crypto, financial products and technologies quickly and independently
• Strong interest in crypto and wider community and ability and willingness to keep up to date on global crypto events and understand their relevance to our business

Other Requirements

• Have an owner mentality: you focus on the ultimate result for the company (short and long-term growth)
• Able to understand the bigger picture and be very hands-on and practical;
• Flexibility to find the right approaches for each product, company, situation, not only copy paste what was seen before
• Fact-based approach to marketing
• Determined, ambitious yet humble, willing to work hard, take feedback and learn on the way
• Like meritocracy and being judged by what you deliver
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset; prepared to work non-standard working hours and travel if required Like working in the team collaborative environment
• We prefer people to work in the office at least 50% of the time with preferred location being London; we are also open to candidates based in Singapore, US and remote candidates in exceptional cases

Wintermute Offer

• A unique opportunity to work on very interesting projects, get the level of responsibility and ownership that would take years longer to get in other startups of similar scale or in financial institutions
• A unique opportunity to join one of the strongest and highest potential crypto startups globally, one with is already commercially successful, yet is small enough to have significant impact and upside
• Great culture: highly professional and ambitious, yet informal, friendly, non-hierarchical, collaborative and entrepreneurial. For office candidates: a cool office in central London with a sci-fi touch
• Weekly team events, such as offsite events, team lunches, team dinners, team board games and gaming sessions; these are not obligatory in any sense, but this is what many of us like to do
• Aligned incentive structure: on top of competitive fixed compensation you get significant performance-based variable pay

Tips for Successful Application

• Only apply to us if you are genuinely interested or curious about this role and this space; this is not for someone who is just looking for “a job”
• Do your research: look at our website, social media channels and key crypto events
• Write us a short, honest, and direct message if you’d like to apply. Tell us about why you are interested in Wintermute generally and this specific role in particular
• Do not send us generic copy paste applications, we are looking for authentic people who share our interests, values and ambitions. If you don’t have some obviously matching experience or skills, make sure you state very clearly what you can bring or how your experience is relevant/transferable
• Prepare to be asked specific questions about your past projects and our hard skills requirements
• We get a lot of applications, so unfortunately, we won’t be able to proceed if you simply press “submit button”; we do promise to reply to everyone who puts time and effort into making the application relevant!