Business Development Lead

Perena

We believe that stable coins are more than a payment tool — they’re a better form of banking. Perena is building the Stable bank Network: an ecosystem that connects stablecoin infrastructure, liquidity rails, yield strategies, and payments into one protocol.

To date, we’ve built:

• Numéraire
  , the largest stable swap on Solana, with over $2B in cumulative volume

• USD
  *, Solana’s yield-integrated stable LP token, backed by assets like USDC, USDT, PYUSD — and soon, U.S. Treasury exposure via Franklin Templeton

• Perena Studio — a cultural lab for craft, design, and expression. It's where we share work, playfulness, and growth — and where aesthetics meet systems thinking.

Perena is founded by a team of builders from the Solana ecosystem with backgrounds in Trad Fi and DeFi. We believe deeply in pushing financial architecture forward — and in doing it with transparency, resilience, and speed.

We’re backed by some of the best in the world, including:

• Solana co-founders Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj Gokal

• Investors from Citadel, Jane Street, IMC, and Susquehanna

• Borderless Capital, Binance Labs, Primitive Ventures, Maelstrom, Anagram, Breed, and others

Perena was a sponsor of the Colosseum Hackathon Stablecoin Track
, helping fund the next generation of stablecoin projects on Solana. Our growing community spans over 20,000 developers, users, and builders aligned around one goal: reinventing how money works.

Distribution & Integration Partnerships

• Identify, negotiate, and close wallet integrations that embed USD
  * natively

• Land yield aggregator and dashboard listings

• Own the protocol-to-protocol partnership pipeline

• Drive exchange and on-ramp integrations that bring capital flows directly into Perena vaults

Institutional & Enterprise BD

• Build and manage a pipeline of institutional allocators and fintech companies deploying stable coins

• Structure creative deal formats — revenue share, boosted yield tiers, co-marketing — that make integration economically obvious for partners

Whale & High-Value Depositor Relationships

• Cultivate relationships with $100K+ depositors as part of broader BD motion

• Support the Perena Purple program: white-glove onboarding, direct access, priority vault allocation

• Convert warm inbound and referrals from partner integrations into large, sticky deposits

Growth Intelligence

• Track competitor moves and identify whitespace before they do

• Report weekly on pipeline health, partnership status, and TVL attribution by channel

• Work closely with the CEO on fundraising narrative

• 3+ years in BD, partnerships, or growth — ideally at a fintech or DeFi company

• You’ve closed real deals: integrations, distribution agreements, or enterprise partnerships with meaningful revenue or TVL impact

• Solana-native is a strong plus. You know the ecosystem, have relationships, and understand how protocols talk to each other

• Fintech fluency matters too. You can hold a credible conversation with an institutional allocator and a DeFi native in the same afternoon

• You treat the BD pipeline like an engineer treats a codebase — structured, versioned, no loose ends

• You're a self-starter who doesn't need a playbook. You write the playbook

Stable coins are transforming how the world stores, moves, and grows value — and we’re still early. This is a once-in-a-generation shift: from legacy money to programmable, accessible, internet-native finance. Building here isn’t just technically interesting — it’s globally meaningful.

We own our future — we trust each other to take initiative. Voices are heard and outcomes matter.

We treat our work as craft — thoughtful, opinionated, and precise. Many of us come from design, art, or cultural backgrounds.

We think from first principles — Perena is a reimagining of financial infrastructure. That starts with reimagining how we build.

We work in public — we value clarity, writing, and sharing progress openly within the team and with our community.