About Raiku Raiku is redefining Solana’s consensus ecosystem by building infrastructure that enables guaranteed transaction inclusion, pre-confirmations, and deterministic settlement. Our software bridges validators with purpose-built execution environments—creating a new design space for high-performance, low-latency onchain applications. Backed by top-tier investors and actively collaborating with leading validators and dApps, Raiku is positioned to become a foundational layer in the future of Solana infrastructure.
Role Overview As Senior Ecosystem Growth Associate, you will be instrumental in driving Raiku's adoption across the Solana ecosystem and broader web3 space. You will lead strategic outreach to protocols, validators, infra teams, and institutional users—transforming Raiku’s technical innovations into concrete partnerships, integrations, and use cases. This is a hybrid role spanning ecosystem development, business strategy, and hands-on execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Partnerships
- Identify and prioritize potential partners across DeFi, MEV infra, validator operators, and developer platforms.
- Lead outreach, engagement, and relationship development with key stakeholders in the Solana and adjacent ecosystems.
- Structure and negotiate partnership terms aligned with Raiku’s goals and product roadmap.
- Maintain visibility into the broader market landscape and partner positioning.
- Growth Strategy & Execution
- Develop and implement targeted growth campaigns (e.g. validator adoption drives, app integrations, slot marketplace activation).
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure market fit and partner enablement.
- Track adoption metrics and use feedback loops to iterate on go-to-market strategy.
- Ecosystem Engagement
- Represent Raiku in the Solana community—across events, forums, and strategic working groups.
- Actively engage with ecosystem contributors, dApps, and L1 stakeholders to surface opportunities and challenges.
- Position Raiku as a mission-critical upgrade for the Solana validator and application stack.
- Market Intelligence & Reporting
- Monitor trends in validator incentives, fee markets, MEV, and Solana protocol changes (e.g. SIMDs).
- Conduct competitor and use case mapping to identify whitespace.
- Own partnership CRM, pipeline reporting, and growth dashboards.
- Internal Collaboration
- Interface closely with engineering and research teams to shape product integrations and technical narratives.
- Collaborate with marketing to co-develop ecosystem messaging, educational content, and growth campaigns.
- Share ecosystem learnings internally to influence product direction and research priorities.
What We're Looking For:
- 3–5+ years in business development, ecosystem, or growth roles in blockchain or infrastructure startups.
- Deep familiarity with Solana: validator economics, SIMD proposals, MEV mechanics, and the core builder community.
- Strong network in the Solana ecosystem and adjacent L1s, especially among dApps, validator operators, and DeFi protocols.
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills; you can hold your own in both business and technical discussions.
- Demonstrated ability to turn vision into partnerships, and partnerships into measurable adoption.
- Ability to operate independently and thrive in a fast-paced, high-context remote team.
Nice to Have:
- Experience working directly with validators, MEV protocols, or RPC infrastructure.
- Prior exposure to developer ecosystems or go-to-market roles for L1 or L2 infrastructure projects.
- Comfortable with lightweight technical topics—state machines, transaction ordering, compute budgets, etc.
