Who is Risk Labs?
Risk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.
What is UMA?
UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.
What is Across?
Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO. Across‘ purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient. Across’ Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across.
Where do you fit in?
We’re looking for a Sales Engineer to join our team. You’ll join as a key player on our Sales team, helping driven integrations for both Across and UMA. This is an exciting role where you’ll be at the forefront of what possible, working with industry leaders to help maximize their impact by integrating our protocols.
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Responsibilities
- Sales mindset & output: Always be building a pipeline of integration leads and develop creative tactics to drive conversion. Establish a personal rapport with partners, build and maintain relationships both before and after the integrations to ensure we’re meeting their needs and communicating updates effectively.
- Technical Evangelism & Outreach: Act as an UMA evangelist by attending industry events, delivering compelling presentations (from CEOs to fellow engineers), and publishing insightful content. Engage in community outreach and developer advocacy to expand UMA’s reach and create a positive builder experience.
- Solutions expertise: Use deep technical knowledge to explain all technical aspects of the product and protocol needed to convey solutions and alignment with the partner needs and UMA’s offerings. Be prepared to negotiate, follow up, and strategize with partners and your fellow sales team to reach the best outcome.
- Execution and Partner management: Collaborate and execute on sales strategy and deliver excellent support both internally and externally. Manage your leads, within the sales process, through onboarding to post sale relationship maintenance.
- Time Management: Exhibit excellent time management skills to balance multiple tasks, ongoing project responsibilities, and client engagements effectively.
- Feedback and Continuous improvement: Research and be on top of industry trends and changes in protocols and their ecosystems. Actively engage partners throughout the sales lifecycle to collect product feedback, communicate updates, and keep them warm for future opportunities.
