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The Head of Strategic Institutions is a senior commercial leader responsible for building, monetizing, and expanding OKX’s relationships with global banks, asset managers, hedge funds, family offices, quant funds, and sovereign wealth funds. The role owns consolidated institutional revenue performance, pipeline health, segment strategy, and the origination and closing of complex strategic partnerships. It requires strong expertise in crypto market infrastructure, including custody, trading, FIX connectivity, settlement, and regulatory frameworks, along with the ability to advocate for product investments using clear ROI cases. The leader will manage senior commercial talent, shape institutional marketing and thought-leadership messaging, and represent OKX credibly to executive, compliance, risk, and board-level stakeholders. This is a highly autonomous, externally facing position suited to an established institutional sales executive with an active Tier 1 network and a record of closing high-value deals.
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Dear Hiring Team,
I am excited to apply for the Head of Strategic Institutions role at OKX, bringing senior institutional business-development experience, a relationship-led approach, and a focus on measurable recurring revenue growth. I have originated and structured complex partnerships with senior stakeholders across financial institutions, translating commercial, product, and regulatory requirements into executable agreements. My background in digital-asset market infrastructure, custody, trading workflows, and institutional onboarding would enable me to represent OKX credibly with banks, asset managers, and funds. I would welcome the opportunity to build a high-quality global pipeline, lead strategic deal execution, and strengthen OKX’s institutional market position.
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I would segment the pipeline by client type, expected annualized revenue, probability, implementation effort, regulatory complexity, and strategic logo value. I would run a weighted forecast with clear stage definitions, identify next-step owners and dates for every material opportunity, and balance long-cycle bank opportunities with shorter-cycle fund revenue to protect near-term attainment.
I would begin with the institution’s intended use cases and risk framework, then map OKX’s custody, trading, connectivity, settlement, compliance, and legal capabilities to those requirements. Where gaps exist, I would quantify the revenue, retention, strategic-logo, and reusable-product value of a proposed solution before advocating for prioritization internally.
I have structured complex institutional partnerships by aligning commercial economics, implementation scope, governance, service levels, risk allocation, and executive sponsorship early in the process. My approach is to preserve momentum through a mutual action plan while ensuring legal, compliance, product, and operations teams are engaged before issues become late-stage blockers.
I would measure performance through qualified pipeline coverage, forecast accuracy, win rate, sales-cycle duration, recurring revenue, implementation conversion, client retention, and strategic-account expansion. I would also use regular deal reviews and account plans to coach leaders on stakeholder mapping, value articulation, and disciplined next-step execution.
I would position OKX as an institutional counterparty by leading with the client’s business outcomes and then substantiating credibility through relevant regulatory standing, compliance controls, operational resilience, market infrastructure, and partnership evidence. The message would be tailored for business sponsors, risk teams, compliance committees, and boards rather than relying on a generic crypto narrative.
Who We Are
At OKX, we believe that the future will be reshaped by crypto, and ultimately contribute to every individual’s freedom. OKX is a leading crypto exchange, and the developer of OKX Wallet, giving millions access to crypto trading and decentralized crypto applications (dApps). OKX is also a trusted brand by hundreds of large institutions seeking access to crypto markets. We are safe and reliable, backed by our Proof of Reserves. Across our multiple offices globally, we are united by our core principles: We Before Me, Do the Right Thing, and Get Things Done. These shared values drive our culture, shape our processes, and foster a friendly, rewarding, and diverse environment for every OK-er. OKX is part of OKG, a group that brings the value of Blockchain to users around the world, through our leading products OKX, OKX Wallet, OKLink and more.
About the Opportunity
What You’ll Be Doing
- Tier 1 network ownership and expansion. You curate, expand, and monetize your personal network of C-suite relationships at the largest global financial institutions. Your network is the vertical’s primary competitive advantage.
- Revenue ownership and pipeline oversight. You carry the consolidated institutional revenue target across all segments. You own the number, the forecast, and pipeline health.
- Vertical strategy and segment prioritization. You determine how to balance long-cycle bank partnerships (6-12+ months, custom integration, marquee logos) with shorter-cycle fund and asset manager clients (3-6 months, more standardized product, revenue velocity).
- Tier 1 deal origination and closing (commercial structuring). You are the commercial architect on the biggest deals. You structure creative partnerships, negotiate terms, and close. You work alongside your Sr. Relationship Director who drives relationship-led selling and oversee the Sr. Institutional RM who executes commercially – on a global level.
- Product need analysis and advocacy (ROI estimate of feature requests). Institutional clients surface product requirements that don’t exist yet — custom custody flows, new API capabilities, regulatory wrappers. You translate these into business cases with ROI estimates and advocate internally with product and engineering.
- Regulatory positioning and compliance reflection. Traditional institutions’ primary barrier is not capital efficiency — it’s regulatory confidence. You articulate OKX’s regulatory standing (MiCA licensing, banking partnerships, compliance infrastructure) to client compliance committees, boards, and risk teams. You make the case for why OKX is a defensible counterparty.
- External positioning and institutional marketing narrative. You own how OKX is perceived in the institutional market. You shape the narrative for OKX institutional and oversee the development of sales and marketing collateral (pitch decks, solution briefs, case studies, competitive positioning documents), shape press releases for institutional milestones, and develop thought leadership content that articulates OKX’s integration-first, relationship-led positioning.
What We Look For In You
- 10+ years of Business Development experience
- Active institutional network. You have done business with C-suite decision-makers at banks, asset managers, and funds within the last 18 months.
- Personal deal closing experience. You have personally originated and closed institutional partnerships.
- Deep crypto product fluency. You can discuss custody models, trading infrastructure, FIX connectivity, settlement mechanics, and regulatory frameworks credibly without preparation. You understand the infrastructure development lifecycle of banks and traditional asset managers getting into digital assets.
- Senior team management. You have managed or directed director-level professionals. You lead through influence and partnership.
Nice to Haves
- Existing network of institutional contacts in banks, asset managers, and funds — relationships accelerate ramp time even if they are not the primary asset
- Experience selling to both banks (complex, long-cycle, integration-heavy) and funds (shorter-cycle, standardized) simultaneously
- Track record of building institutional sales teams and playbooks in a high-growth environment
- Experience developing sales collateral, thought leadership content, or institutional marketing narratives
- Experience with CRMs, pipeline building and tool management, sales intelligence platforms for institutional prospecting
- Proficient in use of AI tooling (e.g. Claude) for workflow automation and productivity enhancement on behalf of small, high performance teams
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive total compensation package
- L&D programs and Education subsidy for employees’ growth and development
- Various team building programs and company events
- More that we love to tell you along the process!
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