About Excelya 
Excelya is a fastgrowing European CRO driven by the ambition to deliver the most engaging employee experience while becoming a leading player in clinical research. With more than 1,000 employees across 28 countries, we continue to expand and strengthen our organisation. 
As part of this growth, we are looking for a Senior Business Unit Manager to lead and develop one of our strategic Business Units, oversee a team of Business Managers, and drive operational and commercial excellence across a perimeter of approximately 70 consultants. 

Your Mission 

As a Senior Business Unit Manager, you will be responsible for the full operational, commercial and managerial performance of your Business Unit. Your responsibilities will include: 

Leadership & Team Management 

New Business Lead (Founding GTM Team)

Location: New York City

On-site | Full time

Compensation: $100K - $120K

Our client is a venture-backed, high-growth startup reinventing the global $600B+ staffing industry through a fundamentally redesigned technical interviewing platform. By enabling recruiting firms to combat fraud and identify elite talent with high confidence, our client has quickly become a critical partner for dozens of enterprise staffing organizations, including the largest firm in the world.

Having surpassed seven figures in revenue with a talent-dense team of seven from institutions such as Stanford, Penn, and Waterloo, our client is now looking for a Founding New Business Lead. This is a foundational Go-To-Market role designed for a relentless, high-energy sales professional who wants to move beyond the traditional "cog-in-the-machine" SDR model. The successful candidate will own the outbound motion, influence the GTM playbook, and join a company well-capitalized by a $3.1M seed round from premier investors like BoxGroup, GSV Ventures, and angels from OpenAI and SpaceX.

Key Responsibilities

Product Designer (New Initiatives)

Location: New York (Office)
Compensation: $120K - $180K

We are a core contributor to the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain, engineered to scale Web3 applications to the level of performance seen in traditional Web2 environments. Our team is composed of veterans from Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, and Nvidia, all dedicated to onboarding the next billion users onto a high-performance digital ecosystem. Backed by $30M from top-tier investors like Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, we are scaling rapidly and looking for a Product Designer to help bring early-stage ideas to life.

This role sits at the critical intersection of brand, product, and marketing. You will be the primary driver for defining the first visual expression of new initiatives—taking a concept from a "loose idea" to a polished, compelling reality. You’ll thrive here if you are comfortable with ambiguity and love the challenge of building "Version 1" of a project.

Key Responsibilities:

Founding Engineer (Trading Infrastructure)

Location: New York, London (Office)

Compensation: Competitive

We are building the next generation of global trading infrastructure. Designed for sub-millisecond execution and institutional depth, our platform powers spot, perpetuals, and prediction markets on a unified liquidity engine. Built by a team of Wall Street veterans and crypto-native engineers, we are moving beyond the limitations of current exchanges to create a high-performance network that spans across asset classes with zero compromise.

As a Founding Engineer, you will be a core architect of our trading ecosystem. This is a high-leverage role where you will be trusted with substantial autonomy to make foundational design decisions. Working directly with the founders, you will bridge the gap between high-finance performance and decentralized innovation to deliver a best-in-class trading experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Senior Rust Engineer (Solana/DeFi)

Location: Remote (CET +/- 4 hours) Type: Full-time

Compensation: $72K - $90K

We are a stealth-stage DeFi Trading & Intelligence platform dedicated to the Solana ecosystem. We are building the critical infrastructure required for sophisticated on-chain decision-making—ranging from real-time signals and smart money tracking to enterprise-grade fraud detection. Our platform delivers high-fidelity on-chain analytics through a high-performance API. We are a small, fast-moving team tackling the most challenging problems in blockchain data. As a Senior Rust Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in architecting systems that process millions of Solana transactions in real-time.

This is an early-stage startup environment. We are looking for an engineer who thrives on high ownership, fast iteration cycles, and the opportunity to ship code that immediately impacts production environments. If you are passionate about building high-throughput infrastructure and solving "hard" data problems, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

Quantitative Trading Analyst (Risk Architecture)

Location: Porto, Portugal

Hybrid | Full-time

Compensation: $150K - $175K

Our client is a high-growth financial technology firm on a mission to democratize access to global markets. By leveraging blockchain technology, the organization is replacing traditional, opaque brokerage models with a transparent, permissionless trading stack. This infrastructure allows users with digital wallets to trade stocks, commodities, currencies, and digital assets with full transparency and verifiable, auditable code. Having secured over $27.9M in funding from premier venture capital firms—including General Catalyst, Jump, LocalGlobe, and Susquehanna (SIG)—the company is positioned at the forefront of the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement.

The organization is seeking a Quantitative Trading Analyst to architect and upgrade the risk management engine securing the protocol. This role serves as the critical bridge between Traditional Finance (TradFi) derivatives and DeFi market structures. The mandate involves rigorously quantifying protocol risk and designing systems that facilitate high-leverage trading of real-world assets while mathematically ensuring protocol solvency.

Key Responsibilities

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

Location: Remote / Flexible Type: Full-time

Compensation:$250K - $300K

We are a high-growth software development powerhouse and a primary contributor to one of the largest, most high-velocity crypto social networks in the world. Our team consists of elite builders moving at the frontier of consumer scale, decentralized finance, and high-performance engineering. Our products reach millions of users and operate under the most demanding real-world constraints.

We are seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to take command of our financial engine. As a core member of the executive leadership team, you will manage massive liquidity, optimize high-volume revenue streams, and navigate the complex intersection of social media and decentralized finance. This is a role for a "crypto-native" leader who thrives in hyper-growth environments where speed is a competitive advantage.

Responsibilities

Staff Frontend Engineer

Location: New York

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client is a high-performance technology development firm responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure behind the world’s most active digital asset launchpads. The systems managed by this organization are characterized by low latency, high throughput, and constant high-concurrency load. This is a mission-critical environment where technical precision is paramount; the frontend systems must remain resilient and performant under the weight of hundreds of thousands of active users.

The organization is seeking a Staff Frontend Engineer to own the design and evolution of large-scale frontend architecture. This is a hands-on, high-impact role focused on building fast, reliable, and maintainable user-facing systems. The successful candidate will join an elite team of builders where the pace is intense, expectations are high, and the impact of every deployment is immediate.

Key Responsibilities

Solana Program Engineer

Location: New York (Office)

On-site | Full-time

Compensation: Competitive

Our client is a high-performance technology development firm responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure behind the world’s most active digital asset launchpads. The systems managed by this organization are defined by ultra-low latency, high throughput, and constant high-concurrency load. This is a mission-critical environment where technical precision is paramount; these systems operate under extreme real-world pressure where the margin for error is non-existent.

The organization is seeking a Staff Solana Program Engineer to design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy transaction volume. This is a hands-on role requiring absolute technical ownership and a deep understanding of blockchain performance. The successful candidate will join an elite team of builders where the pace is intense, expectations are high, and the impact of every deployment is immediate.

Key Responsibilities

Head of Marketing

Craft the Story of How Ethereum Wins Institutional Adoption

Location: NYC-based candidates or people willing to relocate there

Compensation: $200K - $300K

Our client is building the critical infrastructure required to bring the "real world" to Ethereum. Their mission is to provide the rails for Wall Street to operate on-chain, moving the global financial system into the 21st century.

They are seeking a visionary Head of Marketing to own their narrative and bridge the gap between two distinct worlds: the high-stakes environment of institutional finance and the frontier of Web3. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will be responsible for the brand’s evolution as they prepare to reveal a series of groundbreaking products in 2026. This is a role for a storyteller who understands that for them to win, Ethereum must win—and you will be the one articulating that victory to the world.

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