Monad Foundation - Head of DeFi
Requirements
• DeFi-fluent operator. You have a track record of driving measurable growth in TVL, liquidity, or protocol adoption. You understand value flows across lending (Aave, Morpho, Euler), CDPs, DEXs, and yield-bearing stablecoins — and can explain what each category needs to get right to win. • DeFi-fluent operator. • Opinionated on asset quality and risk. You can research a new interest-bearing asset and quickly assess bridging mechanics, liquidity depth, redemption windows, reserve transparency, and issuer controls. • Opinionated on asset quality and risk. • Deep, pre-existing network. With a network among whales, liquid crypto-native funds, DeFi curators, and blue-chip protocol founders, you bring the rolodex on day one. • Deep, pre-existing network. • Executive presence. Credible with TradFi/Fintech C-suite; able to make DeFi concepts legible to institutional decision-makers without dumbing them down. • Executive presence. • Strategic and organized. You see the full DeFi chessboard, prioritize ruthlessly, and know when to move fast versus when to build consensus. • Strategic and organized. • Proven leadership and management experience. You have run a small, high-output team with clear direction and high trust. • Proven leadership and management experience. • Efficient communicator, written and verbal. You distill complexity into clarity without losing nuance. • Efficient communicator, written and verbal. • Strong knowledge of trading/markets; able to think in expected value (EV) terms. • Experience deploying or managing liquidity across multiple chains. • Comfort reading Solidity and understanding smart contract risk at a conceptual level. • Experience working within a foundation, DAO, or decentralized contributor structure.
Responsibilities
• Own DeFi growth strategy for the Monad network. You will prioritize bets across lending, DEXs, stablecoins, RWAs, and yield infrastructure, measured by TVL, volume, stablecoin market cap, RWA market cap, and fees generated. • Own DeFi growth strategy for the Monad network. • Execute end-to-end asset and protocol onboarding. You will coordinate across oracles, liquidators, DEX pool setup, curators, and bridging providers. • Execute end-to-end asset and protocol onboarding. • Advise DeFi builders deploying on the Monad network. With high-conviction, you will provide actionable feedback on protocol mechanics, product gaps, and market positioning. • Advise DeFi builders deploying on the Monad • network • Activate your network of whales, liquid funds, curators, and blue-chip DeFi founders to kickstart early liquidity and protocol traction. • Activate your network • Bridge DeFi and TradFi/Fintech. You will represent the Foundation with senior institutional executives, translating yield generation opportunities (e.g., Morpho vaults on the Monad network) into strategic terms they act on. • Bridge DeFi and TradFi/Fintech. • Drive incentive strategy. You will form and defend opinions on which initiatives attract durable TVL per unit of spend versus which produce mercenary capital. • Drive incentive strategy • Manage a team of 2–3 DeFi specialists. You will set priorities, maintain execution tempo, and build a culture of rigor and bias for action. • Manage a team of 2–3 DeFi specialists.
Benefits
• Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact. • Challenging problems. • Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto. • Huge opportunity. • The right team. You’ll be part of an exceptional and highly-motivated team • The right team. • Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output. As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture. • Culture
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