Product Management, Payments Lead

About Chainlink
Chainlink is the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance (DeFi). The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, lending, payments, stablecoins, and more. Since inventing decentralized oracle networks, Chainlink has enabled tens of trillions in transaction value and now secures the vast majority of DeFi.

Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, S&P Dow Jones Indices, FTSE Russell, WisdomTree, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, Lido, GMX and many others. Chainlink leverages a novel fee model where offchain and onchain revenue from enterprise adoption is converted to LINK tokens and stored in a strategic Chainlink Reserve. Learn more at chain.link.

Your Impact

The Product Lead will own Chainlink’s suite of offerings for stablecoins and digital payments. This leader will architect the strategy, roadmap, and execution across asset issuers, payment processors, merchants, and financial institutions. You will build a solution that unifies compliance, transparency, and interoperability through Chainlink products — POR, NAV, CCIP, CRE, ACE, CDY — and ecosystem partnerships. In this role, you will act as a founder & owner within the company — navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and building toward global product-market fit.

Responsibilities

• Define the stablecoin ecosystem architecture and solution blueprint leveraging core Chainlink products to create a modular, extensible, and composable platform.

• Design and launch Chainlink’s product offerings for stablecoins and digital payments across compliance, interoperability, and distribution use-cases.

• Eventually expand the platform to support additional stablecoin standards, regions, and payment use cases (e.g., retail, institutional, merchant settlement).

• Drive ecosystem adoption and cement Chainlink as a global standard for stablecoin usage across all chains and payment flows.

• Launch Chainlink-powered solutions for PSPs, wallets, and merchants to simplify integration, ensure compliance, and reduce time to settlement.

• Enable transaction orchestration with any stablecoin across any chain — abstracting bridge complexity and enabling universal stablecoin acceptance.

Required Experience

• 5-10 years of product management experience having built products from 0-1

• Built or led stablecoin, payment, or financial infrastructure products with strong cross-functional exposure across compliance, issuer engagement, and distribution partners.

• Deep understanding of the stablecoin landscape, including issuer requirements, regulatory frameworks, merchant settlement needs, and the middleware stack for PSPs and wallets.

• Ability to design and lead a multi-product platform strategy in a fast-moving, ambiguous space.

• Technical depth to collaborate with engineering teams across Chainlink core products (POR, NAV, CCIP, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success launching multi-sided ecosystems or developer platforms (e.g., stablecoin issuer <> PSP <> merchant <> regulator flows).

• Experience scaling Web3 or fintech platforms with compliance-aware modules (e.g., AML, KYC, auditability)

• Evangelist-level communication — able to align internal and external stakeholders behind a complex vision.

• Product strategy and GTM experience in platforms with financial primitives or regulated flows.

• Experience working on open financial protocols, programmable money systems, or cross-chain middleware.

• Familiarity with CBDCs, e-money licenses, or regulated stablecoin frameworks across US, EU, and Asia.

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