Director of Institutional Growth

The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders who are on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralized tech. We believe that the Monad blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world.

The Monad Foundation is searching for a Head of Institutional Growth. You will be responsible for driving adoption of the Monad ecosystem among institutional investors, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and other financial entities. You will develop and execute the strategy to onboard institutional capital and lead initiatives around real-world asset tokenization and other capital markets use cases. This role blends deep crypto-native knowledge with traditional finance experience.

• Identify and convert strategic institutional targets for adoption of various initiatives in the Monad ecosystem

• Build trust and credibility within the investment community, including large asset managers, family offices, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and investment banks

• Encourage onboarding of institutions to native applications in the Monad ecosystem such as staking, on-chain finance, and RWAs

• Structure, negotiate and close impactful transactions with cross-stakeholder collaboration

• Represent the Foundation in high-stakes conversations with global financial leaders

• Represent the Foundation at conferences, forums, and webinars as a subject matter expert

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in capital markets, investment banking or structured finance, and at least 2 years working with digital assets and on-chain finance

• Deep understanding of blockchain ecosystems and DeFi

• Strong network of institutional relationships across traditional finance and crypto-native funds

• Demonstrated success in closing complex commercial and investment deals

• Strong analytical, strategic, and communication skills, and are able to translate technical concepts to the layperson

• Entrepreneurial mindset and thrive in a fast-paced environment

• You love getting things done

• Camaraderie with a stellar team on an ambitious mission

• Opportunity to make a huge impact in shaping the adoption of decentralized tech

• High-impact, high-visibility role with global reach

• An environment of extreme growth

• Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.

• 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.

• The right team. You’ll be part of an exceptional and highly-motivated 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.

Benefits for full-time employees may include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees); generous paid time off; paid parental leave; and 10 company-observed holidays.