Monad Foundation

Business Development Lead, Financial Institutions

Monad Foundation

11 days ago

## **Monad Foundation** 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 Role** We're looking for a **Business Development Lead** to position Monad Foundation's efforts to build out the Financial Institutions vertical. This is an entrepreneurial, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives on building from zero, identifying opportunities, forming partnerships, and creating momentum around real financial usage on the blockchain. This is a dual-mandate role. On one side, you will own Monad's financial institution relationships — building the pipeline, advisor network, and institutional narrative that positions Monad as the chain of choice when banks, exchanges, and market infrastructure providers evaluate where to build on-chain. On the other, you will own the operational backbone of Monad's institutional communications function — keeping stakeholders informed, tracking ecosystem and token health, and ensuring this function runs with consistency and quality. ### **What You Will Do** #### **Financial Institutions – BD & Advisory** - Build and manage a structured pipeline of target financial institutions — banks, exchanges, clearing houses, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers (e.g., CME, ICE/NYSE, DTCC, Nasdaq, etc.) — tracking each organization across stages of engagement: awareness, evaluation, pilot, and committed. - Develop deep, trust-based relationships with senior decision-makers at major financial institutions, with a focus on the individuals and teams responsible for blockchain strategy, digital assets, and infrastructure decisions. - Cultivate internal champions within each target institution, recognizing that institutional decisions involve multiple stakeholders and that durable progress requires building a coalition, not relying on a single relationship. - Develop and execute an advisor and influencer strategy — identifying and engaging the consulting firms, advisors, and intermediaries that shape how financial institutions think about chain selection. These relationships often have more bearing on institutional decisions than direct BD efforts alone. - Maintain a real-time, working view of which institutions are evaluating competing chains and infrastructure, and the underlying drivers of those evaluations. Develop a sharp, insightful positioning for why Monad is the better fit for specific institutional use cases. - Build Monad's presence in the forums, working groups, and industry bodies where institutional blockchain strategy is formed. - Develop and maintain Monad's institutional narrative — a clear, compelling, and technically credible articulation of why Monad is the right infrastructure partner for financial institutions building on-chain. #### **MON Ecosystem & Institutional Communications** - Own the operational cadence of institutional communications: drafting regular ecosystem updates, preparing materials for calls and meetings, and maintaining a consistent outreach rhythm with current and prospective institutional stakeholders. - Monitor sentiment across institutional channels, identifying shifts in perception early and surfacing them internally with context and recommended responses. - Support the development and refinement of Monad's institutional narrative, ensuring stakeholders have a clear and differentiated understanding of what Monad is building and why it matters. - Manage the logistics and follow-through of institutional relationships — ensuring no current stakeholder or warm prospect goes dark due to operational gaps. ### **Who You Are** #### **Background** - 6-10 years of experience in one or more of the following: financial institution partnerships, institutional BD, management consulting with a financial services focus, or a crypto infrastructure company where you have seen the pipeline of institutions looking to build on the blockchain. - Direct exposure to how large financial institutions evaluate, procure, and adopt new technology infrastructure — you understand the internal dynamics, stakeholders, and timelines involved. - Existing relationships within financial institutions, consulting firms, or the broader institutional crypto ecosystem that give you a running start. #### **Skills** - Exceptional written communication — investor updates, institutional materials, and narrative documents you produce should be clear, precise, and credible without requiring heavy editing. - Familiarity with token markets and institutional investor behavior — you understand how institutional allocators think about digital assets, what drives conviction, and what erodes it. - Comfortable managing multiple workstreams with different audiences and timelines simultaneously, without dropping quality on either. - Analytically sharp enough to track competitive dynamics across chains and synthesize institutional feedback into actionable intelligence. ### **Why Work with Us** - **Challenging problems.** You'll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact. - **Endless Opportunity for Impact.** The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad's core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance. - **The right team.** You'll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated. - **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. - **Strong Ecosystem.** The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Tokenization Lead

Monad Foundation

14 days ago

## **Monad Foundation** 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. ### **About The Role** Tokenization of real-world assets is one of the most significant structural shifts happening in financial markets — and Monad is positioned to be the home for it. As **Tokenization Lead**, you will own the end-to-end effort to build a thriving RWA ecosystem on Monad: sourcing and onboarding asset issuers, unlocking on-chain utility, and ensuring tokenized assets reach investors and end users at scale. This is a hands-on, execution-oriented role. You will manage the full workflow — from identifying and closing asset issuers, to coordinating with DeFi protocols and risk curators to make those assets useful on-chain, to working with distribution partners to put them in front of the right investors. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across BD, DeFi, and ecosystem partnerships, and report into senior leadership overseeing Monad's financial institutions effort. ### **What You Will Do** #### **Issuer Sourcing & Onboarding** - Identify, engage, and onboard asset managers, tokenization platforms, and fund managers looking to issue or migrate tokenized assets onto Monad. - Build and manage a structured issuer pipeline, tracking prospects from initial conversation through to live issuance. - Develop a point of view on which asset classes to prioritize — balancing institutional credibility, investor demand, and Monad-specific differentiation — and execute against that thesis. - Build early relationships with traditional financial institutions and asset managers, laying the groundwork for longer-term TradFi issuance on Monad. #### **On-Chain Utility & DeFi Integration** - Coordinate with borrow/lend protocols and risk curators to ensure tokenized assets are integrated into DeFi primitives — lending, collateral, yield — once live on Monad. - Manage incentive conversations with protocols to drive liquidity and usage of tokenized assets on-chain. - Work toward common standards for how assets are issued and composed on Monad, providing predictability for issuers and clean integration paths for DeFi protocols. - Ensure secondary market liquidity exists for tokenized assets on-chain, making the ecosystem credible to serious investors beyond just issuance. #### **Distribution** - Work with Monad's BD and ecosystem teams to ensure tokenized assets reach end users at scale — through crypto-native allocators, retail platforms, e-wallets, CEXs, super-apps, fintechs, and neobanks. - Understand and track who is holding tokenized assets on Monad, for how long, and why — using that data to refine sourcing priorities and build the case for new issuers. #### **Market & Regulatory Intelligence** - Maintain a clear view of the competitive tokenization landscape — which assets are being issued where, which platforms are gaining traction, and why issuers choose one chain over another. - Develop working knowledge of the regulatory environment across key jurisdictions, understanding which asset types are viable where and ensuring Monad is positioned ahead of regulatory shifts rather than reacting to them. #### **Cross-Functional Collaboration** - Serve as the connective tissue across issuers, DeFi teams, risk curators, and distribution partners — ensuring the tokenization workflow runs with accountability and momentum. - Feed tokenization pipeline developments into Monad's broader investor relations and capital markets narrative, ensuring institutional MON investors understand the ecosystem being built. ### **What We Are Looking For** #### **Background** - 5–10 years of experience in one or more of the following: RWA or tokenization, asset management, institutional product at a digital asset firm, capital markets or structured products at a financial institution, or BD at a DeFi protocol with institutional focus. - Direct familiarity with how tokenized assets work on-chain — you understand the issuance process, the role of risk curators and lending protocols, and what makes an asset useful versus merely issued. - Experience managing multi-party workflows across issuers, protocols, and distribution partners. #### **Skills** - Strong relationship builder — comfortable engaging both traditional finance counterparts (asset managers, fund administrators) and crypto-native teams (DeFi protocols, risk curators, wallet platforms). - Commercially sharp — able to identify which assets and issuers will move the needle for Monad and prioritize accordingly. - Operationally organized — this role requires managing a complex, multi-stage pipeline across multiple counterparties simultaneously without losing track of where things stand. - Clear communicator — able to translate between the language of TradFi and on-chain finance depending on the audience. #### **Mindset** - Execution-oriented. You are comfortable owning a workflow end-to-end and driving it forward without waiting to be directed. - Curious about the asset side of the equation — you follow which asset classes are gaining institutional traction, who the credible issuers are, and where demand is emerging. - Collaborative — success in this role depends on working well with internal teams and external partners across very different contexts. ### **Why Work with Us** - **Challenging problems.** You'll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact. - **Endless Opportunity for Impact.** The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad's core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance. - **The right team.** You'll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated. - **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. - **Strong Ecosystem.** The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Monad Foundation

37 days ago

## **Monad Foundation** 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 Role** We're looking for a **Senior DevOps Engineer** with deep Linux expertise and a strong track record of building infrastructure and testing automation from scratch. You'll join a small, talented team of systems experts to extend the testing, tooling, and operational backbone of a high-performance, next-generation Layer 1 blockchain. ### **What You Will Do** - Build and maintain testnets and test automation for components of the Monad blockchain - Prototype new deployment patterns across validator and full-node topologies - Design and run performance benchmarks and load tests to surface bottlenecks before they reach production - Drive observability, alerting, and security across the stack - Define best practices for node operators and support them - Develop tooling for internal and external use - Participate in on-call rotation for production support ### **Who You Are** - 2+ years of DevOps experience at a professional RPC provider / professional validator company / L1 blockchain - 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management (Terraform, Ansible) - 2+ years of experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) - Proficient in bare metal server management and scripting - Proficient in at least one back-end language such as Python or Go - Hands-on experience running highly available containerized systems on Kubernetes, including packaging (Helm) and GitOps - Strong experience with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) - Comfort with network setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting at the systems level - Experience operating open-source observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar) - Proficient with command-line git - Able to juggle competing priorities and move quickly during incidents - Fluent written and spoken English ### **Why Work with Us** - **Challenging problems.** You'll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact. - **Endless Opportunity for Impact.** The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad's core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance. - **The right team.** You'll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated. - **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. - **Strong Ecosystem.** The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Business Marketing Lead

Monad Foundation

65 days ago

## Marketing Lead 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 Role As Marketing Lead, you'll work alongside the business development team and execute the marketing for Monad Foundation priorities. You'll build relationships with key external stakeholders, propose GTM activations, and see them through from concept to execution. You'll advise on business marketing budgeting and develop a strong understanding of Monad's positioning so that your work will help reinforce how Monad is reflected from an institutional and enterprise lens. We're looking for someone with high agency, energy, and taste with a propensity for speed. You know what great marketing looks like. ### What You Will Do - Drive business marketing execution across BD's highest-priority deals. Maintain a live view of the pipeline, identify co-marketing opportunities proactively, and build marketing plans. - Lead GTM activations with external partners. Manage co-branded campaigns, shared announcements, and IRL activations. You are the primary point of contact between Monad Foundation's marketing function and key external stakeholders. - Build the content infrastructure BD needs to close. Own the Monad Foundation's institutional newsletter, evergreen website resources, sales materials, and positioning documents that help BD tell Monad's story to payments, institutional, and enterprise audiences. - Measure outcomes and double down on what works. Track which co-marketing programs drive results, which relationships produce outsized value, and where time is best spent. - Operate effectively across geographies and time zones. Manage asynchronous workstreams across multiple external partners simultaneously, maintain clear written communication throughout, and deliver on timelines without requiring close supervision. ### Who You Are - 5+ years in B2B growth marketing, product marketing, or ecosystem marketing, ideally at a SaaS company, crypto infrastructure project, or emerging tech platform. Experience running co-marketing programs with external stakeholders is essential. - You know how to take a complex technical product and build a narrative that lands with business executives or institutional audiences. You understand how to market in emerging, fast-moving technical spaces where the playbook doesn't exist yet. - You are empirically minded. You define success metrics before launching, track outputs rigorously, and make decisions based on signal. You know which programs are worth the investment. - Fluent in AI tools and strong prompting skills. You build leverage through tools, automation, and systems. - High agency. You don't wait for direction. You come to the table with proposals, move fast, and enjoy solving hard problems. - Familiar with the crypto and broader tech landscape. Deep crypto-native experience is a plus. Comfort operating in a technical space with sophisticated counterparties is required. ### Why Work with Us - **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. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

DeFi Specialist

Monad Foundation

88 days ago

<p></p><p>The <strong>Monad Foundation</strong> 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.</p><p></p><h4><strong>The Role</strong></h4><p>Monad Foundation, a core contributor to the Monad protocol, is looking for a <strong>DeFi Specialist</strong> to serve as the operational backbone of DeFi growth across the Monad network. This is a hands-on, execution-heavy role for someone with encyclopedic knowledge of DeFi protocols, deep opinions on asset quality, and the coordination skills to onboard new protocols and assets from first conversation to live, liquid market.</p><p></p><p>You'll work directly with builders deploying on the Monad network, advising on protocol mechanics, identifying product gaps, and helping them ship better. You'll evaluate which assets are worth bringing to the ecosystem and which carry hidden risk. You'll coordinate across oracles, liquidators, DEX pools, curators, and bridges to make onboarding seamless. And you'll track the full state of DeFi on the Monad network in real time, spotting problems early and recommending where to allocate time or incentives for maximum impact.</p><p></p><p>If someone can hand you a protocol frontend you've never seen, and you can produce a sharp, actionable teardown in 30 minutes, this role is for you.</p><p></p><h4></h4><h4><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Advise DeFi builders on the Monad network.</strong> You will provide succinct, hard-hitting feedback on protocol design, UX, market positioning, and competitive gaps. You should be able to open any Monad-native protocol's site and quickly produce an actionable list of strengths and weaknesses.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Execution-oriented.</strong> You will own end-to-end onboarding of new protocols and assets, coordinating across oracles, liquidators, DEX pool setup, curators, and bridging providers to bring new markets live.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Prioritization and research at the forefront.</strong> You will prioritize which assets to bring to the Monad network based on market demand, composability value, and rigorous risk assessment. You will research new assets and evaluate bridging mechanics, relative interest rates, liquidity depth, redemption windows, reserve transparency, and issuer controls. </p></li> <li><p><strong>Monitor the state of DeFi on the Monad network.</strong> You will flag gaps, imbalances, or inefficiencies. Recommend where to allocate time or incentive spend to address ecosystem-level problems.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Strategy mindset.</strong> You will inform incentive strategy with grounded opinions on what types of programs attract durable TVL per unit of spend versus what generates mercenary capital.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Grow DeFi on the Monad network.</strong> You will substantially grow the network as measured by TVL, volume, stablecoin market cap, RWA market cap, and fees generated.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4>Who You Are</h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Encyclopedic DeFi knowledge.</strong> You can explain the value flow in any leading lending protocol (Aave, Morpho, Euler), walk through how a CDP, DEX, or yield-bearing stablecoin succeeds or fails, and articulate what each protocol category needs to get right to win.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Opinionated on asset quality.</strong> You track interest-bearing assets, stablecoins, and RWAs closely. You know the prevailing market opinion on key assets and can independently assess new ones for strengths and pitfalls.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Operationally rigorous.</strong> You can manage the full coordination chain of onboarding a new protocol or asset: oracles, liquidation infrastructure, DEX liquidity, curators, bridges. Nothing falls through the cracks.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Sharp protocol instincts.</strong> Given any DeFi protocol's frontend or documentation, you can rapidly identify what's working, what's broken, and what to fix. Your advice is specific, not generic.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Opinionated on incentive efficiency.</strong> You have a framework for evaluating which growth programs create flywheels versus which burn capital, and you can defend that framework with data and examples.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Strong communicator.</strong> You deliver concise, high-signal analysis and recommendations. Builders and internal stakeholders trust your judgment because your reasoning is transparent and well-supported.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4>Nice to Haves</h4><ul> <li><p>Strong knowledge of trading and markets; able to think in expected value (EV) terms and apply that lens to DeFi strategy.</p></li> <li><p>Experience at a DeFi protocol in a growth, strategy, or protocol operations capacity.</p></li> <li><p>Familiarity with the Monad network's architecture, performance characteristics, and ecosystem.</p></li> <li><p>Comfort reading Solidity and understanding smart contract risk at a conceptual level.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4><strong>Why Work with Us</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Challenging problems. </strong>You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Huge opportunity.</strong> 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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>The right team.</strong> You’ll be part of an exceptional and highly-motivated team</p></li> <li><p><strong>Culture</strong>. 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.</p></li> </ul> When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.

Head of DeFi

Monad Foundation

88 days ago

<p></p><p>The <strong>Monad Foundation</strong> 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.</p><p></p><h4><strong>The Role</strong></h4><p>Monad Foundation, a core contributor to the Monad protocol, is looking for a <strong>Head of DeFi</strong> to lead the strategy, relationships, and hands-on execution that grows DeFi across the Monad network. This is a player-coach role: you'll set the roadmap <em>and</em> get into the weeds, advising builders on protocol design, orchestrating asset onboarding, deploying incentives with discipline, and ensuring the DeFi stack on Monad is robust and capital-efficient.</p><p></p><p>You should be the person who can explain how any top protocol on <u>DefiLlama</u> makes money, open a Monad-native protocol's frontend and produce a sharp assessment of what's working and what isn't, and then get on a call with a TradFi executive and explain why on-chain yield infrastructure matters. You hold the full DeFi picture in your head, and you turn that knowledge into TVL, volume, and fees.</p><p></p><h4><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Own DeFi growth strategy for the Monad network.</strong> 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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Execute end-to-end asset and protocol onboarding. </strong>You will coordinate across oracles, liquidators, DEX pool setup, curators, and bridging providers.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Advise DeFi builders deploying on the Monad</strong> <strong>network</strong>. With high-conviction, you will provide actionable feedback on protocol mechanics, product gaps, and market positioning.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Activate your network</strong> of whales, liquid funds, curators, and blue-chip DeFi founders to kickstart early liquidity and protocol traction.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Bridge DeFi and TradFi/Fintech. </strong>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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Drive incentive strategy</strong>. You will form and defend opinions on which initiatives attract durable TVL per unit of spend versus which produce mercenary capital.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Manage a team of 2–3 DeFi specialists. </strong>You will set priorities, maintain execution tempo, and build a culture of rigor and bias for action.</p></li> </ul><p><br></p><h4>Who You Are</h4><ul> <li><p><strong>DeFi-fluent operator. </strong>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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Opinionated on asset quality and risk.</strong> You can research a new interest-bearing asset and quickly assess bridging mechanics, liquidity depth, redemption windows, reserve transparency, and issuer controls.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Deep, pre-existing network. </strong>With a network among whales, liquid crypto-native funds, DeFi curators, and blue-chip protocol founders, you bring the rolodex on day one.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Executive presence.</strong> Credible with TradFi/Fintech C-suite; able to make DeFi concepts legible to institutional decision-makers without dumbing them down.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Strategic and organized.</strong> You see the full DeFi chessboard, prioritize ruthlessly, and know when to move fast versus when to build consensus.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Proven leadership and management experience.</strong> You have run a small, high-output team with clear direction and high trust.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Efficient communicator, written and verbal.</strong> You distill complexity into clarity without losing nuance.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4>Nice to Haves</h4><ul> <li><p>Strong knowledge of trading/markets; able to think in expected value (EV) terms.</p></li> <li><p>Experience deploying or managing liquidity across multiple chains.</p></li> <li><p>Comfort reading Solidity and understanding smart contract risk at a conceptual level.</p></li> <li><p>Experience working within a foundation, DAO, or decentralized contributor structure.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4><strong>Why Work with Us</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Challenging problems. </strong>You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Huge opportunity.</strong> 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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>The right team.</strong> You’ll be part of an exceptional and highly-motivated team</p></li> <li><p><strong>Culture</strong>. 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.</p></li> </ul> When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.

DeFi Success Lead

Monad Foundation

95 days ago

<p></p><p>The <strong>Monad Foundation</strong> 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.</p><p></p><h4><strong>The Role</strong></h4><p>DeFi on Monad is live. Protocols are deploying. Now the real work begins.</p><p>We're looking for a DeFi Success Lead to own Monad Foundation’s strategy for supporting the growth of Monad's DeFi ecosystem - not just what lands on the chain, but how deep it goes. You'll work directly with the protocols already building on Monad to help them grow their TVL, expand their product surface, and unlock the integrations that make each one more valuable than it could be in isolation.</p><p>A core pillar of this role is plugging real-world assets into DeFi. You'll connect tokenized asset issuers - treasuries, credit, fund products - with the lending protocols, yield vaults, and liquidity infrastructure on Monad that can make those assets productive onchain. You've probably already done some version of this. You know how RWA looping strategies work, how collateral gets structured in lending markets, and how to get institutional capital comfortable deploying into DeFi.</p><p>This role reports to the VP of Go-to-Market and sits at the center of Monad's ecosystem strategy. You'll be the person protocol teams call when they want to grow — and you'll have the Foundation's resources and network to help them make it happen.</p><p></p><h4><strong>What You Will Do</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Own protocol growth end-to-end.</strong> Build tailored growth plans with DeFi protocols on Monad - collaborating on liquidity incentive and co-incentive campaign structures, identifying missing integrations, and tracking TVL and volume against targets. You're not handing protocols off after they launch; you're accountable for their success.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Build the RWA x DeFi flywheel.</strong> Source and manage relationships with tokenized asset issuers and connect them with the right lending protocols, yield vaults, and stablecoin infrastructure on Monad. Design the looping strategies and collateral structures that make RWAs composable and yield-generating onchain - not just listed.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Connect the dots across the ecosystem.</strong> Identify cross-protocol opportunities that create compounding value - pairing a lending market with a DEX for deeper liquidity loops, or connecting a yield vault with an RWA issuer to expand TVL. You'll see the ecosystem as a system, not a list of individual protocols.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Bring institutional capital onchain.</strong> Work with institutional LPs, asset managers, and capital allocators to identify opportunities to deploy into RWA-backed DeFi products on Monad. You're comfortable in both the DeFi-native and TradFi-adjacent worlds, and can speak credibly to both.</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4><strong>Who You Are</strong></h4><ul> <li><p>You've spent meaningful time inside DeFi collaborations or ecosystem growth -working with a Layer 1, Layer 2, or major protocol affiliated org - and you have a track record of growing TVL and user activity, not just signing deals</p></li> <li><p>You've worked with RWA protocols or tokenization platforms before and understand how tokenized assets move from issuance into productive DeFi yield - collateral structures, redemption mechanics, oracle dependencies and all</p></li> <li><p>You understand how lending markets, AMMs, yield vaults, and liquidity incentives interact - and you can diagnose why a protocol isn't growing and propose concrete solutions to fix it</p></li> <li><p>You've worked with institutional counterparts - asset managers, family offices, or similar - and know how to get capital comfortable with DeFi-native infrastructure</p></li> <li><p>You operate with high autonomy, hold yourself accountable to metrics, and treat protocol success as your own</p></li> </ul><p></p><h4><strong>Why Work with Us</strong></h4><ul> <li><p><strong>Challenging problems. </strong>You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.</p></li> <li><p><strong>Huge opportunity.</strong> 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.</p></li> <li><p><strong>The right team.</strong> You’ll be part of an exceptional and highly-motivated team</p></li> <li><p><strong>Culture</strong>. 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.</p></li> </ul> When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.

Workplace Operations

Monad Foundation

107 days ago

## Workplace Operations Associate 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 Role Monad Foundation is looking for someone to join us in Workplace Operations to own the day-to-day experience of our NYC office and support key moments across the employee lifecycle. This person ensures our physical workplace runs smoothly, our team feels supported, and in-office logistics are seamless for employees, candidates, and visitors alike. You’ll partner closely with Recruiting, IT, and the broader Operations team, serving as a central connector across workplace logistics, employee experience, and office coordination. This role requires strong communication and organizational skills, along with a natural “host mentality”—you are often the person who makes things feel thoughtful, smooth, and well taken care of. We’re looking for someone highly proactive and detail-oriented who thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment and can confidently manage multiple workstreams simultaneously. The office is in Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC. This is for an on-site (5 days/week in office) role. ### Who You Are - Resourceful, self-motivated, and comfortable taking ownership - A strong communicator who collaborates well across teams and functions - Adaptable and calm in a dynamic, startup environment - Highly organized with sharp attention to detail - A natural “host”—you enjoy making people feel welcome and supported in a shared space - Brings a positive, solutions-oriented mindset and approaches challenges with a proactive, can-do attitude - Comfortable with dogs (we have an office dog!) ### Requirements - 3+ years of experience in workplace operations, office management, employee experience, or similar operational roles - Proficient in workplace tools such as Google Workspace, Slack, and Notion - Strong time management skills with the ability to independently manage multiple priorities - Comfortable working on-site and handling in-person logistics daily - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience working with both internal teams and external vendors - Based in NYC and able to work from the office 5 days per week ### What You Will Do You’ll own aspects of the day-to-day experience and operations of our NYC workplace, while also supporting cross-departmental initiatives that enhance how our global team works together. #### Office & Vendor Operations *Help maintain a functional, well-run office environment through vendor coordination and workplace logistics.* - Serve as the primary point of contact for office vendors, including cleaning services and maintenance providers - Coordinate ad hoc office repairs and facilities-related needs - Manage office supply, kitchen, and amenities ordering to keep the workplace stocked and functional - Support general workplace logistics to ensure a smooth and comfortable office environment #### Workplace Experience & Employee Support *Support a thoughtful and well-run in-office experience for employees.* - Coordinate in-office employee visits, including desk assignments and access setup - Maintain the NYC office and workplace operations calendars and support general workplace and internal ops team documentation - Help manage culture and appreciation moments, including birthday gifts and small team experiences - Coordinate recurring in-office experiences such as monthly team lunches and other employee-focused moments - Assist with occasional outbound shipments and other in-office logistics #### Recruiting & Candidate Experience *Partner with Recruiting to help create a seamless and welcoming in-person candidate experience.* - Support logistics for on-site interviews - Welcome candidates to the office and help ensure a professional, friendly, and well-organized interview day #### Cross-Functional Support *Work closely with internal teams to ensure the office is ready for both everyday work and special initiatives.* - Collaborate with IT on conference room and in-office technology readiness (IT owns systems; you help ensure spaces are prepared and usable) - Partner with the broader Operations and leadership team to continuously improve employee experience and company operations - Support the Ecosystem team with logistics for in-office events ### Salary and Benefits Minimum full-time salary of $120,000 (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, domain expertise, and geographic location). Benefits for full-time employees may include medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% coverage for employees), paid time off, paid parental leave, and 11 company-observed holidays. ### Why Work with Us - **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. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Global Events

Monad Foundation

151 days ago

## About the Monad Foundation 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 Role The role of Global Events will own the strategy, planning, and execution of the Monad Foundation’s global event presence. You will build strong vendor and agency relationships, use data and insights to measure and improve outcomes, and create thoughtful, memorable experiences for a wide range of audiences including, but not limited to, builders and developers, community members, users, tokenholders, and Web2 and Web3 organizations. Your work will define the Monad event experience globally and ensure that every hosted or sponsored event consistently delivers a high bar for quality, cohesion, and impact. The ideal candidate is highly organized, creatively driven, and energized by bringing people together through flawless planning, project management, and execution. ### What You Will Do **Events Strategy and Execution** - Identify opportunities for long-term, recurring, and/or scalable events that are in support of Monad Foundation initiatives and priorities - Own the planning and execution of hosted and/or sponsored events, ranging from small gatherings to large scale conferences across domestic and international destinations - Define event goals, OKRs, success metrics, and conduct data-driven postmortems to continuously improve event impact and ROI **Budget and Process Management** - Demonstrate proficiency in financial management and prudent spend philosophy in order to establish and manage event budgets and timelines - Negotiate vendor contracts and manage financial reconciliation post-event - Manage relationships with vendors, agencies, and other external stakeholders **Stakeholder Collaboration** - Work alongside leadership and key internal stakeholders to deliver exceptional experiences that capture and maximize ROI based on department objectives - Assess and adapt to regional, cultural, and venue-specific requirements to ensure events are locally resonant and operationally sound **Operational Excellence and Execution** - Develop and maintain operational standards and playbooks to encourage consistent branding, elements, and ambiance across diverse event types - Maintain and champion a high degree of quality across all stages of event planning, production, and execution - Demonstrate resourcefulness in decision-making and driving events workstreams to completion, without compromising high standards ### Who You Are - Highly organized and detail-oriented - Comfortable owning projects independently while managing multiple priorities - Have a track record of resourceful decision-making and completion of workstreams - Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to collaborate across cultures and time zones - Creatively inclined with a strong eye for design and the ability to translate ideas into execution ### Requirements - Minimum 7+ years of significant event planning experience, including: - Ownership of complex events from conception to completion - Management of direction and execution of both small and large-scale, multi-day events - Comfortable working off-hours, being on-call, and adapting to flexible schedules as per event requirements - Ability to be onsite and the designated POC for events, with up to 30% travel required domestically and internationally - Experience with events across multiple geographic locations and time zones, including comfort with navigating cultural or language barriers - Exceptional command of time management, communication, project management, and prioritization - Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think quickly under pressure - Knowledge of fabrication, event technology, AV production, and digital integration ### Preferred - Experience building events within the Web3/crypto industry - Experience working within fast-paced startup environments ### Why Work with Us - **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. ### Salary and Benefits 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. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.

Korea Lead

Monad Foundation

172 days ago

## About the Monad Foundation 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 Role The Monad Foundation is looking for a **Korea Lead** to establish Monad as the leading blockchain in South Korea by institutional and retail adoption. South Korea is one of the most dynamic and active blockchain markets globally, with a highly engaged investor community. You’ll own the overall strategy for the South Korean market, driving business development, strategic relationships, and ecosystem growth. You will serve as Monad Foundation’s key representative to major Korean enterprises and institutions, covering use cases such as payments, tokenization/RWA, and capital markets. ## What You Will Do - Develop and execute market strategies to establish Monad as an industry leader in the South Korean market among institutional and retail investors. - Lead business development efforts by identifying, negotiating, and closing strategic deals that drive capital inflows and user adoption. - Build and nurture relationships with key ecosystem players including VCs, exchanges, media, and developer communities to expand Monad’s presence and mindshare. - Stay on top of the evolving South Korean regulatory landscape and trends to identify high-impact opportunities to position Monad as an industry leader and first-mover. - Facilitate the entry of global ecosystem startups into the South Korean market by providing strategic guidance, local insights, and connections. ## Who You Are - 5+ years of business development experience, including 3+ years in blockchain, digital assets, or Web3 startups. - Deep understanding of the South Korean market and proven ability to engage retail and institutional investors. - Established network across local Web3 startups, institutions, and enterprises. - Self-starter who takes ownership of initiatives from ideation to execution. - Native-level fluency in both Korean and English (written and verbal). ## Nice to Have - Existing relationships with South Korean financial institutions that are exploring or actively involved in Web3 initiatives. - Entrepreneurial experience across the full startup lifecycle, including fundraising, product launches, and operations. - Deep technical understanding of blockchains. ## Location - The role is based in South Korea. ## Why Work with Us - **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. ## Salary and Benefits 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. *When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.*

Protocol Security Engineer

Monad Foundation

177 days ago

## The Monad Foundation 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 Role We are looking for a **Senior Security Engineer** who will be responsible for safeguarding Monad Protocol codebases with a focus on the Execution and Consensus Clients. You bring expertise in preventative techniques as well as vulnerability detection and remediation. You will have advanced technical skills and complementary people skills to educate and disseminate sound practices to the org and ecosystem alike. ### What You Will Do * **Protocol Improvement:** Contribute to Monad protocol improvement proposals emphasizing security considerations. * **Security Controls:** Propose and implement security controls related to the Monad consensus and execution clients. * **Bug Bounty:** Participate in triage and assist with patch reviews for remediations. * **R&D:** Stay up to date with the latest EVM research and conduct your own analysis on the Monad protocol (block and transaction patterns, node resource consumption, hardening strategies, etc.). * **Code Review and Testing:** Perform in-house audits of consensus / execution client releases using both manual and automated methods such as code review, extending fuzzing suites, and static analysis. * **Thought Leadership:** Be an advocate for Monad Foundation priorities when working with core protocol developers and validator operators. Share findings, reports, and practices with the broader Monad Ecosystem. ### Who You Are * **Base EVM Layer L1/L2 Expertise:** Experience reviewing consensus clients, execution clients, and related codebases. * **Threat Prevention:** Through threat modeling, risk assessments, and secure design reviews. * **Invariant / Property-Based Testing:** Proficient in using dynamic, symbolic, or formal methods. * **C++ and Rust Proficiency:** Experience auditing Rust and C++ codebases in L1 and L2 base layer components. * **Proven Track Record:** Of finding critical vulnerabilities through auditing, bug bounties, or red teaming. Public write-ups, CVEs, or contributions to protocol hardening. ### Nice to Have * **Tool Development:** Experience building or extending security-focused tools (e.g., Slither detectors, static analyzers, etc.) * **Leadership and Mentoring:** Direct experience leading or coaching team members, guiding junior/intermediate teammates to senior levels. * **Talks and Publications:** Active knowledge sharing in the web3 security community and broader ecosystem. ### Why Work with Us * **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. ### Salary and Benefits 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. *When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.*

Technical Program Manager

Monad Foundation

177 days ago

## The Monad Foundation 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 Role The Monad Foundation is looking for a **Technical Program Manager** to own and orchestrate the delivery of complex and cross-functional initiatives. This role drives organizational clarity, ensures alignment across priorities, and coordinates program movement from inception to launch. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with exceptional organizational and communication skills, enabling fast, coordinated delivery in a rapidly evolving blockchain environment. ### What You Will Do * Collaborate with leadership to identify key priorities, and shepherd and spearhead the delivery of special projects and initiatives. * Establish and track metrics that offer insight into progress, completion, and measures of success. * Develop a deep understanding of the Monad Foundation organizational structure to manage project timelines, resources, and team dependencies to ensure on-time delivery of critical launches. * Work cross-functionally and drive internal alignment across the organization, developing understanding and alignment across business (ecosystem, business development, founder community), operational (events, design, recruiting), and technical (engineering, quant, security) teams to realize critical roadmap deliverables. * Facilitate requisite communication and coordination. * Manage meetings and discussions. * Escalate blockers and drive decision-making and resolutions. ### Who You Are * 7+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or a similar cross-collaborative role at a technology start-up. * A strong interest and desire to learn about blockchain technology, the crypto industry and its landscape. * Possess technical competency, strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to make data-driven decisions. * Experience in leadership and/or management with technical teams and diverse stakeholders. * Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts clearly and persuasively. * Able to navigate, evaluate, and implement processes, frameworks, and approaches for maximal efficiency. ### Why Work with Us * **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. ### Salary and Benefits 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. When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.