Head of DeFi

The role

The Head of DeFi will lead strategy, relationships, and execution to grow DeFi across the Monad network. This player-coach role involves setting the roadmap, advising builders, and managing a team of 2–3 specialists.

What you will do

• Own DeFi growth strategy for the Monad network.
• Execute end-to-end asset and protocol onboarding.
• Advise DeFi builders deploying on the Monad network.
• Activate a network of liquid funds, curators, and blue-chip DeFi founders.
• Bridge DeFi and TradFi/Fintech by representing the Foundation with senior institutional executives.
• Drive incentive strategy.
• Manage a team of 2–3 DeFi specialists.

Required qualifications

• Track record of driving measurable growth in TVL, liquidity, or protocol adoption.
• Understanding of value flows across lending, CDPs, DEXs, and yield-bearing stablecoins.
• Ability to research and assess interest-bearing assets, bridging mechanics, liquidity depth, redemption windows, reserve transparency, and issuer controls.
• Pre-existing network among liquid crypto-native funds, DeFi curators, and blue-chip protocol founders.
• Executive presence credible with TradFi/Fintech C-suite.
• Strategic and organized.
• Proven leadership and management experience running a small, high-output team.
• Efficient written and verbal communicator.

Nice to have

• 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.

Benefits

• Challenging problems with autonomy and impact.
• Endless Opportunity for Impact.
• Part of a world class team.
• Culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output.

About the company

The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders on a mission to grow the impact of decentralized tech. They are a core contributor to the Monad protocol, a performant and parallel EVM Layer 1.