Director of Business Development, Financial Institutions

The role

You will build the Financial Institutions vertical for the Monad Foundation. You will manage relationships with banks, exchanges, and market infrastructure providers while owning the operational backbone of institutional communications.

What you will do

• Build and manage a structured pipeline of target financial institutions
• Develop trust-based relationships with senior decision-makers at major financial institutions
• Cultivate internal champions within target institutions
• Develop and execute an advisor and influencer strategy
• Maintain a view of institutions evaluating competing chains and infrastructure
• Build Monad's presence in industry forums, working groups, and bodies
• Develop and maintain Monad's institutional narrative
• Own the operational cadence of institutional communications
• Monitor sentiment across institutional channels
• Manage the logistics and follow-through of institutional relationships

Required qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in financial institution partnerships, institutional BD, management consulting with a financial services focus, or a crypto infrastructure company
• Direct exposure to how large financial institutions evaluate, procure, and adopt new technology infrastructure
• Exceptional written communication
• Familiarity with token markets and institutional investor behavior
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams with different audiences and timelines simultaneously
• Analytical ability to track competitive dynamics and synthesize institutional feedback

Nice to have

• Existing relationships within financial institutions, consulting firms, or the broader institutional crypto ecosystem

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 believe the Monad blockchain will help decentralized apps eat the world.