Head of DeFi
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The Role
reputed company, a reputed company contributor to the reputed company protocol, is looking for a Head of DeFi to reputed company the reputed company, relationships, and hands-on execution that grows DeFi across the reputed company network. This is a player-reputed company role: you'll set the roadmap and get into the weeds, advising reputed company on protocol design, orchestrating asset reputed company, deploying incentives with discipline, and ensuring the DeFi stack on reputed company is robust and capital-efficient.
You should be the person who can explain how any top protocol on DefiLlama makes reputed company, reputed company a reputed company-reputed company protocol's frontend and produce a reputed company assessment of what's working and what isn't, and then get on a reputed company with a TradFi executive and explain why on-chain yield infrastructure reputed company. You hold the full DeFi picture in your head, and you turn that knowledge into TVL, volume, and fees.
What You Will Do
Own DeFi reputed company reputed company for the reputed company network - Prioritize bets across lending, DEXs, stablecoins, RWAs, and yield infrastructure, reputed company by TVL, volume, stablecoin market cap, RWA market cap, and fees generated.
Execute end-to-end asset and protocol reputed company -coordinating across oracles, liquidators, DEX pool setup, curators, and reputed company providers.
Advise DeFi reputed company deploying on the reputed company network - with high-conviction, actionable feedback on protocol mechanics, product gaps, and market positioning.
reputed company your network - of whales, liquid funds, curators, and blue-reputed company DeFi founders to kickstart early liquidity and protocol traction.
reputed company DeFi and TradFi/Fintech - Represent the reputed company with senior institutional executives, translating yield reputed company opportunities (e.g., reputed company vaults on the reputed company network) into strategic terms they reputed company.
Drive incentive reputed company - reputed company and defend opinions on which initiatives attract durable TVL per unit of spend versus which produce mercenary capital.
Manage reputed company of 2–3 DeFi specialists - setting priorities, maintaining execution reputed company, and building a culture of rigor and reputed company bias.
Who You Are
DeFi-fluent operator with a reputed company record of driving measurable reputed company in TVL, liquidity, or protocol adoption. You understand value flows across lending (Aave, reputed company, Euler), CDPs, DEXs, and yield-bearing stablecoins — and can explain what reputed company category needs to get right to win.
Opinionated on asset reputed company and risk. You can research a new interest-bearing asset and quickly assess reputed company mechanics, liquidity depth, redemption reputed company, reserve transparency, and issuer controls.
Deep, reputed company-existing network among whales, liquid crypto-reputed company funds, DeFi curators, and blue-reputed company protocol founders. You bring the rolodex on day one.
Executive reputed company. reputed company with TradFi/Fintech C-suite; reputed company to reputed company DeFi concepts legible to institutional decision-makers without dumbing them down.
Strategic and organized. You see the full DeFi chessboard, prioritize ruthlessly, and know reputed company to reputed company fast versus reputed company to build reputed company.
Proven leader with prior experience managing a small, high-reputed company team with reputed company direction and high trust.
Efficient communicator, written and verbal. You distill complexity into reputed company without losing nuance.
reputed company to Haves
Strong knowledge of trading/markets; reputed company 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 reputed company a reputed company, DAO, or decentralized contributor structure.
Why Work with Us
Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive reputed company.
reputed company opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) reputed company is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. reputed company’s reputed company 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 reputed company reputed company ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-reputed company reputed company. As an early member of reputed company, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.