Partnerships Lead - Banking & Capital Markets, EMEA

Chainlink Labs; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A blockchain technology company is seeking a Partnerships Lead for EMEA to drive commercial opportunities through strategic partnerships. Candidates should have over 7 years of experience in the banking and capital markets industry and a passion for bringing traditional finance on-chain. This remote position offers a dynamic environment with a focus on developing mutual revenue growth.

Qualifications

• 7+ years total experience with a minimum of 5+ years in banking or capital markets.
• Experience working in a startup or fintech environment.
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Deep focus on signing mutually exclusive deals with partners.
• Develop and execute joint go-to-market strategies.
• Manage day to day relationships with key decision makers.

Skills

Capital markets experience

Partnerships expertise

Strong relationship management

Understanding of traditional finance

Job description

About Us

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets on-chain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked among Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology, Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more at chain.link or chainlinklabs.com.

About The Role

We are seeking a partnerships lead for EMEA. You will help us drive commercial opportunities through our partners supporting our capital markets customers. You will bring a strong blend of capital markets experience, partnerships expertise and a strong passion for Web3/ Tokenisation

Your Impact

• Partner Acquisition: Deep focus on signing mutually exclusive deals with our highest priority partners
• Joint Business Development: Developing and executing joint go-to-market strategies and business plans to drive mutual revenue growth and brand visibility.
• Day to day partner management of priority partners servicing the tokenization and TradFi operations workflows, including developing and cultivating deep relationships with key decision makers to create clear value alignment and mutually beneficial value propositions
• Embed Chainlink technology + products in partner operationalising flows and technology stacks
• Drive early-stage pipeline generation at scale through targeted discovery and qualification based on understanding of entity needs

Requirements

• 7+ years total experience, with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in banking and capital markets industry, institutional finance, business development, partnerships or related fields, Experience working in a startup/fintech or fast-paced environment with evidence of converting high work ethic into stand out personal and team results
• Strong relationship management ability to identify, build, nurture and maintain strong relationships with institutional clients and partners
• A passion for bringing traditional finance on-chain

Preferred Requirements

• Proficiency in project management and the ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously
• Tokenization industry expertise - have a strong understanding of the Institutional RWA landscape and/or digital asset management, including an understanding of potential barriers to scale
• Strong experience selling solutions to Custodians, Fund Administrators, and other partners in the tokenized asset mobility value chain
• Multilingual

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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