Trading Lead

Monad Foundation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Monad Foundation in New York seeks a senior business development professional to lead onboarding of trading teams to the Monad network. You will own the end-to-end relationship from first call through launch and beyond, and you will be a public voice for trading on podcasts, panels, and long-form content.

You will work across ecosystem, DeFi, marketing, and events, building pipelines with VCs and accelerators, and translating market insights into ecosystem priorities while driving value for

Qualifications

• Trading-native background or active trading experience.
• Deeply networked with traders and trading teams.
• Fluent understanding of onchain trading mechanics such as AMMs, orderbooks, MEV, and liquidity incentives.
• Comfortable modeling incentives and communicating revenue drivers to engineers and quants.
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to present to founders and partners.
• High ownership, trustworthy, and decisive execution.

Responsibilities

• Bring leading trading applications to Monad: perps, spot DEXs, aggregators, terminals, bots.
• Build and own a pipeline of top trading startups from first contact to launch.
• Own onboarding, launch, and post-launch success with core contributors.
• Be a public voice for trading on Monad through content and public appearances.
• Translate market needs into ecosystem priorities and proposals.
• Develop commercially grounded proposals with measurable impact on activity.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across marketing, events, and ecosystem programs.

Skills

Trading native

Networked with traders

Onchain trading mechanics

Numbers mindset

Strong communicator

High ownership

Job description

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 network was built for high frequency: 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality, full EVM compatibility. Trading is the use case that tests that claim hardest, and you'll be the person who brings the best trading teams to build on it.

You'll sit in the room when a perps team, a DEX, or a trading terminal decides which chain to deploy on. You'll own the relationship from first call through launch and beyond, and you'll be a public voice for trading on the Monad network on podcasts, panels, and in long-form content.

This is a senior individual contributor role with end to end ownership. You'll work across ecosystem, defi, marketing, and events at Monad Foundation, and alongside core contributors on technical onboarding. Monad Foundation is a core contributor to the Monad protocol, and this role supports builders on the network as one of many ecosystem participants.

What You'll Do

• Bring leading trading applications to the Monad network: perps and spot DEXs, aggregators, trading terminals, and bots. You'll run the conversations where a trading team decides which chain to build on.

• Build and own a pipeline of top trading startups from first contact through launch on the Monad network, working closely with the VCs and accelerators funding them.

• Own onboarding, launch, and post-launch success: coordinate technical onboarding with core contributors, scope liquidity and ecosystem incentive programs, run launch logistics, and track volume and retention after go-live.

• Be a public voice for trading on the Monad network. Shape the narrative through content, interviews, podcasts, and speaking slots.

• Bring market intelligence back in: what traders want, where competing chains are winning, which sub verticals are getting funded. Turn it into input for ecosystem priorities.

• Build commercial proposals grounded in numbers: cost per retained user, volume sustained after incentives taper, and impact on network activity.

• Make trading a priority across Monad Foundation's work: marketing, events, and ecosystem programs.
  

Who You Are

• Trading-native. You're an active trader, or you've held a non-quant role (BD, product, growth) at a trading protocol. A generalist BD background alone doesn't meet the bar.

• Deeply networked among traders and trading teams, the people who actually choose where to build and trade.

• Fluent in onchain trading mechanics: AMMs, orderbooks, execution quality, MEV, and liquidity incentives.

• Comfortable with numbers. You can model whether an incentive program retains volume after it ends, explain a trading team's revenue drivers, and hold your own with engineers and quants.

• A strong communicator on paper, on stage, and in 1:1 conversations with founders.

• High ownership, trustworthy, and you follow through.

Nice-to-Haves

• Relationships with VCs and accelerators funding trading teams.

• Access to specialized subnetworks: launchpads, perps, prediction markets, memecoin trading.

• Relationships with market makers (a bonus; this area is already well covered).

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.