Trading Lead for DeFi & Monad Network

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

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