DeFi Success Lead

About Monad Foundation

The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders 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: DeFi Success Lead

DeFi on Monad is live, and protocols are deploying. Now, the real work begins. We're seeking a DeFi Success Lead to own Monad Foundation’s strategy for supporting the growth of Monad's DeFi ecosystem – focusing not just on what lands on the chain, but how deeply it integrates. You will work directly with protocols building on Monad to help them grow their TVL, expand their product surface, and unlock valuable integrations.

A core pillar of this role involves plugging real-world assets (RWA) into DeFi. You'll connect tokenized asset issuers – covering treasuries, credit, and fund products – with the lending protocols, yield vaults, and liquidity infrastructure on Monad that can make these assets productive onchain. You should have prior experience with RWA looping strategies, collateral structuring in lending markets, and making institutional capital comfortable deploying into DeFi.

This role reports to the VP of Go-to-Market and is central to Monad's ecosystem strategy. You will be the primary contact for protocol teams seeking growth, leveraging the Foundation's resources and network to facilitate their success.

What You Will Do

• Own protocol growth end-to-end: Build tailored growth plans with DeFi protocols on Monad, collaborating on liquidity incentive and co-incentive campaign structures, identifying missing integrations, and tracking TVL and volume against targets. You are accountable for protocol success post-launch.
• Build the RWA x DeFi flywheel: Source and manage relationships with tokenized asset issuers, connecting them with appropriate lending protocols, yield vaults, and stablecoin infrastructure on Monad. Design looping strategies and collateral structures to make RWAs composable and yield-generating onchain.
• Connect the dots across the ecosystem: Identify cross-protocol opportunities that create compounding value, such as pairing a lending market with a DEX for deeper liquidity loops, or connecting a yield vault with an RWA issuer to expand TVL. You will view the ecosystem as a synergistic system.
• Bring institutional capital onchain: Work with institutional LPs, asset managers, and capital allocators to identify deployment opportunities in RWA-backed DeFi products on Monad. You will be comfortable navigating both DeFi-native and TradFi-adjacent environments.

Who You Are

• You have significant experience in DeFi collaborations or ecosystem growth, ideally with a Layer 1, Layer 2, or major protocol-affiliated organization, and a proven track record of growing TVL and user activity, beyond just signing deals.
• You have worked with RWA protocols or tokenization platforms, understanding how tokenized assets move from issuance into productive DeFi yield, including collateral structures, redemption mechanics, and oracle dependencies.
• You understand the interaction between lending markets, AMMs, yield vaults, and liquidity incentives, enabling you to diagnose growth challenges and propose concrete solutions.
• You have experience with institutional counterparts (asset managers, family offices) and know how to onboard their capital into DeFi-native infrastructure.
• You operate with high autonomy, are accountable to metrics, and treat protocol success as your own.

Why Work with Us

• Challenging problems: You’ll tackle extremely challenging problems with massive impact in the decentralized space.
• Huge opportunity: Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) within the ubiquitous EVM standard, which is 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 are a lean team united by collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output, working towards ambitious goals. As an early member, you’ll help shape our culture.

Key skills/competency

• DeFi Ecosystem Development
• Real-World Assets (RWA)
• TVL Growth
• Protocol Partnerships
• Institutional Capital
• Blockchain Strategy
• EVM Layer 1
• Liquidity Incentives
• Tokenization
• Go-to-Market