Head of Partnerships
Stargate enables cross-chain asset transfers across multiple blockchains using unified liquidity pools and instant guaranteed finality.
Projects
About Stargate
Stargate helps DeFi users transfer assets between blockchains by providing cross-chain liquidity pools that eliminate wrapped tokens. With it, users can swap native assets across chains in single transactions, provide liquidity to earn protocol rewards, and access unified pools across multiple networks. Stargate ensures instant transaction finality through LayerZero's omnichain messaging. In August 2025, LayerZero acquired Stargate.
Skills
About the Role
You will draft compelling partnership proposals, lead efforts to drive product adoption with fintech platforms and crypto protocols, and build and maintain strategic partnerships with exchanges and DeFi projects. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and marketing teams to scope and deliver integrations, and guide integration projects from ideation through execution.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in partnership development, business development, or a similar role in fintech, crypto, or DeFi
- Proven track record of driving partnerships, integrations, and adoption with financial institutions or crypto protocols
- Strong understanding of decentralized finance, blockchain technology, and the broader crypto ecosystem
- Ability to manage technical and non-technical stakeholders and lead cross-team integration projects
- Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
Responsibilities
- Draft compelling partnership proposals
- Drive product adoption with fintech platforms and crypto protocols
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with crypto protocols, fintech platforms, exchanges, and DeFi projects
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and marketing teams to identify and deliver integration opportunities
- Lead integration projects from ideation to execution
