Partnerships, Capital Markets
Tempo enables high-throughput stablecoin payments through a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain featuring dedicated payment lanes, stablecoin-native gas fees, and sub-second finality.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Tempo
Tempo is a Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for stablecoin payments and real-world financial transactions. Built using the Reth SDK, Tempo features dedicated payment lanes that guarantee blockspace for payment transactions regardless of network congestion, stablecoin-native gas fees allowing users to pay transaction costs in any USD-denominated stablecoin, and Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus achieving approximately 0.5-second finality. The blockchain includes a native decentralized exchange optimized for stablecoins, structured memo fields for reconciliation against enterprise systems, and protocol-level compliance features through the TIP-403 Policy Registry. Tempo was incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, with design input from global partners including Anthropic, Deutsche Bank, OpenAI, Shopify, Visa, and Standard Chartered. The blockchain launched its public testnet in December 2025, operating with an initial set of validators before transitioning to a permissionless validator model. Tempo raised $500 million in Series A funding at a $5 billion valuation in October 2025, led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks with participation from Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, and SV Angel.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
In this role, you will build a capital markets strategy for real-world assets and stablecoins. You will source yield opportunities, bring suitable assets onchain, structure products with risk protection and liquidity, develop institutional borrowing demand, guide customer integrations, shape go-to-market priorities, create launch playbooks, and represent the work externally.
Requirements
- Deep experience in capital markets, structured credit, private credit, fixed income, securitization, insurance, or an adjacent financial product role.
- Track record of structuring and launching financial products from opportunity identification and risk analysis through distribution and execution.
- Strong understanding of insurance, guarantees, credit enhancement, collateral, reserves, and other risk-transfer structures.
- Strong command of asset-liability matching, redemption design, duration, secondary-market liquidity, and stress scenarios.
- Experience sourcing capital or borrow demand and building relationships with institutional borrowers, lenders, and allocators.
- Experience bringing traditional financial assets or credit products onchain, or deep experience with blockchain and adjacent fintech infrastructure.
- Track record of sourcing and scaling partnerships with enterprises and high-growth startups.
- Ability to navigate complex organizations and align technical and business stakeholders.
- Excellent judgment in sourcing, evaluating, and prioritizing high-impact opportunities.
- Ability to work closely with legal, compliance, risk, finance, product, and engineering teams.
- Experience with B2B or developer-adjacent products such as APIs, dashboards, or partner platforms.
- High-energy, proactive, and execution-driven.
- Proficiency in understanding and communicating technical concepts.
- Strong communication, organization, and relationship management skills.
- Commercial creativity and analytical rigor with the ability to balance yield, risk, liquidity, and distribution.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to learn from partners and the ecosystem.
- Hands-on approach to supporting partner success.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive commercial partnership strategy across onchain capital markets and real-world assets.
- Build relationships with asset originators, asset managers, banks, lenders, insurers, broker-dealers, institutional borrowers, and other capital markets participants.
- Source and evaluate traditional financial assets and yield opportunities for onchain use.
- Structure financial products and partnerships with insurance, guarantees, credit enhancement, reserves, and other risk-transfer mechanisms.
- Develop liquidity strategies across issuance, redemption, duration, cash-flow matching, secondary liquidity, and market stress.
- Build relationships with institutional borrowers and source durable institutional onchain borrow demand.
- Serve as a consultative technical design partner for customer product integrations.
- Represent partner needs internally and shape go-to-market priorities and feedback loops.
- Develop scalable playbooks for onboarding, product launches, and partner success.
- Represent Tempo externally at conferences, industry forums, and ecosystem events.
