Protocol Director
Galaxy Digital is a financial services and investment management firm specializing in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. Serving primarily institutional clients, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services including trading, asset management, investment banking, and data center infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital is a diversified financial services and investment management firm focused on the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. The company's operations are structured across three primary business lines: Global Markets, Asset Management & Infrastructure, and Data Centers. The Global Markets division provides institutional access to a full suite of digital asset products and services, including OTC trading, derivatives, and investment banking. The Asset Management & Infrastructure arm offers a wide range of investment strategies such as ETFs, hedge funds, and venture capital, alongside essential blockchain services like staking, tokenization, and custody solutions. The Data Centers business focuses on bitcoin mining and is expanding into AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Galaxy serves a diverse clientele, from institutional investors and trading firms to Web3 founders and miners, and also provides extensive educational resources, research, and market insights through its Digital Assets Academy and various podcasts.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead protocol teams and set the technical direction for our blockchain infrastructure. You will guide engineers through complex protocol challenges, establish operating rhythms, manage headcount and performance, shape the protocol strategy, evaluate new protocol developments, coordinate with cross functional teams, support client and commercial work, and translate technical depth into clear guidance for engineers and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Demonstrated protocol depth across at least two of Ethereum Solana or Chainlink
- A track record managing technical teams
- Experience operating in a fast moving high stakes environment where protocol decisions have real business and client consequences
- Strong technical communication ability to explain protocol problems to engineers clients and executives
- Operational fluency running the logistics of a multi team function including capacity planning sequencing on call incident response and hiring
- High agency low ego with a clear mandate
- Genuine interest in where the protocol landscape is heading
Responsibilities
- Lead the protocol teams
- Manage the leads of the validators Solana and Chainlink teams and develop them as technical leaders
- Provide protocol level technical guidance to teams
- Set a consistent operating rhythm across the three teams planning reviews incident response and continuous improvement
- Own headcount health retention and performance within your scope
- Own protocol strategy
- Develop and maintain a forward looking view across the protocols the business participates in
- Be the connective tissue between protocol evolution and the engineering teams that have to respond to it
- Advise the Head of Blockchain Engineering and broader leadership on protocol level risk opportunity and emerging areas worth pursuing
- Identify where emerging protocol developments represent material opportunities or threats for the business
- Operate the function
- Hold the operational picture across the three teams who is on what what is at risk what is blocked what is shipping
- Make staffing and sequencing calls within your scope
- Run the cadences and rituals that keep the function coherent without adding bureaucratic overhead
- Coordinate across DIS client facing teams and engagement leads to ensure the protocol function is pointed at the highest leverage work
- Support client and commercial work
- Step into client conversations where protocol expertise at leadership level is needed
- Represent the protocol function in commercial discussions
- Translate protocol complexity into clarity for non technical stakeholders internally and externally
Benefits
- Health benefits for employees and their dependents
- Headspace coaching sessions
- Free daily snacks in office
- Paid time off