Trading Lead

Skills

About the Role

You'll bring the best trading teams (perps and spot DEXs, aggregators, trading terminals and bots) to build on the Monad network, running the conversations where they choose a chain. You'll own relationships from first call through launch and beyond, build a pipeline of top trading startups alongside VCs and accelerators, coordinate technical onboarding with core contributors, scope liquidity and incentive programs, and track volume and retention after go-live. You'll be a public voice for trading on Monad through content, podcasts and panels, feed market intelligence back into ecosystem priorities, build numbers-driven commercial proposals, and make trading a priority across marketing, events and ecosystem programs. This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership.

Requirements

• Trading-native: active trader or held a non-quant role (BD, product, growth) at a trading protocol
• Deeply networked among traders and trading teams
• Fluent in onchain trading mechanics: AMMs, orderbooks, execution quality, MEV, and liquidity incentives
• Comfortable with numbers and modeling incentive programs
• Strong communicator in writing, on stage, and 1:1 with founders
• High ownership, trustworthy, and follows through

Responsibilities

• Bring leading trading applications to the Monad network
• Build and own a pipeline of top trading startups from first contact through launch
• Coordinate technical onboarding with core contributors
• Scope liquidity and ecosystem incentive programs
• Run launch logistics and track volume and retention after go-live
• Act as a public voice for trading on Monad through content, interviews, podcasts and speaking slots
• Bring market intelligence back to inform ecosystem priorities
• Build commercial proposals grounded in numbers
• Make trading a priority across marketing, events and ecosystem programs