Trading Lead

Monad Foundation

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About The Position

The Monad Foundation is hiring a senior individual contributor to bring leading trading applications—including perps and spot DEXs, aggregators, trading terminals, and bots—to the Monad network. The role owns relationships with trading teams from initial conversations through launch and ongoing success, and serves as a public voice for trading on Monad through content, interviews, podcasts, and speaking engagements.

The Trading Lead works across the Monad Foundation’s ecosystem, DeFi, marketing, and events teams, and coordinates technical onboarding with core contributors. The position also brings market intelligence into ecosystem planning and develops data-grounded commercial proposals. Monad Foundation is a core contributor to the Monad protocol, and this role supports builders on the network as one of many ecosystem participants.

Requirements

• Be an active trader or have held a non-quant role, such as business development, product, or growth, at a trading protocol; a generalist business development background alone does not meet the bar.
• Have a deep network among traders and trading teams who choose where to build and trade.
• Be fluent in onchain trading mechanics, including AMMs, orderbooks, execution quality, MEV, and liquidity incentives.
• Be comfortable modeling incentive-program retention, explaining trading-team revenue drivers, and engaging with engineers and quants on quantitative topics.
• Communicate strongly in writing, on stage, and in one-on-one conversations with founders.
• Demonstrate high ownership, trustworthiness, and follow-through.

Nice To Haves

• Relationships with VCs and accelerators that fund trading teams.
• Access to specialized networks such as launchpads, perps, prediction markets, and memecoin trading.
• Relationships with market makers.

Responsibilities

• Bring leading trading applications, including perps and spot DEXs, aggregators, trading terminals, and bots, to the Monad network.
• Build and own a pipeline of trading startups from first contact through launch, working with the VCs and accelerators funding them.
• Own onboarding, launch, and post-launch success, including coordinating technical onboarding with core contributors, scoping liquidity and ecosystem incentive programs, managing launch logistics, and tracking volume and retention.
• Represent trading on the Monad network publicly through content, interviews, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
• Gather market intelligence on trader needs, competing chains, and funded sub-verticals, and turn it into input for ecosystem priorities.
• Build commercial proposals using metrics such as cost per retained user, sustained volume after incentives taper, and impact on network activity.
• Make trading a priority across Monad Foundation marketing, events, and ecosystem programs.

Benefits

• Autonomy and impact while working on challenging, technically demanding problems.
• Opportunity to contribute to Monad’s stated goal of combining EVM portability with performance to support global on-chain finance.
• Work with an exceptional, highly motivated team.
• A collaborative, low-ego culture focused on high-quality output.
• A broader ecosystem supported by leading investors, builders, and long-term contributors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed