India Lead

Monad Labs is the team building Monad, the performant and parallel EVM Layer-1 blockchain. We are a team of systems engineers and community builders who are on a mission to help crypto eat the world. After recently raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team.

The Role

The Ecosystem team accelerates the growth of the Monad ecosystem by organizing initiatives that educate and elevate ambitious dapp builders. A few examples of initiatives include the Monad Madness pitch competition, the Mach One accelerator, and the Monad 101 workshop series.

As India Lead, you will plan and execute strategies to raise Monad’s presence in the local market. This will include identifying and onboarding the most competitive project builders and developers in the region (from early stage to established teams) across the verticals, growing the regional retail community base, and evangelizing local independent developers to access Monad’s technology easily. You will leverage your existing industry network and maintain strong relationships with them to excel at this given role. This role will require you to become creative and rely on your intuition to come up with right solutions at unexpected situations. 

What You Will Do

• Lead ecosystem efforts in India including, but not limited to:
  • Represent Monad at conferences and industry events for brand visibility and develop new relationships
  • Create and nurture strong relationships with web3 projects, industry influencers, and VCs
  • Develop and deliver programs to promote Monad’s value proposition
  • Establish performance tracking and reporting on the status and impact of initiatives, identifying areas for improvement and optimization
• Represent Monad at conferences and industry events for brand visibility and develop new relationships
• Create and nurture strong relationships with web3 projects, industry influencers, and VCs
• Develop and deliver programs to promote Monad’s value proposition
• Establish performance tracking and reporting on the status and impact of initiatives, identifying areas for improvement and optimization

Who You Are

• You are multilingual with professional fluency in English and Hindi
• You have at least 4 years of experience in a strategic role that touches several of: business and ecosystem development, marketing, and community building 
• You’re crypto-native with at least 4 years of crypto-industry work experience, and have a built up a strong network of key industry contacts
• Fluidly wearing the strategy and execution hats on major initiatives 
• Have a demonstrated track record of end-to-end ownership of global initiatives from conception to implementation
• You hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technical or business-focused field
• You are based in India

Personal Attributes

• Strategic thinking and execution
• Results-driven mentality; a doer
• Resourcefulness and independence
• Ambition; desire to make a massive impact
• Strong organizational skills
• High EQ
• Low ego
• Enthusiasm for Monad’s mission of helping decentralization scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication

Nice to Have

• Experience in a related role at a prominent L1 or L2 blockchain company

Why Work with Us

• Huge opportunity. EVM is ubiquitous but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow. Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto.
• The right team. Pushing the performance limits of blockchain requires unique low-latency engineering talent. Our team has nearly ten years of experience staying at the top of brutally efficient high-frequency trading markets.
• Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of our team, you’ll help continue to shape our culture.
• Impactful work. Your work will be deeply impactful, making decentralized computation orders of magnitude cheaper and more plentiful, ultimately paving the way for new dapps that improve many people’s lives.
• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.
• Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures, and from leaders in the space like Cobie. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You’ll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.