Trading Lead

As a Trading Lead at Monad Foundation, you bring the best trading teams to build on the Monad blockchain-a performant and parallel EVM Layer 1 built for high frequency trading with 10,000 TPS, sub-second finality, and full EVM compatibility. You own relationships from first call through launch and beyond, and serve as a public voice for trading on Monad across podcasts, panels, and long-form content. This is a senior individual contributor role with end-to-end ownership, working across ecosystem, DeFi, marketing, and events at Monad Foundation.

What you'll do

• Bring leading trading applications to the Monad network, including perps and spot DEXs, aggregators, trading terminals, and bots. You'll run the conversations where trading teams decide which chain to build on.
• Build and own a pipeline of top trading startups from first contact through launch on Monad, working closely with the VCs and accelerators funding them.
• Own onboarding, launch, and post-launch success by coordinating technical onboarding with core contributors, scoping liquidity and ecosystem incentive programs, running launch logistics, and tracking volume and retention after go-live.
• Be a public voice for trading on the Monad network through content, interviews, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
• Bring market intelligence back in by understanding what traders want, where competing chains are winning, and which sub-verticals are getting funded. Turn it into input for ecosystem priorities.
• Build commercial proposals grounded in numbers, including cost per retained user, volume sustained after incentives taper, and impact on network activity.
• Make trading a priority across Monad Foundation's work in marketing, events, and ecosystem programs.

What you bring

• Trading-native background: you are an active trader or have held a non-quant role (BD, product, growth) at a trading protocol.
• Deep networks among traders and trading teams, the people who actually choose where to build and trade.
• Fluency in on-chain trading mechanics including AMMs, orderbooks, execution quality, MEV, and liquidity incentives.
• Comfort with numbers to model whether an incentive program retains volume after it ends, explain a trading team's revenue drivers, and hold your own with engineers and quants.
• Strong communication skills on paper, on stage, and in 1:1 conversations with founders.
• High ownership, trustworthiness, and follow-through.

Nice to have

• Relationships with VCs and accelerators funding trading teams.
• Access to specialized subnetworks including launchpads, perps, prediction markets, or memecoin trading.
• Relationships with market makers.

What we offer

• Challenging, technically demanding problems with autonomy and impact.
• A world-class team united by a culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output.
• Access to a strong ecosystem that has attracted support from leading investors, builders, and long-term contributors.

About Monad Foundation

Monad Foundation is a team of ecosystem and community builders dedicated to growing the impact of decentralized tech. Monad is a performant and parallel EVM Layer 1 blockchain designed to power global on-chain finance, offering developers and founders the portability of the EVM standard combined with high performance.