Trading Lead

About the role

As a Trading Lead at Monad Labs, you will focus on bringing advanced trading applications such as DEXs and trading terminals to the Monad network. This role is pivotal in shaping the trading narrative and ensuring successful onboarding and launch of trading startups.

You will collaborate closely with VCs and accelerators, ensuring that trading initiatives are prioritized across Monad’s marketing and ecosystem programs. Success in this role involves a deep understanding of trading mechanics and strong relationships within the trading community.

Skills that matter here

• trading expertise: This role requires a strong background in trading, either as an active trader or through experience in a non-quant role at a trading protocol.
• communication: You will need to effectively communicate with diverse stakeholders, including traders, founders, and engineers.
• networking: Building relationships with trading teams and VCs is crucial for success in this position.
• data analysis: Comfort with numbers is essential for modeling incentive programs and understanding trading revenue drivers.

Who this role suits

• You have a strong background in trading or a related role, with a network of connections in the trading community.
• You are a proactive communicator, comfortable presenting ideas and insights to various audiences.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment, valuing low ego and high-quality output.
• You possess a strong sense of ownership and accountability in your work.

From the employer

What You’ll Do

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

Who You Are

• Trading-native. You’re an active trader, or you’ve held a non-quant role (BD, product, growth) at a trading protocol. A generalist BD background alone doesn’t meet the bar.
• Deeply networked among traders and trading teams, the people who actually choose where to build and trade.
• Fluent in onchain trading mechanics: AMMs, orderbooks, execution quality, MEV, and liquidity incentives.
• Comfortable with numbers. You can 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.
• A strong communicator on paper, on stage, and in 1:1 conversations with founders.
• High ownership, trustworthy, and you follow through.

Nice-to-Haves

• Relationships with VCs and accelerators funding trading teams.
• Access to specialized subnetworks: launchpads, perps, prediction markets, memecoin trading.
• Relationships with market makers (a bonus; this area is already well covered).

Why Work with Us

• Challenging problems. You’ll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact.
• Endless Opportunity for Impact. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad’s core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance.
• The right team. You’ll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated.
• Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output.
• Strong Ecosystem. The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors.