Ecosystem

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 supporting committed teams that are building ambitious products on Monad.

As part of the Ecosystem team, you'll conceptualize, implement, and manage growth initiatives for early
- to mid-stage builders across all verticals (DeFi, gaming, NFTs, etc) to become thriving ecosystem projects. You will use both creativity and data-driven evidence to identify which strategies and support verticals to prioritize. You will manage, maintain, and improve internal and externally-facing systems and processes. You are ready and willing to tackle any challenge, no problem too small. You are someone who is self-sufficient, organized, and ambitious with existing experience in L1/L2 ecosystem development.

This role is crucial to Monad's success, and offers a unique opportunity to impart massive impact on the trajectory of the Monad ecosystem.

**What you'll be doing**:

- You'll develop and execute new initiatives that grow the Monad ecosystem
- You'll work alongside Business Development, DevRel, Marketing, and Operations teams to execute on initiatives
- You'll collaborate with a range of counterparties, builders, investors, exchanges, infrastructure providers—to promote the growth of the Monad ecosystem
- You'll manage initiatives like grants programs and hackathons that bring builders to Monad and encourage them to compose with other Monad ecosystem apps

**Who You Are**:

- Two or more years of experience in ecosystem work at an L1/L2 blockchain or similar (e.g. portfolio support at a venture firm), onboarding and growing successful projects from the ground up
- You are biased toward action while respecting team-oriented priorities
- You are no-ego, adaptable, entrepreneurial, detail-oriented
- You are an excellent speaker and writer
- You are personable and able to manage expectations across many stakeholders and multiple on-going relationships

**Nice to Have**:

- Experience working at an early-stage startup
- Strong existing relationships in the industry
- Fluency in multiple languages

**Why Work With Us**:

- **Challenging problems.**You'll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.
- **Huge opportunity.** The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard 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.** You'll be part of an exceptional team.
- **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.
- **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. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportunity to join. You'll learn a lot and grow as our company scales.