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Monad FoundationMonad FoundationNew York, NY

Tokenization Lead

Own the end-to-end build-out of a thriving RWA/tokenized asset ecosystem on Monad: source and onboard issuers, integrate assets into DeFi, and drive distribution to investors. Requires 5-10 years in tokenization, asset management, or institutional DeFi BD.

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Hybrid5+ YOEBusiness Operations

About the role

What You Will Do

Issuer Sourcing & Onboarding

  • Identify, engage, and onboard asset managers, tokenization platforms, and fund managers looking to issue or migrate tokenized assets onto Monad.
  • Build and manage a structured issuer pipeline, tracking prospects from initial conversation through to live issuance.
  • Develop a point of view on which asset classes to prioritize — balancing institutional credibility, investor demand, and Monad-specific differentiation — and execute against that thesis.
  • Build early relationships with traditional financial institutions and asset managers, laying the groundwork for longer-term TradFi issuance on Monad.

On-Chain Utility & DeFi Integration

  • Coordinate with borrow/lend protocols and risk curators to ensure tokenized assets are integrated into DeFi primitives — lending, collateral, yield — once live on Monad.
  • Manage incentive conversations with protocols to drive liquidity and usage of tokenized assets on-chain.
  • Work toward common standards for how assets are issued and composed on Monad, providing predictability for issuers and clean integration paths for DeFi protocols.
  • Ensure secondary market liquidity exists for tokenized assets on-chain, making the ecosystem credible to serious investors beyond just issuance.

Distribution

  • Work with Monad's BD and ecosystem teams to ensure tokenized assets reach end users at scale — through crypto-native allocators, retail platforms, e-wallets, CEXs, super-apps, fintechs, and neobanks.
  • Understand and track who is holding tokenized assets on Monad, for how long, and why — using that data to refine sourcing priorities and build the case for new issuers.

Market & Regulatory Intelligence

  • Maintain a clear view of the competitive tokenization landscape — which assets are being issued where, which platforms are gaining traction, and why issuers choose one chain over another.
  • Develop working knowledge of the regulatory environment across key jurisdictions, understanding which asset types are viable where and ensuring Monad is positioned ahead of regulatory shifts rather than reacting to them.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Serve as the connective tissue across issuers, DeFi teams, risk curators, and distribution partners — ensuring the tokenization workflow runs with accountability and momentum.
  • Feed tokenization pipeline developments into Monad's broader investor relations and capital markets narrative, ensuring institutional MON investors understand the ecosystem being built.

What We Are Looking For

Background

  • 5–10 years of experience in one or more of the following: RWA or tokenization, asset management, institutional product at a digital asset firm, capital markets or structured products at a financial institution, or BD at a DeFi protocol with institutional focus.
  • Direct familiarity with how tokenized assets work on-chain — you understand the issuance process, the role of risk curators and lending protocols, and what makes an asset useful versus merely issued.
  • Experience managing multi-party workflows across issuers, protocols, and distribution partners.

Skills

  • Strong relationship builder — comfortable engaging both traditional finance counterparts (asset managers, fund administrators) and crypto-native teams (DeFi protocols, risk curators, wallet platforms).
  • Commercially sharp — able to identify which assets and issuers will move the needle for Monad and prioritize accordingly.
  • Operationally organized — this role requires managing a complex, multi-stage pipeline across multiple counterparties simultaneously without losing track of where things stand.
  • Clear communicator — able to translate between the language of TradFi and on-chain finance depending on the audience.

Mindset

  • Execution-oriented. You are comfortable owning a workflow end-to-end and driving it forward without waiting to be directed.
  • Curious about the asset side of the equation — you follow which asset classes are gaining institutional traction, who the credible issuers are, and where demand is emerging.
  • Collaborative — success in this role depends on working well with internal teams and external partners across very different contexts.

Skills

Rwa TokenizationAsset ManagementDefi ProtocolsRisk CurationInstitutional SalesStructured ProductsCapital MarketsPipeline ManagementRegulatory ComplianceBusiness Development
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