What are the responsibilities and job description for the DeFi Ecosystem Lead position at TechChain Talent?
Base Salary: USD $170,000 – $230,000
About The Company
We are a technology initiative building enterprise-grade infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted on chain financial products. Our focus is on enabling transparent, verifiable, and scalable on chain systems that support real-world financial use cases and large institutional partners.
Our mission is to bridge decentralized finance and traditional enterprise adoption by delivering robust, production-ready on chain infrastructure.
About The Role
We are hiring a DeFi Ecosystem Lead to scale a growing suite of on chain financial products by driving ecosystem strategy, protocol integrations, and stakeholder engagement across decentralized finance.
This role is suited for a motivated operator with strong DeFi ecosystem intuition, the ability to execute complex integrations, and the communication skills required to translate DeFi-native capabilities into enterprise-ready offerings.
The role is open to candidates across a range of seniority levels, provided they demonstrate ownership, strategic thinking, and a strong execution track record.
Role Scope & Focus
This role operates across both DeFi-native ecosystems and enterprise go-to-market efforts, with a 60 / 40 functional split:
60% – DeFi Ecosystem & Protocol Engagement
About The Company
We are a technology initiative building enterprise-grade infrastructure that powers the next generation of trusted on chain financial products. Our focus is on enabling transparent, verifiable, and scalable on chain systems that support real-world financial use cases and large institutional partners.
Our mission is to bridge decentralized finance and traditional enterprise adoption by delivering robust, production-ready on chain infrastructure.
About The Role
We are hiring a DeFi Ecosystem Lead to scale a growing suite of on chain financial products by driving ecosystem strategy, protocol integrations, and stakeholder engagement across decentralized finance.
This role is suited for a motivated operator with strong DeFi ecosystem intuition, the ability to execute complex integrations, and the communication skills required to translate DeFi-native capabilities into enterprise-ready offerings.
The role is open to candidates across a range of seniority levels, provided they demonstrate ownership, strategic thinking, and a strong execution track record.
Role Scope & Focus
This role operates across both DeFi-native ecosystems and enterprise go-to-market efforts, with a 60 / 40 functional split:
60% – DeFi Ecosystem & Protocol Engagement
- Work directly with DeFi-native protocol teams and developers
- Coordinate multiple stakeholders to enable novel product initiatives
- Identify, prioritize, and execute high-impact integrations with leading protocols
- Explore new ecosystems and partnerships to drive product growth
- Translate DeFi integrations into enterprise-facing product offerings
- Partner closely with Sales and Business Development teams
- Support enterprise education and adoption of onchain financial capabilities
- Strategic Integrations Identify, evaluate, and prioritize DeFi protocols for integration with existing and future products.
- Ecosystem & Partnership Management Build and maintain strong relationships with protocol teams, developers, and ecosystem leaders.
- Product Growth & Adoption Design and execute strategies to increase adoption and usage of DeFi-focused products.
- Market & Ecosystem Intelligence Monitor trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging opportunities to inform ecosystem and product strategy.
- Technical Collaboration Partner closely with product and engineering teams to ensure seamless integrations and a strong developer experience.
- Community Representation Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and online forums.
- Stakeholder Education Support go-to-market teams by breaking down DeFi concepts in a manner that resonates with enterprise audiences.
- Experience in ecosystem, partnerships, or business development roles within DeFi, crypto, or fintech
- Strong familiarity with major DeFi protocols and primitives
- Proven ability to deliver large, high-impact protocol integrations
- Experience collaborating with wallet providers or user-facing crypto infrastructure
- Comfort contributing to broader company and product strategy, not only execution
- DeFi Expertise Deep understanding of DeFi architectures and primitives (lending/borrowing, AMMs, stable assets, derivatives).
- Technical Communication Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partnership & Ecosystem Management Proven experience identifying, negotiating, and managing strategic partnerships.
- Product & Growth Orientation Experience driving adoption and growth for digital or on chain products.
- Analytical & Strategic Thinking Ability to analyse market data, usage metrics, and on chain activity to inform decisions.
- Communication & Influence Strong written and verbal communication skills across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Autonomy & Ownership Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable managing multiple priorities independently.
- Adaptability Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, rapidly evolving industry.
- Pre-existing relationships with leading DeFi protocols
- Prior leadership experience in ecosystem or business development roles
- Demonstrated growth into ecosystem ownership from earlier-stage roles
- Wallet-side integrations or partnership experience
- History of facilitating complex, high-impact protocol integrations
- Strong understanding of ecosystem success metrics (e.g., integrations, adoption, TVL, strategic footprint)
Salary : $170,000 - $230,000