Senior Strategic Account Manager - DeFi

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, DeFi, payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

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As a Strategic Account Manager at Chainlink Labs, you will be a vital member of our team, responsible for nurturing and enhancing our relationships with strategic partners in the top DeFi protocols. Your primary focus will be to understand our partners\' requirements, facilitate smooth product integration, and deliver exceptional account management support. By leveraging your extensive experience in technical account management and deep knowledge of web3 and DeFi, you will drive customer satisfaction, promote product usage, and foster long-term partnerships. Your expertise and interpersonal skills will be instrumental in shaping the success of both our partners and Chainlink Labs.

• Establish a comprehensive account management plan encompassing various aspects such as community engagement, DAO governance landscape, delegate outreach, product integration, and roadmap alignment.
• Undertake new business development activities to continue to acquire DeFi protocols for Chainlink
• Create and oversee team structure for the account management plan.
• Establish good working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Grow the product usage of existing products.
• Take user feedback to help product generate new features and products to drive user satisfaction.

• 3+ Years of extensive account, new business and/ or relationship management in technical environments with experience managing large and complex accounts, and successfully engaging stakeholders at all levels and functions within organizations.
• Knowledge of web3 / blockchain technology and strong experience with DeFi (including personal hands on experience with DeFi)
• Ability to read code, hold technical conversation and navigate large-scale software development projects is highly desirable
• With Pre-sales experience, strong business acumen and experience driving commercial negotiations
• 2+ years experience working with decentralized applications (DApps), smart contracts, and blockchain technology.
• Able to travel 20%+

• Experience within the other non-EVM ecosystems
• Strong experience navigating DAOs

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