Tokenization Lead

Monad Foundation

Tokenization Lead at Monad Foundation building RWA ecosystem, onboarding asset issuers and integrating with DeFi protocols. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive tokenized asset adoption.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

tokenizationasset managementcapital marketsstructured productsmulti-party workflowson-chain asset issuancerisk curatorslending protocolsDeFi primitivesinstitutional product

Soft Skills

relationship buildingcoordinationaccountabilitycommunicationstrategic thinkingdata analysispipeline managementcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solving