Head of DeFi at Confidential

About Us

We are a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralised technology. We believe that our blockchain — a high-performance, parallel EVM Layer 1 — will help decentralised apps eat the world.

The Role

We are looking for a Head of DeFi to lead the strategy, relationships, and hands-on execution that grows DeFi across our network. This is a player-coach role: you will set the roadmap and get into the weeds — advising builders on protocol design, orchestrating asset onboarding, deploying incentives with discipline, and ensuring the DeFi stack on our network is robust and capital-efficient.

You should be the person who can explain how any top protocol on DefiLlama makes money, open a native protocol's frontend and produce a sharp assessment of what is working and what is not, and then get on a call with a TradFi executive and explain why on-chain yield infrastructure matters. You hold the full DeFi picture in your head and turn that knowledge into TVL, volume, and fees.

What You Will Do

Own DeFi growth strategy across the network — prioritising bets across lending, DEXs, stablecoins, RWAs, and yield infrastructure, measured by TVL, volume, stablecoin market cap, RWA market cap, and fees generated
Execute end-to-end asset and protocol onboarding — coordinating across oracles, liquidators, DEX pool setup, curators, and bridging providers
Advise DeFi builders deploying on the network — providing high-conviction, actionable feedback on protocol mechanics, product gaps, and market positioning
Activate your network of whales, liquid funds, curators, and blue-chip DeFi founders to kickstart early liquidity and protocol traction
Bridge DeFi and TradFi/Fintech — representing the organisation with senior institutional executives and translating yield generation opportunities into strategic terms they can act on
Drive incentive strategy — forming and defending opinions on which initiatives attract durable TVL per unit of spend versus which produce mercenary capital
Manage a team of 2–3 DeFi specialists — setting priorities, maintaining execution tempo, and building a culture of rigour and bias for action

Who You Are

DeFi-fluent operator with a track record of driving measurable growth in TVL, liquidity, or protocol adoption; you understand value flows across lending (Aave, Morpho, Euler), CDPs, DEXs, and yield-bearing stablecoins — and can explain what each category needs to win
Opinionated on asset quality and risk — able to research a new interest-bearing asset and quickly assess bridging mechanics, liquidity depth, redemption windows, reserve transparency, and issuer controls
Deep, pre-existing network among whales, liquid crypto-native funds, DeFi curators, and blue-chip protocol founders — you bring the rolodex on day one
Executive presence — credible with TradFi/Fintech C-suite; able to make DeFi concepts legible to institutional decision-makers without oversimplifying
Strategic and organised — you see the full DeFi chessboard, prioritise ruthlessly, and know when to move fast versus when to build consensus
Proven leadership and management experience — you have run a small, high-output team with clear direction and high trust
Efficient communicator — written and verbal; you distil complexity into clarity without losing nuance

Nice to Have

Strong knowledge of trading and markets; able to think in expected value (EV) terms
Experience deploying or managing liquidity across multiple chains
Comfort reading Solidity and understanding smart contract risk at a conceptual level
Experience working within a foundation, DAO, or decentralised contributor structure

Why Work With Us

Challenging problems — you will work on extremely challenging problems with massive real-world impact
Huge opportunity — the EVM standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained; our 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 will be part of an exceptional, highly motivated group of people
Culture — we are a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals, united by a culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output; as an early team member, you will help continue to shape that culture