Monad Foundation
Decentralized Tech
TokenizationLead
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“Tokenization Lead at Monad Foundation. Skills: Tokenization of real-world assets, building a thriving RWA ecosystem on Monad, sourcing and onboarding asset issuers, unlocking on-chain utility, ensuring tokenized assets reach investors and end users at scale. 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 thr”
What You'll Achieve.
build a thriving RWA ecosystem on Monad; unlocking on-chain utility; ensuring tokenized assets reach investors and end users at scale; drive liquidity and usage of tokenized assets on-chain; Ensure secondary market liquidity exists for tokenized assets on-chain; ensure tokenized assets reach end users at scale; build the case for new issuers
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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
What You'll Do.
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
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
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
Understand and track who is holding tokenized assets on Monad
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
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.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with cross-functional teams across BD, DeFi, and ecosystem partnerships; Coordinate with borrow/lend protocols and risk curators; Work with Monad's BD and ecosystem teams; Serve as the connective tissue across issuers, DeFi teams, risk curators, and distribution partners; working well with internal teams and external partners across very different contexts
Communication Scope
Clear communicator — able to translate between the language of TradFi and on-chain finance depending on the audience
Process & Methodology
managing multi-party workflows across issuers, protocols, and distribution partners, Operationally organized — this role requires managing a complex, multi-stage pipeline across multiple counterparties simultaneously without losing track of where things stand
Full Job Description
The Monad Foundation is a team of dedicated ecosystem and community builders who are on a mission to massively grow the impact of decentralized tech. We believe that the Monad https://monad.xyz/ blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world. ABOUT THE ROLE Tokenization of real-world assets is one of the most significant structural shifts happening in financial markets — and Monad is positioned to be the home for it. As Tokenization Lead, you will own the end-to-end effort to build a thriving RWA ecosystem on Monad: sourcing and onboarding asset issuers, unlocking on-chain utility, and ensuring tokenized assets reach investors and end users at scale. This is a hands-on, execution-oriented role. You will manage the full workflow — from identifying and closing asset issuers, to coordinating with DeFi protocols and risk curators to make those assets useful on-chain, to working with distribution partners to put them in front of the right investors. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across BD, DeFi, and ecosystem partnerships, and report into senior leadership overseeing Monad's financial institutions effort. 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 —
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