Welcome to the Chainlink Labs hiring process. Our interviews are fast, focused, and reciprocal—all held on Zoom to ensure speed and flexibility—giving you direct access to the leaders you’ll partner with. The process is tailored to your role and may evolve; we’ll keep you informed.
What to expect
Intro Call (30m)
Conversation with our Head of Executive Talent Acquisition on your background, the role scope, and how our principles guide how we build.
Hiring Manager (45m)
Deep dive into your career trajectory, leadership philosophy, and alignment with team goals.
Team Interviews
Quick sessions with team members on your experience, industry knowledge, and project work.
- Stakeholders (45m each)
Discussions with leaders you’ll collaborate with on Web3 expertise and leadership approach.
- Advisor (45m)
Dialogue with an external advisor on leadership, team-building, and scaling organizations.
- Web3 Bar Raiser (45m) - Case-by-Case Basis
Explores your fluency in the Web3 ecosystem—concepts, trends, and hands-on experience.
Take-Home Project + Presentation
Scoped project to complete within 7 days, followed by a 45-minute team presentation.
Alignment Interview (90m)
Conversation with a senior leader outside the team for a broader perspective on fit.
Final Call with Sergey (45m)
Deep dive on skills, leadership, and mutual fit at the highest level.
Closing
References, background check, and final recruiter check-in.
Job description
General Manager, Stablecoins & Payment Networks
About the Role
Chainlink Labs is building the infrastructure that enables global finance to move on-chain. As the leading provider of decentralized data and computation services, we power mission-critical applications across capital markets, tokenized assets, and Web3 protocols.
We are seeking a highly experienced General Manager, Stablecoins & Payment Networks to lead our efforts across the evolving landscape of digital payments and blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure. This is a strategic, high-impact role that serves as the ultimate point of accountability for the Stablecoins & Payment Networks domain, responsible for revenue growth, deal oversight, and alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
You will act as a player-coach, combining executive-level strategy with hands-on commercial leadership. You’ll leverage your extensive network across financial institutions, market infrastructures, and technology providers to originate and close high-value partnerships, driving adoption of Chainlink’s solutions in stablecoins, tokenized deposits, CBDCs, and payment networks.
As the senior owner for Stablecoins & Payment Networks, you will influence Chainlink Labs’ product roadmap, go-to-market strategy, and external positioning, serving as a key representative of the company at major industry events, client engagements, and in public forums.
Your Impact
- Strategic Ownership: Serve as the executive sponsor and commercial owner for the Stablecoins & Payment Networks domain, directly accountable for growth, deal progression, and alignment across internal and external stakeholders.
- Market Expansion: Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for institutional adoption of Chainlink’s infrastructure across stablecoins, tokenized deposits, CBDCs, and next-generation payment networks.
- Relationship Development: Establish and deepen strategic partnerships across top-tier banks, FMIs, and payment providers.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Drive coordination across product, BD, marketing, and engineering to deliver tailored solutions for highly regulated financial markets.
- Thought Leadership: Represent Chainlink Labs at high-profile industry events and in conversations with regulators, policymakers, and financial executives.
- Product Influence: Align client and market feedback with product direction to shape the evolution of Chainlink’s infrastructure in digital payments and stablecoin ecosystems.
Requirements
- Minimum of 15+ years in payments, banking, or technology sales into financial services, with deep relationships and influence across C-suite stakeholders.
- Proven track record of closing multi-million-dollar, large-scale institutional deals through influence and executive-level relationships.
- Demonstrated success driving commercial outcomes across the full value chain of stablecoins and digital payments — from issuers to platforms, liquidity, and distribution partners.
- Deep expertise in one or more of the following: stablecoins, tokenized deposits, CBDCs, or digital means of payment, including issuance, infrastructure, and payment networks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing new market opportunities, owning GTM strategy, defining product requirements, and introducing emerging technology into regulated industries.
- High-charisma leadership with the ability to inspire confidence, build trusted relationships internally and externally, and command presence at industry events such as Sibos, Digital Asset Week, or Future of Finance.
- Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead through influence across complex, matrixed environments without direct reporting lines.
- Entrepreneurial track record, having built or scaled a business, department, or initiative from zero to one.
- Strong technical literacy and the ability to engage deeply on blockchain and distributed ledger (DLT) infrastructure.
- Prior experience in a fintech or digital asset infrastructure company.
How to approach the conversation
Clarity matters
Answer directly and with focus. Precision is valued more than polish.
Depth over script
We’re interested in how you think and lead, not rehearsed examples. Expect the conversation to stretch into follow-ups.
Think out loud
Share your reasoning and trade-offs. The process is as important as the conclusion.
Dialogue, not Q&A
Come ready with questions about priorities, culture, and operating principles. We want to ensure alignment is mutual.
Before we meet
Explore who we are and how we build with the curated resources below and on our resources page, providing context for a thoughtful discussion.
Keynotes, case studies, and recent press about Chainlink:
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Why join us?
Our mission
Build decentralized systems that link everything to the truth, creating a fair, unbiased world.
Why join us?
Work with an A-team of industry experts, driving Chainlink’s growth at the forefront of blockchain. Boldness is essential here.
Key Principles alignment
We are proud of our collaborative culture. Be prepared to discuss how you align with our Key Principles:
Ownership
We apply high standards in our work and take complete, unconditional responsibility for all outcomes. We always go the extra mile when helping one another, our users, and our community and working toward achieving our objectives.
Focus
Prioritizing outcomes and avoiding the many distractions in our industry enables us to pay full attention to our objectives and achieve more in less time without wasting energy.
Dialogue
Chainlink Labs is an idea meritocracy. We seek to arrive at the truth about every situation through open, honest, and constructive dialogue. We avoid personal biases and ego and seek to overcome the fear of engaging in productive conflict to arrive at truth.