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 the recruiter of this role 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
About the Role
Chainlink is seeking a Vice President of Product Management, Capital Markets, to lead the development and delivery of our institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure for capital markets. This is a GM-level leadership role—owning the full-stack product vision, team, and execution for one of Chainlink’s most strategically important verticals.
You’ll build and scale the products that enable banks, custodians, and financial institutions to access decentralized systems securely and efficiently. From custody integrations and settlement rails to chain abstraction protocols and relayer infrastructure, you’ll deliver core infrastructure powering the next generation of financial systems.
This is not a pure strategy role—it’s a builder’s role. You’ll manage a team of senior product managers, collaborate closely with world-class engineers, and operate with the autonomy and ownership of a founder. You’re someone who thrives in complexity, moves fast, and brings a high technical bar to infrastructure product development.
This role is fully backed by Chainlink’s executive team and sits at the heart of our institutional roadmap. You’ll have the resources, mandate, and team to shape the future of blockchain adoption across global financial markets.
Your Impact
- Own the Institutional Product Stack: Lead end-to-end strategy and execution across custody interfaces, capital markets CCIP feature sets, relayers, and appchain offerings.
- Deliver for the World’s Largest Institutions: Build secure, compliant, and performant infrastructure for top-tier financial institutions, integrating with blockchains.
- Lead and Scale a High-Performing PM Team: Manage a team of senior PMs delivering across critical product areas; build a culture of technical depth and executional excellence.
- Bridge TradFi and Blockchain: Develop products that connect legacy financial systems to blockchain networks, enabling tokenization, real-time settlement, and proof-of-reserve functionality.
- Shape Chainlink’s Institutional Narrative: Partner with BD, Legal, and Marketing to position Chainlink’s capital markets stack as the industry standard.
- Collaborate Across Strategic Domains: Work closely with leaders across CCIP Core, RWA/Data, and Web3 to ensure cohesive institutional infrastructure delivery.
What Success Looks Like
- Within 6 months, you’ve delivered a clear, prioritized roadmap and gained buy-in across engineering
- and GTM leadership.
- Within 12 months, your team has shipped live products integrated into the capital markets infrastructure used by major institutions.
- Chainlink is seen as the default infrastructure provider for capital markets use cases, ranging from custody to cross-chain settlement.
- You are a trusted leader within Chainlink and the broader industry, helping define the future of blockchain-based financial infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years in product leadership roles building and shipping technical infrastructure for capital markets (e.g., custody systems, settlement networks, trading platforms, financial messaging layers).
- Proven experience leading high-performing PM teams (10+), with a track record of delivering enterprise-grade systems at scale.
- Strong technical fluency; able to partner deeply with engineering and make high-quality product decisions involving distributed systems, security, or blockchain infrastructure.
- Deep understanding of the capital markets landscape—its structure, regulation, participants, and workflows.
- Direct experience with blockchain infrastructure, whether integrating it into institutional products or building native blockchain systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Operator-founder or early product leader at a startup building capital markets or blockchain infrastructure.
- Experience building custody rails, payment networks, or secure financial messaging systems (e.g., FIX, SWIFT, ISO 20022).
- Familiar with compliance, risk, and regulatory expectations in enterprise financial products.
- Holds or actively engages with digital assets; stays current on blockchain trends and adoption patterns.
- Strong communicator with a proven ability to influence internal executives and external institutions.
Why This Role?
This is a rare opportunity to define and own a core Chainlink product vertical at the intersection of blockchain and global finance. You’ll operate as a founder of the capital markets product line—backed by Chainlink’s world-class team, institutional reach, and proven infrastructure.
You’ll build alongside some of the most experienced engineers and product leaders in Web3, while shaping the future of blockchain adoption for some of the world’s largest financial institutions.
If you’re ready to own something big—and build infrastructure that will power trillions in value—we’d love to hear from you.
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.