Lead, Institutional Strategy and Communications

About Us

Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bringing the capital markets onchain and powering the majority of decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides the essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed to power advanced blockchain use cases for institutional tokenized assets, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), payments, stablecoins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions have also adopted Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure, including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, Aave, GMX, Lido, and many others.

Chainlink Labs is a world-class team of over 600 developers, researchers, and capital markets experts, and has ranked among Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology, Fortune's Best Medium Workplace, and the Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces. Learn more at chain.link or chainlinklabs.com.

About The Role

Chainlink is seeking a senior institutional strategist and communicator to lead its engagement with key asset managers, allocators, analysts, and other financial stakeholders. This role will be instrumental in educating the market on how Chainlink’s infrastructure is connecting global financial systems to the onchain economy.

This is a high-impact, externally facing role ideal for candidates with a background in equity research, investment banking, investor relations, or venture investing — especially those who’ve led thematic analysis or advised growth-stage technology companies.

You will develop and deliver high-impact narratives around tokenization, interoperability, and the modernization of financial infrastructure. You’ll own the strategy and execution for analyst outreach, narrative development, and briefing preparation, helping institutional audiences understand the increasingly critical role Chainlink plays in powering secure, cross-chain, and real-world financial systems.

This is a highly collaborative, externally facing role supporting Chainlink leadership in major communications initiatives, briefings, and market education efforts.

Your Impact

• Lead Institutional Narrative: Define and evolve how Chainlink is positioned across macro themes like real-world asset integration, cross-chain settlement, and financial infrastructure transformation
• Lead Analyst Engagement & Briefings: Proactively build and manage relationships with sell-side and buy-side analysts, guiding them through Chainlink’s platform, ecosystem growth, and vision, highlighting its unique position in the market
• Own Decks & Briefing Materials: Build the briefing decks, primers, thematic reports, and Q&A docs that arm both internal execs and external analysts with top-tier materials
• Institutional Market Positioning. Ensure Chainlink’s market role is clearly communicated across events, analyst days, and private meetings
• Support Executive-Level Engagements: Collaborate with senior leadership on high-impact communications, capital markets panels, and strategic briefings for financial institutions and research platforms
  
  

Qualifications

• 8+ years in equity research, ETF research, institutional investor relations, or institutional marketing
• Experience producing thematic or initiation-style reports, primers, or macro narratives tailored to institutional audiences
• Familiarity with institutional research teams, analyst workflows, and communications cycles at institutional firms
• Exceptional communication skills — able to convert complex infrastructure concepts into concise, engaging narratives for professional financial audiences
• Strong understanding of blockchain infrastructure, tokenized asset systems, cross-chain protocols, and the foundations of onchain finance
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience managing analyst communications around IPOs, M&A, or product launches
• Experience working at or advising emerging tech or Web3 firms
• Familiarity with buy-side/sell-side research cycles, modeling assumptions, and analyst workflows
• Knowledge of themes such as programmable finance, stablecoin settlement, RWA issuance, and blockchain-based market infrastructure
  
  

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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