Director - On-Chain Finance

About Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a software development company building and developing a network of aggregated blockchains via the Agglayer, secured by Ethereum. As public infrastructure, the Agglayer will bring together user bases and liquidity for any connected chain, and leverage Ethereum as a settlement layer. Polygon Labs has also contributed to the core development of several widely-adopted scaling protocols and tools for launching blockchains, including Agglayer CDK, Polygon PoS & Katana.

Your Role

Are you passionate about shaping the future of on-chain finance at the intersection of traditional finance and decentralized infrastructure?

As Director, On-Chain Finance Growth, based in London, you will lead Polygon Labs' efforts to expand adoption of its PoS network and product suite-especially Katana-for payment rails and Real World Asset (RWA) use cases.

This is a high-impact, independent role where you will build strategic relationships across the UK and Europe's financial ecosystem, bring institutional use cases on-chain, and serve as a trusted voice in one of the world's most complex and influential financial markets. I

f you thrive on autonomy, bring strong commercial instincts, and are ready to help evolve Polygon Labs into the leading platform for on-chain finance, we want to hear from you.

This is a contract, part-time role (2 days a week).

Your Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of Polygon Labs' core technologies-Polygon PoS, Katana, and AggLayer-within financial services, fintech, and crypto infrastructure players in the UK and Northern Europe.

• Build and manage strategic relationships with top-tier institutions exploring on-chain use cases including payments, RWAs, and on-chain FX.

• Partner with the Product, Legal, and Growth teams to co-create localized GTM strategies and identify use cases to pilot across DeFi, digital banking, and infrastructure layers.

• Provide clear and actionable insight on the evolving UK and EU regulatory environment, helping to guide internal decision-making and partner strategies.

• Surface high-value opportunities aligned with product roadmap, including stablecoin infrastructure, low-cost microtransaction flows, and portfolio-level yield products via Katana.

• Act as Polygon Labs' point of contact for institutional RWA initiatives, including integration of low-risk and high-yield vaults across the network.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years experience in financial services, fintech, crypto infrastructure, or blockchain-ideally in digital assets, stablecoins, payments, or DeFi.

• Strong network across the UK financial ecosystem-banks, payment providers, fintechs, and digital asset service companies.

• Demonstrated ability to independently lead strategic business development efforts, manage cross-functional initiatives, and convert opportunities into adoption.

• Strong grasp of on-chain financial primitives, institutional yield products, and how Polygon technology fits into market needs.

• Working knowledge of UK/EU crypto regulations and how they impact payments, tokenized assets, and institutional engagement.

• Excellent communication and executive presence-confident interfacing with partners and contributing to internal strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background at or partnerships with institutional crypto infrastructure, DeFi protocols, crypto payments & Fintechs/Neobanks.

• Experience bringing a crypto product to market with institutional clients.

• Prior involvement in early-stage GTM for blockchain financial use cases.

• Demonstrated autonomy in fast-paced, ambiguous work environments.