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 blockchain--the performant and parallel EVM Layer 1--will help decentralized apps eat the world.
The Monad Foundation is looking for a Head of Korea to establish Monad as the leading blockchain in South Korea by institutional and retail adoption. South Korea is one of the most dynamic and active blockchain markets globally, with a highly engaged investor community.
You’ll own the overall strategy for the South Korean market, driving business development, strategic relationships and ecosystem growth. You will serve as Monad Foundation’s key representative to major Korean enterprises and institutions, covering use cases such as payments, tokenization/RWA, and capital markets.
Develop, own, and execute go to market strategies to establish Monad as an industry leader in the South Korean market among institutional and retail investors.
Own business development strategy and execution by identifying, negotiating and closing strategic deals that position Monad as a top chain amongst Korean enterprises and institutions.
Build and nurture relationships with strategic regional stakeholders including regional exchanges, enterprises,, media and regulatory bodies to expand Monad’s presence and mindshare.
Stay on top of the evolving South Korean regulatory landscape and trends to identify high-impact opportunities to position Monad as an industry leader and first-mover.
8+ years of business development experience, including 3+ years in blockchain, digital assets, or Web3 startups.
Deep understanding of the South Korean market and extensive experience in engaging and selling some of the largest enterprises and institutions in Korea.
Proven ability to engage retail and institutional investors.
Considerable market foresight in terms of what major corporations are doing in crypto and where the regulatory landscape is headed.
Robust network across regional institutions, enterprises, and web3 companies.
Deep understanding of web3 in the context of corporate strategy and how to effectively apply web3 technologies (e.g. why launch a stablecoin, benefits of tokenization, etc.)
Self-starter who takes ownership of initiatives from ideation to execution.
Native-level fluency in both Korean and English (written and verbal).
Extensive experience guiding market entry for web3 startups (e.g., providing strategic guidance, local insights and connectivity).
Deep connectivity into Korean centralized exchanges
Considerable expertise and connectivity with regulators
Robust understanding and connectivity into Korean media
Entrepreneurial experience across the full startup lifecycle, including fundraising, product launches and operations.
Deep technical understanding of blockchains.
The role is based in South Korea.
Challenging problems. You’ll tackle deeply complex and technically demanding problems, with autonomy and impact.
Endless Opportunity for Impact. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are slow and bandwidth-constrained. Monad’s core innovations offer developers and founders the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer to power global on-chain finance.
The right team. You’ll be part of a world class team, who are exceptional and highly-motivated.
Culture We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low ego, and high-quality output.
Strong Ecosystem The broader Monad ecosystem has attracted support from leading investors, builders and long-term contributors.
Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. Such greenfield systems include from-scratch databases, Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanisms, JIT compilers for EVM bytecode, and much more.
We recently raised $225M in series A funding, and are backed by Paradigm, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, and others.
Category Labs is building the next generation of blockchain infrastructure with Monad, an EVM-compatible layer 1 that dramatically improves performance. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. We are introducing these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization.
