About the company
Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 225 million, over 1.2 million smart contracts created and 2.56 billion total transactions processed since inception. The existing Polygon network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects, such as Aave, Uniswap, and OpenSea, and well-known enterprises, including Robinhood, Stripe and Adobe. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.
Job Summary
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.
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