Head of Institutions

Morpho

$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in business development with a track record of high-value deal sourcing and closure in TradFi, fintech, or crypto.
  • Minimum of 2 years' experience within a traditional financial institution.
  • Crypto native with hands-on experience in on-chain protocols.
  • Technical and product-savvy with solid financial markets and regulatory expertise.
  • Deep understanding of institutional evaluation processes and building credibility with executive stakeholders.
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills capable of navigating complex deals independently.
  • Humble disposition.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute Morpho's institutional growth strategy to enhance adoption and trust.
  • Build and manage a pipeline of institutional partners, facilitating complex commercial discussions from initial engagement to launch.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to institutions, educating them on DeFi and operational considerations.
  • Directly sign and expand Morpho's largest institutional partnerships, taking personal ownership of strategic deals.
  • Integrate market intelligence to influence product development and onboarding processes for institutions.
  • Represent Morpho at industry events, fostering strategic partnerships and contributing to thought leadership initiatives.

Benefits

  • Top-tier compensation designed to support deep work and personal growth.
  • Flexible work arrangements to ensure a balanced professional life.
  • Opportunities for team engagements in Paris.
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • Support for continuous learning and development.
Full Job Description
Location

New York
How we work

We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook: navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You'll be challenged (a lot): every decision is open to feedback and must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about how we operate: morpho.org/jobs.
Role

The mission of this role is to establish Morpho as the credit network of choice for the world's institutions by owning, signing, and growing our largest institutional relationships and building a institutional GTM motion from scratch.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and execute Morpho's institutional growth strategy, identifying and prioritizing the highest-impact institutional opportunities to accelerate adoption and trust on the network.
  • Build and own a pipeline of prospective institutional partners and customers, driving complex commercial discussions from first engagement through launch.
  • Become a trusted advisor to institutions (executives, investment teams, product leaders, and digital-asset teams), educating them on DeFi, on-chain lending, and Morpho's infrastructure, and guiding them through technical, operational, risk, and regulatory considerations.
  • Personally sign and grow Morpho's largest institutional relationships, carrying and closing the most strategic deals yourself rather than delegating them.
  • Bring institutional market intelligence back into the org, partnering with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and define institutional offerings and onboarding.
  • Represent Morpho at industry events and executive meetings, developing strategic partnerships across the institutional digital-asset ecosystem and collaborating with marketing on thought leadership.
What Success Looks Like

First 30 days

You've ramped on the protocol and the institutional landscape, mapped Morpho's institutional GTM motion, and understood the tools, team, and existing relationships. You've kicked off conversations with the highest-priority prospects and earned early credibility internally and externally.

First 4 months

You've built a high-quality pipeline of strategic institutional opportunities, with one or more flagship relationships launching or in advanced motion. You're a credible voice with sophisticated market participants and are already feeding institutional intelligence back into the product roadmap.

In 1 year

You've established a repeatable institutional GTM motion, launched and expanded several flagship institutional relationships, and become a trusted voice with key market participants, helping shape the products and partnerships that accelerate institutional adoption.
Must-have Experience & Skills
  • 5+ years in business development, with a proven track record sourcing and closing complex, high-value commercial relationships (in TradFi, fintech, or crypto).
  • At least 2 years inside a large traditional financial institution (capital markets, asset management, banking, or similar).
  • Crypto native: an active, hands-on user of on-chain protocols, not just an observer of the space.
  • Technical and product-minded, with deep financial-markets and regulatory knowledge and the corporate fluency to operate credibly inside large institutions.
  • Strong understanding of how institutions evaluate new infrastructure providers, with credibility across executives, investors, product leaders, and risk stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, able to independently source and close complex, multi-stakeholder deals without an established playbook or inbound pipeline.
  • Humble.
Perks & benefits

We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

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