Institutional Growth Marketing Lead

Solana Foundation

$130K — $160K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of marketing experience targeting institutional financial audiences (asset managers, banks, etc.)
  • Proven track record of owning full-funnel marketing programs from audience definition to outcome accountability
  • Strong writing skills tailored for sophisticated financial professionals
  • Experience creating practical sales enablement tools used by commercial teams
  • Ability to interpret and present complex data into compelling narratives
  • Familiarity with digital assets, tokenization, and market structure as emerging trends
  • Proficient in AI tools for research and marketing campaign analysis

Responsibilities

  • Segment institutional and capital-markets audiences into specific personas and named accounts
  • Develop and implement integrated marketing campaigns focused on tokenization and capital markets
  • Create sales enablement materials for the Institutional BD team, including presentations and objections handling tools
  • Produce impactful research and reports in collaboration with the Data team
  • Lead activation of events and partnerships, utilizing Breakpoint as a key moment
  • Measure and report on institutional engagement and pipeline impact in collaboration with BD teams

Benefits

  • Access to cutting-edge marketing tools and resources
  • Collaborative environment working alongside data, events, and communications teams
  • Opportunity for professional growth in a rapidly evolving sector
  • Work in a prime location in New York, close to major financial institutions
  • Direct impact on shaping marketing strategies for a pioneering company in digital assets
Full Job Description
The Opportunity

Banks, asset managers, and financial infrastructure providers are building on Solana. Tokenized assets, stablecoin rails and always-on markets have moved from thesis to pipeline. What we do not yet have is a dedicated marketing capability that speaks to those buyers in their language, at their pace, with the evidence they need.

We are looking for an Institutional Growth Marketing Lead to own that audience end to end. You will define who we are talking to, build the campaigns and content that reach them, and give our institutional business development team the material they need to move deals forward. This is a growth role with a credibility problem to solve: the work only lands if an allocator or a head of digital assets at a major bank finds it genuinely useful.

You will be based in New York, close to the institutions we serve, and will work alongside our BD, data, events and communications teams.

To be Successful in this role

You will:
  • Segment the institutional and capital-markets audience down to named accounts and specific personas.
  • Develop and execute integrated campaigns around tokenization and internet capital markets across owned, earned, and partner channels.
  • Build sales enablement materials for Institutional BD, including narratives, decks, one-pagers, objection handling, and a maintained content library.
  • Produce flagship research and reports in partnership with the Data team, creating work that gets cited rather than skimmed.
  • Drive event and partnership activation alongside the Events team, with Breakpoint serving as the anchor moment.
  • Measure institutional engagement and pipeline influence in partnership with BD, establishing clear success metrics and reporting results honestly.


You ideally have:
  • Substantial experience marketing to institutional financial audiences - asset managers, banks, allocators, market infrastructure, or fintech serving those buyers
  • Demonstrated ownership of a full-funnel program, not just campaign execution: you have defined the audience, built the plan, and been accountable for what it produced
  • The ability to write with authority for a sophisticated financial reader, and the judgment to know when a claim needs a source
  • Experience building sales enablement that a commercial team actually uses
  • Comfort with research and data: you can brief an analysis, interrogate the output, and turn it into a narrative that holds
  • A working understanding of digital assets and where tokenization, stablecoins and market structure are genuinely heading
  • Fluency with AI tooling for research, segmentation, drafting and campaign analysis


Bonus points:
  • You have sat on the institutional side at a bank, fund, or market infrastructure provider.
    You have experience in the fintech or blockchain industry.
  • Experience launching a research franchise or flagship industry report
  • An existing network among institutional digital-asset teams
  • You can hold your own in a room with both a crypto-native founder and a chief investment officer

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