Galaxy Digital LP

Protocol Director

Galaxy Digital LP • $130K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Deep understanding of Ethereum, Solana, or Chainlink oracle networks.
  • Proven experience in managing technical teams and driving team development.
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with real business impacts.
  • Exceptional technical communication skills for various audiences.
  • Operational expertise in managing multi-team functions and logistics.
  • High agency with the capacity to take ownership of projects.
  • Passion for innovation in the evolving protocol landscape.

Responsibilities

  • Lead protocol teams and act as a mentor for technical leaders.
  • Guide teams through complex technical challenges with depth of knowledge.
  • Set and maintain efficient operational rhythms for multiple teams.
  • Oversee team performance, retention, and operational health.
  • Develop strategic visions for protocols and their business applications.
  • Facilitate collaboration and communication across different teams.
  • Engage with clients to leverage protocol expertise in key discussions.

Benefits

  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their dependents.
  • Competitive paid time off policy.
  • Access to free virtual coaching sessions via Headspace.
  • Provision of daily snacks in-office.
  • Opportunities to explore and learn within the crypto industry.
  • Work alongside intelligent and entrepreneurial colleagues.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do:
  • Lead the protocol teams
  • Manage the leads of the validators, Solana, and Chainlink teams. Develop them as technical leaders and hold the bar for the engineers beneath them.
  • Provide protocol-level technical guidance to the teams, not just escalation management but genuine depth that helps them work through hard problems faster.
  • Set a consistent operating rhythm across the three teams: planning, reviews, incident response, and continuous improvement.
  • Own headcount health, retention and performance within your scope. Raise issues early and don't let team problems compound.
  • Own protocol strategy
  • Develop and maintain a forward-looking view across the protocols the business participates in. Understand where each protocol is heading technically, what that means for our infrastructure and services and how it maps to business opportunity.
  • Be the connective tissue between protocol evolution (upgrades, forks, new mechanisms) and the engineering teams that have to respond to it.
  • Advise the Head of Blockchain Engineering and broader leadership on protocol-level risk, opportunity, and emerging areas worth pursuing.
  • Identify where emerging protocol developments represent material opportunities or threats for the business. Examples would be new L1s, staking mechanisms, oracle integrations, cross-chain primitives etc.
  • Operate the function
  • Hold the operational picture across the three teams: who is on what, what is at risk, what is blocked, what is shipping.
  • Make staffing and sequencing calls within your scope. Work with the Head of Blockchain Engineering and hiring to plan ahead.
  • Run the cadences and rituals that keep the function coherent without adding bureaucratic overhead.
  • Coordinate across DIS, client-facing teams, and engagement leads to ensure the protocol function is pointed at the highest-leverage work.
  • Support client and commercial work
  • Step into client conversations where protocol expertise at leadership level is needed, supplying technical depth, not just seniority.
  • Represent the protocol function in commercial discussions, scoping conversations and delivery reviews when protocol capability is at the core of what's being sold or delivered.
  • Translate protocol complexity into clarity for non-technical stakeholders internally and externally.

What We're Looking For:

  • Demonstrated protocol depth across at least two of: Ethereum (validator/consensus layer), Solana, or Chainlink/oracle networks. You should be able to hold technical ground with senior engineers on these stacks.
  • A track record managing technical teams, not just senior ICs but building and developing teams, holding people accountable, and navigating the harder parts of people leadership.
  • Experience operating in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment where protocol decisions have real business and client consequences.
  • Strong technical communication so you can take a protocol problem and explain it clearly to engineers, to clients, and to executives, adjusting for each.
  • Operational fluency where you've run the logistics of a multi-team function: capacity planning, sequencing, on-call, incident response, hiring. You can hold the whole picture and keep it moving.
  • High agency, low ego. You'll own a clear mandate and are expected to drive within it.
  • A genuine interest in where the protocol landscape is heading, not just maintaining what we run today, but positioning for what comes next.


Bonus Points:

  • Hands-on experience running or building validator or RPC infrastructure at institutional scale.
  • Familiarity with Chainlink CCIP, Data Feeds, or Functions. Understanding of the oracle layer as infrastructure, not just integration.
  • Experience with Solana's runtime, validator client architecture (Agave/Firedancer), or ecosystem tooling.
  • Background working alongside tier-1 financial institutions (banks, asset managers, custodians) as an engineering or protocol counterpart.
  • Exposure to staking economics, protocol governance, or technical due diligence on new chains.
  • Experience building or scaling a protocol engineering function from an early or mid-stage foundation.


What We Offer:
  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
  • Competitive paid time off
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
  • Free virtual coaching sessions through Headspace
  • Free daily snacks in-office
  • Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
  • Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues

*Benefits may vary depending on location.

About Galaxy Digital LP

Galaxy Digital was a radio station broadcasting through the digital platform across the United Kingdom and was owned by Global Radio. It primarily broadcast in areas where Galaxy was not represented on FM, such as London, Leicester, Nottingham, and Derbyshire. It also formerly broadcast in Central Scotland, until the relaunch of Xfm Scotland as Galaxy Scotland, at which point Galaxy Digital on DAB was replaced with a relay of Xfm London. The digital station was a 'sister' radio station to the local Galaxy Network services in various areas. The digital service was broadcast largely from the Galaxy Yorkshire studios, and much of the content networked across the group came from this location. Since Monday 21 January 2008, Galaxy Digital was changed from its own dedicated service to broadcast almost entirely as a direct relay of Galaxy Yorkshire, though the 'Across Yorkshire' on-air tagline was replaced by 'Across the UK' on the digital service.. Since Friday 21 March 2008, the radio station changed their 'Passion for Music, Passion for Life' strap-line slogan to 'Love Music' ; the tagline changed again in 2010 to "The UK's Number One Hit Music Station" in preparation for the impending Capital relaunch.
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80 employees
Industry
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