Chainlink Labs

Senior Sales Executive

Chainlink Labs$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of total experience, with at least 5 years in institutional finance or business development
  • Strong understanding of traditional finance (TradFi) markets and infrastructure
  • Proven track record of building and maintaining relationships with institutional clients
  • Experience in a startup or fast-paced environment with standout individual results
  • Deep knowledge of decentralized finance (DeFi), tokenization, blockchain technology, and the Web3 ecosystem

Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day relationships with major TradFi accounts to ensure value delivery
  • Develop stakeholder mapping strategies to engage key decision-makers
  • Act as a trusted evangelist for Chainlink products, educating stakeholders
  • Drive pipeline generation through proactive opportunity identification
  • Facilitate seamless communication between clients and internal teams

Benefits

  • Global and remote work environment
  • Opportunity to overlap with Eastern Standard Time (EST) working hours
  • Thorough application review process with responses provided within two weeks
  • Encouragement for candidates to thoughtfully prepare applications based on their experiences
  • Focus on relationship-building and strategic alignment in a growing field
Full Job Description
About The Role

We are seeking a regional senior commercial individual to drive and cultivate deep relationships with TradFi customers. You will take ownership of major T1 customers & prospects, foster strong relationships internally with key decision makers and become an evangelist for the Chainlink Platform.

Your Impact
  • Own and manage day-to-day relationships with high-value TradFi accounts, ensuring consistent delivery of value and strategic alignment.
  • Develop and execute stakeholder mapping strategies to identify, engage, and deepen relationships with key decision-makers and influencers across client organizations.
  • Act as a trusted evangelist for Chainlink products and the broader platform, educating stakeholders on the strategic value of decentralized technologies.
  • Drive early-stage pipeline generation through proactive discovery, qualification, and identification of high-impact opportunities based on deep understanding of client needs.
  • Serve as the central liaison between clients and internal teams-including Deal Leads, Product, Legal, Marketing, and Technical Solutions-ensuring seamless communication and collaboration.

Requirements
  • 10+ years total experience, with a minimum of 5+ years of experience in institutional finance, business development, or related fields, with a strong understanding of TradFi markets and infrastructure
  • Experience working in a startup or fast-paced environment with evidence of converting high work ethic into stand out personal results
  • Strong relationship management ability to build and maintain strong relationships with institutional clients and partners
  • Demonstrated knowledge of DeFi protocols, tokenization, digital assets, blockchain technology, and the broader Web3 ecosystem


Preferred Requirements
  • 2+ years experience working in web3 environments or with decentralized applications (DApps), smart contracts, and blockchain technology.
  • Tokenization industry expertise - have a strong understanding of the Institutional RWA landscape and/or digital asset management, including an understanding of potential barriers to scale
  • Solid experience selling solutions to Financial Market Infrastructures

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

We carefully review all applications and aim to provide a response to every candidate within two weeks after the job posting closes. The closing date is listed on the job advert, so we encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully prepare your application. We want to fully consider your experience and skills, and you will hear from us regarding the status of your application shortly after the closing date.

About Chainlink Labs

Chainlink is a decentralized oracle network that enables smart contracts to securely access off-chain data feeds, web APIs, and traditional bank payments. Chainlink is consistently selected as one of the top blockchain technologies by leading independent research firms such as Gartner. Chainlink's decentralized oracle network provides reliable tamper-proof inputs and outputs for complex smart contracts on any blockchain. Chainlink is trusted by hundreds of organizations, from global enterprises to projects at the forefront of the blockchain economy, to deliver definitive truth via secure, reliable data feeds.
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