GK8 by Galaxy

GK8 by Galaxy

Protocol Director

Remote (US) · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
Incident ResponseLogisticsLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.
  • Galaxy is headquartered in New York City, with offices across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
  • To learn more about our businesses and products, visit www.galaxy.com.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Build Dream Teams.
  • High agency, low ego. You'll own a clear mandate and are expected to drive within it.
  • Develop and maintain a forward-looking view across the protocols the business participates in.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • You can hold the whole picture and keep it moving.

Nice to have

  • 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.

Compensation

  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
  • Competitive paid time off
  • Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
  • Smart, entrepreneurial, and fun colleagues
  • Own headcount health, retention and performance within your scope.
  • Benefits may vary depending on location.

Company info

  • Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world - and we're building the products and services to make that future a reality.
  • Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.
  • We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz, our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.
  • Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence.
  • We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world - and we're building the products and services to make that future a reality.
  • Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading, investment banking, asset management, staking, self-custody, and tokenization technology.
  • We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing, addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.
  • We work at the intersection of finance and technology, helping institutions, startups, and developers navigate a digitally native economy.
  • What We Value:
  • We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy.
  • We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach.
  • Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.
  • Seek Excellence.
  • Be Selective To Be Effective.
  • Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
  • Disagree Transparently.
  • Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Equal opportunity

  • We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.

Visa & Work Authorization

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