Chainlink Labs
Product Manager, Node Economics
United States
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 54 days ago
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About the role
- This role owns the incentive systems, compensation frameworks, and performance infrastructure that shape how Node Operators behave and how the network performs economically. You'll translate economic models into production-ready systems, tools, and communications that drive operator quality and align incentives with long-term network health.
- Success means Node Operators understand their performance, trust their compensation, and are incentivized in ways that reduce network cost and improve reliability. You'll work closely with economics, data science, and engineering teams, and have strong support from senior leadership as you grow into the role.
- Your Impact
Responsibilities
- Build the compensation and incentive systems that directly influence how Node Operators perform across a network securing the majority of DeFi and powering every Chainlink product
- Ship performance-based mechanisms that create measurable accountability and drive improvements in operator quality at scale
- Design and automate payment workflows that Node Operators can trust completely, eliminating manual steps and ensuring accuracy
- Deliver performance insights and tooling that give operators clear, actionable visibility into how they are performing and what they are earning
- Own the economic communications that help Node Operators understand complex changes and participate in new programs without disruption
- Shape how operators are allocated and evaluated across all Chainlink products, building the systems that make those processes consistent and fair
- You'll work closely with economics, data science, and engineering teams, and have strong support from senior leadership as you grow into the role.
Requirements
- Experience owning performance, rewards, or compensation systems end-to-end and delivering measurable improvements in outcomes
- Experience designing or improving payment and compensation workflows, including reducing manual processes and improving accuracy
- Track record of driving cross-functional work across engineering, data, and operations teams without direct authority
- Experience with crypto economics, staking mechanisms, or token-based incentive systems in production environments
- Direct experience with staking protocols or node operator programs
- Experience working at a protocol, L1/L2, or infrastructure company where token economics were central to the product
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Nice to have
- Preferred Requirements
Compensation
- This role owns the incentive systems, compensation frameworks, and performance infrastructure that shape how Node Operators behave and how the network performs economically.
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