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Cryptographer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
LayerZero Labs is a research-driven protocol company building the infrastructure for cross-chain interoperability. We are looking for a Cryptographer to join our research team and contribute to the design, analysis, and implementation of cryptographic protocols at the core of our systems.
This is a full-time role based in Vancouver, BC. We provide relocation assistance and visa/immigration support for candidates requiring it.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and analyze cryptographic protocols with a focus on zero-knowledge proof systems (SNARKs/STARKs), proof aggregation, and recursive composition
- Contribute to applied research translating theoretical constructions into production-grade implementations
- Evaluate cryptographic assumptions and assess security of existing and proposed primitives
- Collaborate with low-level systems engineers on performance-critical implementations in Rust/C++
ABOUT YOU
- PhD (or equivalent research experience) in Cryptography, Mathematics, or Computer Science
- Deep expertise in the design and/or cryptanalysis of zero-knowledge proof systems or lattice-based schemes, including their related primitives
- Strong publication record or demonstrable open-source research contributions
- Comfort working at the intersection of theory and engineering — you can write a security proof, implement a cryptographic primitive, and benchmark code
- Experience with Rust or C++ is a strong plus
- Background in distributed computing or GPU development is a plus
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Controller
Controller
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
LayerZero is redefining how value moves across chains at internet scale. Our Finance team plays a critical role in enabling this mission by building financial infrastructure that is accurate, scalable, and trusted by leadership, partners, and regulators.
We’re looking for a Controller to lead and scale our global accounting function. This role owns the integrity of our financials end-to-end — from close and reporting to controls, audit, and compliance.
You’ll work closely with finance leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure our financial operations are world-class, scalable, and audit-ready as the organization grows. This is a high-impact leadership role with visibility across the business.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Own the Core Accounting Engine
- Lead and continuously improve the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes across all entities.
- Own the general ledger, consolidation, and financial reporting under US GAAP.
- Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness of all financials.
Day-to-Day Accounting & Systems
- Oversee AP, AR, payroll, and core accounting workflows across systems like NetSuite, Ramp, and payroll providers.
- Drive automation and system improvements to increase efficiency and reduce risk.
- Ensure subledgers and supporting schedules are clean and fully reconciled.
Crypto-Native Accounting & Complexity
- Oversee accounting for token activity, including transfers, incentives, and intercompany flows.
- Ensure alignment between on-chain activity and financial reporting.
- Develop scalable policies for digital asset accounting in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
Tax, Audit & Compliance
- Own relationships with auditors, tax advisors, and external partners.
- Lead annual audits, reviews, and compliance processes across jurisdictions.
- Ensure accounting policies align with US GAAP and evolving regulatory requirements.
Build for Scale
- Design and implement scalable accounting processes, controls, and policies.
- Identify risks, gaps, and inefficiencies — and proactively solve them.
- Build and mentor a high-performing accounting team.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 10–15+ years of experience in accounting, with a mix of public accounting and in-house leadership experience; CPA required
- Strong expertise in US GAAP, financial reporting, and internal controls
- Experience leading accounting in a multi-entity, high-growth environment
- Deep experience with NetSuite and scaling close processes
- Proven ability to build and manage high-performing teams
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Strong judgment and ability to navigate complex transactions
- Clear communicator who can explain accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders
- Experience at a high-growth tech, fintech, or crypto-native company
- Exposure to digital asset accounting, token models, or on-chain activity
- Experience leading audits and building accounting processes from scratch
- Familiarity with global tax and compliance considerations
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Technical Recruiter
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re building the next generation of talent at LayerZero. As our Technical Recruiter, you’ll be one of the first people candidates meet—and one of the most critical. You’ll help shape the future of our engineering teams, identify world-class talent across frontier tech domains, and design candidate journeys that are fast, rigorous, and deeply aligned to our values.
This role is based full-time in our Vancouver, BC office.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles across LayerZero: sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing
- Partner directly with hiring managers and engineers to define role profiles, build pipelines, and calibrate signal
- Craft bespoke outbound strategies tailored to high-caliber candidates (think Principal Engineers, Compiler Experts, Core Infra Builders)
- Deliver high-quality candidate experiences at pace—speed matters, but quality matters more
- Run structured, signal-rich interviews and guide interviewers through calibration and debriefs
- Become a system builder: help scale and improve how we run recruiting, not just run reqs
ABOUT YOU
- You’ve recruited for deeply technical roles before (backend, infra, systems, protocol, Rust)
- You know how to write compelling outbound that gets replies—and understand how to tailor messaging across profiles
- You’re comfortable assessing resumes, probing for signal, and escalating red flags early
- You care about candidate experience, but not at the expense of rigor
- You’re motivated by impact: you want to help define the DNA of an engineering org at the frontier
Bonus Points
- You’ve hired in early-stage environments before (0→1 recruiting muscle)
- You’re fluent in Web3, or technical enough to ramp quickly
- You’ve run debriefs, driven interviewer training, or contributed to rubric design
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Assistant Controller
Assistant Controller
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
LayerZero is redefining how value moves across chains at internet scale. Our Finance team plays a critical role in enabling this mission by building financial infrastructure that is accurate, scalable, and trusted by leadership, partners, and regulators.
We’re looking for a Assistant Controller to own day-to-day accounting operations and the monthly close process across our global entity structure. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who thrives on precision, structure, and operational excellence in fast-moving environments.
You’ll work closely with finance leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure our books are clean, processes are scalable, and financial reporting is reliable as the organization grows. This is a force-multiplier role with visibility across the business and the opportunity to grow into broader responsibilities over time.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Own the Core Accounting Engine
- Execute and continuously improve the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and audit readiness.
- Maintain the general ledger in NetSuite, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and intercompany activity.
- Reconcile bank accounts, corporate cards, payroll, and other balance sheet accounts.
Day-to-Day Accounting & Systems
- Own accounts payable and receivable workflows, including vendor onboarding, invoice processing, and payment runs using tools like Ramp.
- Partner with payroll providers (e.g., ADP) to ensure accurate payroll, benefits, bonus, and equity-related accounting.
- Maintain clean subledgers and supporting schedules that tie directly to the GL.
Crypto-Native Accounting & Complexity
- Account for token activity, including transfers, incentives, and related expense recognition, ensuring alignment between on-chain activity and the general ledger.
- Support crypto-specific accounting workflows and reconciliations as the business evolves.
- Partner with external specialists as needed on digital asset accounting considerations.
Tax, Audit & Compliance Support
- Support corporate tax filings (U.S. and international) by preparing schedules, documentation, and reconciliations.
- Work with external tax, audit, and advisory firms to support annual audits, reviews, and special projects.
- Ensure accounting policies and procedures align with US GAAP and scale with the business.
Build for Scale
- Document accounting processes and controls, creating clarity and repeatability as the team grows.
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and risks — and proactively design better workflows and controls.
- Act as a trusted accounting partner to finance leadership and cross-functional teams.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- 5–8+ years of experience in accounting, ideally with a mix of public accounting and in-house experience.
- Strong working knowledge of NetSuite and month-end close in a multi-entity environment.
- Hands-on experience with modern finance tools such as Ramp (or similar) and ADP (or similar payroll providers).
- Solid understanding of US GAAP, balance sheet accounting, and close best practices (CPA preferred, not required).
- Comfortable operating in high-growth, ambiguous environments where processes are built, not inherited.
- Detail-oriented, highly organized, and obsessed with accuracy — you close loops and don’t let issues linger.
- Clear communicator who can explain accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Institutional Business Development Intern
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
LayerZero is building the messaging protocol that allows blockchains to talk to each other. As the "TCP/IP" of the decentralized world, we are leading the charge in institutional blockchain adoption.
Central to this mission is Zero, our dedicated institutional chain developed in collaboration with industry titans including the DTCC, Citadel Securities, and ICE (Intercontinental Exchange). Zero is designed to provide the performance, compliance, and interoperability required for the next generation of global financial markets.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking an intellectually curious and highly motivated intern to join our Institutional Business Development team. In this role, you will report directly to LayerZero’s Banking and Capital Markets Lead, supporting high-priority industry initiatives and customer projects at the absolute forefront of digital assets.
This role is for someone who wants to be in the room as the world’s largest financial institutions move from "pilot" to "production." You will assist in building the strategic frameworks that help banks, asset managers, and market infrastructures transition to a blockchain-native future. This is a rare opportunity to act in an advisory capacity, helping institutions navigate the complexities of building on Zero and going cross-chain.
Start and end dates are flexible and being NYC-based is required as we have a strong in-office culture.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Institutional Playbook Development: Help create the "On-Chain Playbook" for global institutions. You will help define the legal, technical, and operational steps required for a firm to launch assets on Zero or utilize LayerZero for cross-chain settlement.
- Ecosystem Activation: Act in an advisory capacity for institutions building cross-chain and on Zero. You will assist in identifying specific use cases (e.g., intraday repo, tokenized collateral, 24/7 settlement) and help them realize their business objectives.
- Strategic Project Support: Work closely with the Banking and Capital Markets Lead on "Zero-to-One" initiatives involving our financial institution customers.
- Lead Development & Mapping: Support the mapping of the institutional landscape—identifying the right stakeholders within global financial institutions to drive adoption of our stack.
- Market Intelligence: Stay on the pulse of the convergence between TradFi and DeFi. You’ll summarize regulatory shifts, competitor moves, and new trends in digital assets to inform our GTM strategies.
- Enable and Evangelize: Help create professional decks, white papers, and case studies that articulate the value of Zero and the "Omnichain" standard to institutional committees and innovation labs.
WHO YOU ARE
- Deeply Curious: You follow the "Institutional Crypto" narrative closely. You’re interested in how institutions might leverage blockchain to solve settlement and liquidity challenges.
- Strategic Thinker: You enjoy breaking down a complex problem into a structured "Playbook." You can look at a bank’s manual process and envision a more efficient, automated version using tokenization.
- Proactive & Scrappy: You don't wait for instructions. If you don't know how a clearinghouse works, for example, you’ll spend the night researching it until you can explain it to the team.
- Versatile: You’re comfortable with a high level of responsibility and are excited about the opportunity to support a fast-moving team in a complex, evolving environment.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Crypto Business Development Intern
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly capable and motivated full-time intern to work closely with the Crypto BD team on client management, deal origination and closure, research and more. This role will support Senior BD Leads, as well as giving you a chance to lead deals of your own - the perfect opportunity to break into the crypto space, and definitely not a traditional cookie-cutter internship. This is a paid opportunity.
In addition to helping drive business development, you will also play a key role in supporting GTM initiatives, participating in flagship conferences, and establishing thought leadership through an active online and offline presence. You will help to represent our mission to the broader crypto ecosystem, helping to ensure we are viewed in market as the leading provider of blockchain infrastructure.
This role requires versatility, combining skills in business development, partnership management, brand-building, and operational execution. Success will require entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and a high degree of ownership to adapt and execute in a complex and evolving environment.
Our team leaves egos at the door, works hard, has big ambitions, and is passionate about building the infrastructure interoperability layer of tomorrow. We expect the same from you. The working environment is fast paced with plenty of ambiguity, change, and odd hours. You have to be okay with that as we continue to grow and mature as an organization, but if you are, this is the role for you.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Market Research & Development
- Analyze the market to identify unique opportunities, competitors, and new trends within the broader crypto ecosystem
- Lead Generation
- Drive growth through prospecting and qualification within the crypto BD vertical through various channels (X.com, LinkedIn, conferences), generating net new opportunities and meetings for the Crypto BD team
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work cross-functionally across teams on Ecosystem and GTM to drive meaningful integrations and initiatives, draft impactful customer proposals aligned to our business standards
- Enable and Evangelize
- Help enable teams to build out their core protocol functionalities using the LayerZero stack. Be an evangelist around LayerZero’s core ethos, the opportunities available through using the protocol, and the support and guidance given by the LayerZero team
WHO YOU ARE
- You’re extremely knowledgeable on all things DeFi - you know current trends, interesting projects, the mechanics of interoperability, the direction of the industry over the next year, etc. You’re someone who reads protocol docs for fun and then tests their knowledge by using the live app; you’re also constantly looking for the next great company/idea/vertical in crypto
- You’ve demonstrated your interest in crypto publicly - you’ve written blogs, posted on X, participated in groups, and shared your learnings with others
- You’re a natural problem solver who is highly organized and can juggle multiple tasks at once
- You’re proactive, take initiative, and thrive in fast-paced, ever-changing environments. Ideally, you’ve worked in a startup environment before, and wanted to go back for more
- You have a solid understanding of business development operations, including deal tracking, pipeline management and forecasting
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and you enjoy working across different teams
- You’re comfortable with a high level of responsibility and are excited about the opportunity to support the crypto team closely and actively
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Customer Success Manager
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
LayerZero is looking for an experienced customer-facing professional to manage and grow our relationships with a variety of customers. The right candidate is a natural at building strong partnerships and has demonstrated success owning and growing customer relationships (cross-selling/up-selling, increasing product utilization, senior stakeholder management). In this role, you will focus on managing a portfolio of LayerZero customer accounts, primarily chains and mid-level accounts.
Our team leaves egos at the door, works hard, has big ambitions, and is passionate about building the infrastructure operability layer of tomorrow. We expect the same from you.
The working environment is fast pace with plenty of ambiguity, change, and odd hours. You have to be okay with that as we continue to grow and mature as an organization.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Account Strategy:
- Develop tailored strategies for each account to drive growth, adoption, and usage of LayerZero’s products
- Onboarding and Education:
- Lead the onboarding process for users, providing guidance on navigating the LayerZero offerings
- Develop and deliver educational resources, workshops, and materials tailored to the intricacies of our protocol and the broader industry
- User Engagement and Relationship Building:
- Proactively engage with users to understand their goals, challenges, and objectives in the context of interoperability infrastructure
- Build and nurture relationships with key stakeholders in the industry, becoming a trusted advisor to our users
- Product Adoption:
- Collaborate with our users to identify opportunities for increased adoption of LayerZero offerings
- Facilitate training sessions and provide hands-on support to empower users in navigating and utilizing LayerZero
- Health Monitoring:
- Monitor and analyze user engagement metrics specific to assess account health
- Proactively identify and address potential challenges unique to the interoperability landscape, collaborating with the product team for solutions
- Issue Resolution and Advocacy:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for users, addressing inquiries, issues, and concerns related to implementation of LayerZero offerings
- Advocate for user needs within the organization and collaborate with the development team to enhance the user experience
- Community Engagement:
- Actively participate in Web3 and blockchain communities to stay informed about industry trends, emerging technologies, and user sentiments
- Represent the company in community forums and events, fostering a sense of belonging and connection
ABOUT YOU
- 2-5 years of business development and/or account management experience
- A good understanding of the Web3 industry
- Technical expertise is a plus
- You're a natural problem solver who is highly organized and can juggle multiple tasks at once
- You have a solid understanding of business development operations, including deal tracking, pipeline management and forecasting
- You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and you enjoy working across different teams
- You're proactive, take initiative, and thrive in fast-paced, ever-changing environments
- You're comfortable with a high level of responsibility and are excited about the opportunity to support an executive closely
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Business Operations Lead
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Business Operations Lead to join our Business Development team. This is a dynamic role that combines elements of business development operations, strategic support, and organizational management. You’ll play a crucial role in helping to streamline business processes, assist with key product launches, and manage internal and external business development (BD) initiatives.
The Business Operations Lead is designed to be a strategic enabler for this mission. By owning the operational backbone of our go-to-market engine, you will remove friction, improve execution speed, and ensure the BD team operates at peak performance. You will serve as the “glue” between BD and its cross-functional partners, abstracting away internal complexity so the revenue team can focus on what it does best: winning business.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Core Business Strategy
- Strategic Advisory: Serve as a strategic right hand to the Chief Business Officer. Provide hands-on advisory across CRM strategy, internal process design, team organizational op model, data insights and day-to-day operational decision making. You’ll be the CBO’s go-to partner for ensuring execution of strategic priorities throughout the year.
- Data-Driven Insights: Deliver analysis that helps inform team performance in market, product utilization, forecasting insights, and revenue trends for BD.
- Customer Prioritization: Build and maintain account/client tiering and prioritization frameworks that help BD focus on the highest-value opportunities.
Operational Execution
- Global OKR Management & Tracking: Oversee and track BD objectives and key results (OKRs), ensuring alignment with our long-term vision and strategy.
- BD Operations Management: Handle day-to-day business development operations, including pipeline management, deal flow, and forecasting, to ensure the team meets its objectives efficiently.
- BD Ops Trainings: Develop and run training sessions for the business development team, empowering them with the tools and processes needed to succeed.
- Orchestrate BD Presence: Help orchestrate LayerZero's presence in both internal and external BD activities, coordinating participation in key meetings, events, and collaborations.
- Product Launches: Assist with go-to-market (GTM) strategies and product launches, ensuring alignment with business development efforts and customer engagement.
WHO YOU ARE
- 3–5+ years of experience in business operations, revenue operations, sales operations, or a similar function, ideally within a tech startup, high-growth, or Web3 environment.
- Deep understanding of BD/sales operations: pipeline management, deal tracking, CRM administration, and forecasting methodologies.
- Proven ability to build and improve operational processes from the ground up (SOPs, automation, cross-functional workflows).
- Strong analytical skills with experience building dashboards, performance reports, and data-driven recommendations.
- Excellent cross-functional communication. You thrive as the connective tissue between BD, Finance, Legal, Product, and Marketing.
- Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity.
- Familiarity with CRM platforms (HubSpot, Salesforce, Linear, or similar) and modern GTM tooling.
- Experience supporting or partnering closely with executive leadership is a strong plus.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Systems Engineer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re seeking a Systems Engineer to join LayerZero. In this role, you’ll build the foundational systems that power our execution and infrastructure layers, including Zero.
This is a low-level, performance-critical role focused on runtime architecture, concurrency, and scalable execution. You will make architectural decisions that directly impact how our systems execute, scale, and remain stable under load.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Architect high-performance systems and leverage AI to implement them in Rust.
- Build and optimize core runtime, networking, or state management components.
- Profile and improve performance both at low-level (CPU, memory) and cluster-scale (network, scheduling).
- Debug race conditions, deadlocks, and production performance issues.
- Contribute to architectural decisions around scheduling, synchronization, and system scalability.
- Own systems end-to-end from design through production.
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience building systems-level or performance-critical software.
- Strong proficiency in systems programming and leveraging AI to build software.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, CPU architecture, cache hierarchy, and operating systems .
- Experience designing or contributing to low-level storage, compute, or network infrastructure.
- Strong intuition for striking a pragmatic balance between complexity for performance and simplicity for robustness
- Experience using low-level profiling and debugging tools in production environments.
- Interest in working on distributed and execution-layer systems.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Data Analyst
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As we continue to grow at LayerZero, we're faced with an exciting set of challenges: more data, more developers, more teams, more projects, and more opportunities for innovation. To tackle these problems head-on, we're expanding our data team with a dedicated Data Analyst.
As a Data Analyst at LayerZero, you'll be at the forefront of shaping a rich data foundation for a company that's making a real impact in the web3 space. You'll work closely with teams and leaders to uncover insights, drive decision-making, and fuel our next-generation products and services.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
As a key member of the data team at LayerZero, you'll be diving headfirst into the world of crypto data - exploring on-chain wallets and contracts, block and transaction data, insights from in-house systems, and third-party intelligence. Your mission will be to combine these diverse datasets into rich, actionable data products for a broad group of stakeholders.
- Leveraging and expanding our ever-growing Kimball dimensional model.
- Writing SQL to create and expand insights in our in-house reporting solutions.
- Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to conduct ad-hoc explorations and analytics - from engineering questions to help understand production issues to product insights that illuminate the broader crypto landscape.
- Be a key owner of data quality, building out insights that serve the data team itself to help guide our data efforts towards cleaner and richer data.
- Compose pipelines by writing SQL code to clean, combine, refine, and aggregate data into the insights the organization needs.
- Collaborating on new datasets to ingest into our Snowflake data warehouse, working closely with data engineers on your team.
- Not afraid of pushing code that supports tens of billions of dollars in daily transaction volume.
WHO YOU ARE
We are looking for someone with previous data analyst experience. Likely with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or related field, but we also consider and highly value equivalent practical experience.
Required
- Strong SQL knowledge and experience
- Proven track record in data modeling, statistics, and analytics
- Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders
- Strong convictions weakly held.
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced start-up environment, where you'll need to take initiative and solve problems independently.
- You understand the importance of data quality through incremental data development.
Nice to have
- Experience with general programming, we use Python and Go on the data stack
- Experience with Snowflake
- Experience building DAG based data pipelines
- Experience with streaming real-time data pipelines
- Previous experience with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance
- Experience with Kimball dimensional modeling
- Working on a mid-to-large scale data stacks
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Staff Solutions Architect
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Solutions Architect, you are the technical owner of the customer journey from first deep‑dive through successful production deployment.
You will lead discovery, design architectures, build proof‑of‑concepts, and clearly explain how LayerZero fits into a customer’s existing stack (on‑chain, off‑chain, and AI/data systems). You’ll work closely with our FDEs and Product teams to ensure what we propose is not only compelling, but actually shippable and supportable.
This is a hands‑on, customer‑facing role - not a pure slideware or support function. You’ll be expected to whiteboard, write code for demos and POCs, and speak fluently about both Web3 primitives and modern software & architecture.
LayerZero’s Solutions Architecture team is the technical front line for our go‑to‑market motion. We partner closely with Business Development, Forward Deployed Engineering, and core Product/Protocol teams to help customers design and adopt cross‑chain architectures built on LayerZero.
We engage with a wide range of organizations - from DeFi protocols and Web3 infrastructure teams, to global banks, asset managers, and enterprises exploring blockchain and AI‑driven use cases - and act as trusted advisors on interoperability, security, and system design.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Partner with BD and Sales to qualify opportunities, run technical discovery, and map customer requirements to concrete interoperability designs.
- Design reference and bespoke architectures that integrate LayerZero with customer systems - including smart contracts, wallets/custody, trading or settlement systems, data platforms, and banking/payments rails.
- Lead technical presentations, workshops, and demos, tailoring the depth to audiences ranging from protocol engineers to C‑level executives.
- Build and validate POCs and pilot integrations, often writing or reviewing code (e.g., smart contracts, backend services, or sample apps) to prove out patterns.
- Document architectures, integration plans, and best practices, including sequence diagrams, threat models, and rollout strategies.
- Collaborate with Integrations/Forward Deployed Engineering on hand‑offs from POC to production, ensuring continuity and a clean path to scale.
- Advise on security and reliability for cross‑chain flows: failure modes, monitoring, incident response, and operational runbooks.
- Stay current on Web3 trends (L1/L2 roadmaps, bridging standards, custody, regulation) and use that knowledge to shape customer strategy.
- Gather structured field feedback and feed it back into Product and Protocol teams, influencing our roadmap and SDKs.
- Contribute to external‑facing content - sample apps, blog posts, talks, and reference architectures that help the ecosystem build better cross‑chain systems.
ABOUT YOU
- Have 5–10+ years in customer facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform/Infra Engineer, or Protocol Engineer.
- Have a strong grasp of blockchain fundamentals and Web3 architecture: consensus basics, L1/L2 and rollups, bridging models, wallets and signing, vaults, custody, and common DeFi patterns.
- Are comfortable reading and writing code - ideally in TypeScript, Rust, Go, and/or Solidity - and can quickly understand someone else’s stack.
- Have deep experience with integration architecture patterns and APIs (REST/gRPC/WebSockets, webhooks, event streams, OAuth/identity, etc.).
- Can explain complex technical concepts simply, adapting your language for engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders.
- Enjoy whiteboarding, system design, and storytelling, and can guide a customer from vague ideas to concrete architecture and rollout plans.
- Are comfortable in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment, juggling multiple high‑stakes accounts at once.
- Bonus: have worked with financial services, trading, or other highly regulated industries and understand their risk, compliance, and integration constraints.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Product Manager
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a technical Product Manager with a computer science background, hands-on software engineering experience, and a track record of building and shipping developer-focused software products. You will act as the connective tissue across engineering, design, and external partners; owning the problem space, driving clarity, and pushing execution from 0→1 and beyond.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own end-to-end product development for core LayerZero infrastructure and API surfaces - vision, roadmap, requirements, and execution.
- Partner closely with engineers; understand technical constraints, read code-level designs, and actively participate in architectural discussions.
- Drive alignment across teams by overcommunicating vision, use cases, and decisions - tailoring communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Maintain relentless clarity on user needs by continually engaging with developers, partners, and integrators; synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights.
- Break down ambiguous problems, validate assumptions, and prevent premature solutioning; ensure the team is solving the right problems.
- Advocate for design quality and usability, even for deeply technical workflows; sweat the details.
- Influence cross-functional stakeholders through trust, execution, and strong product judgment, not authority.
- Unblock engineering, drive momentum, and take ownership for outcomes end-to-end.
ABOUT YOU
- You have a computer science degree or equivalent technical background.
- You have 2–5+ years of software engineering experience and can comfortably lead technical discussions.
- You have 3–6+ years of product management experience, ideally owning API, developer, or infrastructure products.
- You think like an owner; you drive work forward even without authority or perfect information.
- You communicate clearly, proactively, and repeatedly to ensure alignment. You are able to effectively tailor your communication to different types of stakeholders.
- You are comfortable in fast-moving, low-process environments and thrive in ambiguity.
- You care deeply about quality, user experience, and execution.
- Ideally, you have experience in Web3, distributed systems, or developer-focused platforms, but it’s not required.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Vertical Marketing Manager - Institutions
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
ABOUT THE ROLE
LayerZero builds infrastructure so any asset, application, or company can use crypto rails at internet scale. We’re reinventing how value moves online by solving for interoperability amongst blockchains – a problem we believe the world will value in trillions.
We’re looking for a Vertical Marketing Manager – Institutions to create the content and campaigns that help banks, asset managers, fintechs, and other enterprise audiences understand and adopt crypto. You’ll produce the materials that make it into boardrooms, get forwarded to decision-makers, and shape not just how institutions think about tokenization, digital assets, and blockchain integration, but how they implement it.
This is a content-driven role with a clear goal: find the right institutional audiences, care what matters to them, and deliver targeted campaigns and events that lead to action. You’ll work closely with Business Development and Investor Relations to refine messaging through real sales conversations, create assets for every stage of the funnel, and influence legacy institutions to tokenize the right way.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
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Produce Best-in-Class Institutional Content
- Develop and deliver case studies, research reports, explainer decks, solution briefs, whitepapers, and sales enablement materials tailored for banks, asset managers, fintechs, and other institutional stakeholders. This content should be the type of material that gets forwarded around by your friends still in tradfi.
- Distill complex technical capabilities into language that resonates with more risk-conscious, ROI-focused decision makers.
Be the voice of institutional audiences
- Plan and execute targeted marketing initiatives, from thought leadership series to data-driven reports that showcase how financial institutional are (or should) think about tokenization, managing digital assets, and incorporating crypto rails into their businesses.
- Work with BD and IR teams to ensure they have the right assets for every stage of the sales cycle. This role should be responsible for trying out content, developing an opinion about what is landing, helping the BD team test it in a sales funnel, and using those insights to reinforce success in the market.
- Plan and support LayerZero’s participation in key events, roundtables, and forums that drive institutional conversations both online and in person.
Be Obsessed with Data
- Be curious finding interesting insights that go beyond the basic 101 content. You should be comfortable working with data or data teams to back every claim with real-world usage data, industry benchmarks, and credible sources.
- This role will be responsible for helping “train the trainer”, helping individuals at more traditional companies not just understand where the industry is headed but be able to articulate it back to their less savvy coworkers, clients or peers.
Measure Impact and Iterate
- Track asset usage, campaign performance, and content engagement to continuously improve quality and effectiveness. We expect this person to test out new channels and strategies, so should quickly develop an opinion on what works or doesn’t.
ABOUT YOU
- 3-5 years of experience in product marketing, content marketing, or sales enablement with a focus on institutional finance, fintech, or crypto strongly preferred.
- Ability to produce high-quality, multi-format content for technical or regulated audiences.
- Exceptional writing skills, able to craft content that is precise, credible, and persuasive for C-suite and technical decision-makers.
- Highly organized, with the ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and meet tight deadlines.
- Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
- A genuine interest in the intersection of crypto and institutional finance, and the trends shaping adoption.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Frontend Engineer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Architect and design core product features from start to finish; from conception and research to implementation and iteration, all the way through deployment, maintenance, and future iterations
- Help architect and build performant backend systems for serving our core marketplace features
- Think holistically about how parts of our systems fit together from the UX to the underlying APIs and data models
- Mentor and train other team members on best practices and approaching large ambiguous problems
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to prioritize, scope, and architect new features
- Prioritize projects and tasks based on impact; balancing moving fast and building for the long haul
ABOUT YOU
- Deep knowledge of web technologies and large-scale web application architectures
- Familiarity with current trends and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, security, and usability
- 2+ years of industry experience building scalable and performant production UIs and APIs using a stack similar but not limited to React, Typescript, AWS and Elasticsearch
- Strong customer empathy; you think critically of how our features impact our community, users, and business
- You enjoy working across Engineering and Design to build user friendly applications
- Interest in the Blockchain space
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Solutions Architect Lead - Hong Kong
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly skilled Web3 Solutions Architect, specializing in interoperability and cross-chain infrastructure to join our dynamic team. This role will play a critical part in presenting and promoting our product suite to potential clients and users, guiding them through the technical aspects of our offerings, ensuring successful integration into their existing systems, and influencing our solutions strategy.
Our team leaves egos at the door, works hard, has big ambitions, and is passionate about building the infrastructure operability layer of tomorrow. We expect the same from you.
The working environment is fast pace with plenty of ambiguity, change, and odd hours. You have to be okay with that as we continue to grow and mature as an organization.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Client Engagement: Collaborate with the Business Development team to engage potential clients, understanding their needs, and presenting tailored solutions that address their interoperability and cross-chain integration challenges.
- Technical Presentations: Deliver clear, technical presentations and product demonstrations, explaining the features and benefits of our solutions in relation to interoperability infrastructure.
- Technical Consultation: Serve as a technical consultant to clients, answering questions, addressing concerns, and guiding them through the implementation process.
- Needs Assessment: Analyze client requirements, providing input to the product team to ensure solutions are aligned with market demands and industry trends.
- Proposal Development: Work with the Business Development team to develop comprehensive proposals, including technical specifications, integration plans, and cost estimates.
- Project Coordination: Coordinate with clients, developers, and internal teams to ensure smooth project execution, identifying and addressing any technical issues that arise during implementation.
- Research: Stay current on developments in blockchain and Web3 technologies, particularly in interoperability and cross-chain communication, and integrate new insights into client engagements.
- Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including implementation guides, FAQs, and troubleshooting resources, to support clients and internal teams.
ABOUT YOU
- 4-8 years of technical, solution, and/or customer engineering
- A good understanding of the Web3 industry
- Ability to establish trust with users and ability to influence key decision makers in the sales cycle
- Hands on experience with middleware, integration architecture patterns, web services technologies, and APIs
- Experience in any of the following is a plus: Golang, Rust, JS, Ruby, Python, C++, C, or Solidity
- Experience building and delivering Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and responding to functional and technical elements of proposals independently and effectively
- Ability to lead architectural discussions
- A passion for technology and translating that passion into business impact for customers
- Excellent verbal communication, written communication, and presentation skills in front of all audiences
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent work experience is required for this role
- This role requires professional proficiency in Mandarin to support client engagements and technical discussions
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Protocol Engineer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Protocol Engineer, you'll work on the core infrastructure that underpins decentralized interoperability. You will design and implement core protocol components that operate across heterogeneous chains with rigorous security and performance constraints. You’ll be part of a deeply technical team working across LayerZero’s protocol and smart contract surface, contributing to novel cross-chain primitives and helping shape the architecture of systems used by some of the most demanding applications in Web3.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design and implement core protocol contracts and logic on both EVM and non-EVM chains (e.g., message validators, data availability mechanisms, proof verification).
- Collaborate with various teams to develop new system primitives, validate security assumptions, and improve protocol robustness.
- Own components across their lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
- Contribute to high-assurance engineering practices: formal verification, invariant testing, simulation frameworks, fuzzing, and audit readiness.
- Investigate emerging cryptographic techniques and novel designs to enhance trust minimization and scalability.
- Optimize for correctness and safety in gas-constrained environments, with an emphasis on upgradeability, modularity, and composability.
- Keep pace with changes across LayerZero-supported chains to ensure cross-chain compatibility and performance.
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong smart contract development experience in Solidity or equivalent languages, with a focus on correctness, modularity, and gas efficiency.
- Have built protocol-level infrastructure: bridges, interoperability layers, state sync systems, light clients, or equivalent.
- Write clear, well-tested, and secure code and have strong opinions on security models and upgradeability patterns.
- Familiar with distributed systems fundamentals and have good intuition around adversarial conditions in blockchain environments.
- Experience working with workflow engines.
- Previous experience with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance is a strong plus.
The base salary for this position ranges from $120,000/year up to $250,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. LayerZero is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Business Development Lead - Hong Kong
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly driven Hong Kong Lead to own and operate our presence in one of the most important global financial hubs. This role will oversee all market-building activities in Hong Kong, with a focus on the stablecoin and real-world asset (RWA) sectors. You will be responsible for managing the full client pipeline, from prospecting to deal closure, while maintaining strategic relationships with institutions, financial service companies, and regulators. In addition to driving the sales pipeline, you will also play a critical role in shaping our brand in Hong Kong. This includes supporting marketing initiatives, participating in flagship conferences, and establishing thought leadership through an active offline presence. As the face of LayerZero in the market, you will represent our vision to the local ecosystem, ensuring we are viewed as the leading interoperability infrastructure provider in Hong Kong.
This is a high-impact role that requires a mix of strategic thinking, sales execution, and operational excellence. You will represent our company in one of the most dynamic markets for digital assets and financial innovation, acting as both a relationship builder and a business operator.
Our team leaves egos at the door, works hard, has big ambitions, and is passionate about building the infrastructure operability layer of tomorrow. We expect the same from you.
The working environment is fast paced with plenty of ambiguity, change, and odd hours. You have to be okay with that as we continue to grow and mature as an organization.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Market Leadership: Lead our Hong Kong operations, building and executing a strategy to expand our footprint in the stablecoin and RWA sectors.
- Pipeline Ownership: Manage the entire sales pipeline from prospecting to deal closure, ensuring a consistent flow of high-quality opportunities.
- Client Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with key institutional clients, financial service firms, and regulators.
- Deal Execution: Structure, negotiate, and close complex deals that drive adoption of our technology in Hong Kong.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Represent the company in discussions with regulators, policymakers, and industry bodies to help shape the future of digital assets in the region.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with internal BD, product, and solutions teams to deliver value to clients and ensure alignment with global priorities.
- Market Development: Identify new opportunities across RWAs, stablecoins, and related sectors, acting as an entrepreneur within the organization.
WHO YOU ARE
- 6+ years of professional experience, with significant exposure to financial services, fintech, or digital assets.
- Strong understanding of stablecoins, RWAs, and the broader digital asset ecosystem.
- Proven ability to manage full-cycle business development, from origination to deal closure.
- Deep experience in managing institutional relationships, including regulators and financial service companies.
- Demonstrated ability to operate with high agency in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Strong sales acumen combined with operational rigor and strategic thinking.
- Exceptional communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to wear many hats and independently drive market development.
- Professional proficiency in English is required, and fluency in Cantonese or Mandarin is a strong plus.
- A passion for building in the intersection of finance and technology.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Backend Engineer
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're seeking a talented Backend Engineer to join our team at LayerZero, where you'll play a pivotal role in revolutionizing blockchain interoperability and shaping the future of decentralized applications. As a Backend Engineer, you'll spearhead the development of robust and scalable backend systems that power our web3 technologies.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- You have a strong understanding of backend system design and have designed complex distributed systems in the past.
- You are comfortable writing clean, scalable, and well-tested code.
- You enjoy working in a fast-paced start-up environment, where you'll need to take initiative and solve problems independently.
- Pushing code that supports tens of billions of dollars of daily transactional volume doesn't scare you.
- You are curious and eager to learn new technologies and design patterns.
- You're not afraid to navigate up and down a deep technical stack. You don't define yourself by the tools you know, only by the problems you solve.
- You are able to articulate complex technical concepts clearly and succinctly.
- You have excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of experience in backend development, building and maintaining scalable, production-grade systems.
- You have conviction in your architecture/designs/ideas but are open minded to share and build solutions with others.
- Experience with AWS services, particularly related to deploying, managing, and scaling applications.
- Proficiency in backend development languages, such as Typescript.
- Experience working with workflow engines.
- Previous experience with blockchain technologies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance is a strong plus.
The base salary for this position ranges from $120,000/year up to $200,000/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. LayerZero is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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Business Development Lead - Japan
LayerZero
The Future is Omnichain.
Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains.
We are funded by the best investors in the world including:
a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a highly capable Japan Lead to establish and grow our presence in one of the most strategically important markets in Asia. This role will oversee all market-building activities in Japan, managing the full client pipeline from origination to deal closure, while cultivating strategic relationships with leading enterprises, institutions, partners, and regulators.
In addition to driving business development, you will also play a critical role in shaping our brand in Japan. This includes supporting marketing initiatives, participating in flagship conferences, and establishing thought leadership through an active offline presence. As the face of LayerZero in the market, you will represent our vision to the local ecosystem, ensuring we are viewed as the leading interoperability infrastructure provider in Japan.
This role requires versatility, combining business development, partnership management, brand-building, and operational execution. Success will require entrepreneurship, critical thinking, and a high degree of ownership to adapt and execute in a complex and evolving environment.
Our team leaves egos at the door, works hard, has big ambitions, and is passionate about building the infrastructure operability layer of tomorrow. We expect the same from you.
The working environment is fast paced with plenty of ambiguity, change, and odd hours. You have to be okay with that as we continue to grow and mature as an organization.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Market Leadership: Lead our Japan operations, developing and executing a strategy to expand adoption of our solutions across multiple verticals.
- Pipeline Ownership: Manage the entire sales pipeline from prospecting to deal closure, ensuring consistent growth opportunities.
- Client Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with enterprises, ecosystem partners, and regulators in Japan.
- Deal Execution: Structure, negotiate, and close deals that drive adoption and long-term partnerships.
- Brand & Marketing: Support local marketing and partnership initiatives in collaboration with our marketing team, building our brand presence and ensuring consistent messaging in Japan.
- Thought Leadership: Represent the company at flagship conferences and industry events, becoming a visible and credible voice for LayerZero in Japan.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Contribute to ecosystem development by engaging with regulators, industry bodies, and thought leaders.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with global BD, product, and marketing teams to ensure alignment and client success.
- Market Development: Identify and pursue new opportunities across Web3, financial services, and enterprise sectors, operating with entrepreneurial drive.
WHO YOU ARE
- 6+ years of professional experience, ideally with exposure to technology, fintech, or Web3.
- Strong understanding of Japan’s business and regulatory environment, with networks across relevant industries.
- Proven ability to manage end-to-end business development, from origination to deal closure.
- Demonstrated success in managing senior-level relationships with enterprises, partners, and regulators.
- Experience supporting marketing campaigns and brand-building activities, including event and conference participation.
- Strong strategic thinking, sales acumen, and operational execution skills.
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity and take ownership in a fast-moving environment.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence at the executive level.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, comfortable wearing many hats and acting as the face of the company in the market.
- Professional proficiency in both Japanese and English is required.
- A passion for building at the intersection of technology, finance, and innovation.
Equal Opportunity Employer
LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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