Trading Growth Lead

The Opportunity

Solana Foundation is seeking a Trading Growth Lead based in APAC to find desks, exchanges, and capital that move real volume across the region and win them onto Solana. Trading is one of the key use cases of Solana and covers spot, perps and prediction markets. Lending and the rest of DeFi matter here because they feed trading: margin, collateral, capital efficiency.

You own the accounts and how you win them — whether that be via incentives, VIP treatment, and or direct access to the product teams when a desk needs something built. This role is primarily outbound and relationship-focused. The ideal candidate already has an existing book of trading relationships across APAC and a track record of moving real volume in the region.

Who you are

• A native Mandarin speaker — fluent and credible with Greater China desks, funds, and exchanges in their own language, and able to operate across the region's key trading hubs.
• (Required.)
• A closer with an existing book — you already know the big traders, allocators, and LPs across APAC, and they take your call.
• Trading-first fluency — you understand market microstructure, perps funding and margin, spot liquidity, and how execution quality and incentives move flow. You hold your own with desk heads and quants.
• DeFi literacy to be credible — you understand all the core DeFi primitives and products on Solana and off of it. You understand capital efficiency, and how lending and looping involve leverage and volume, and hold that conversation with the desks who use them. You understand the RWA landscape and what a successful tokenization process looks like as well as what a successful GTM process involves.
• A track record of moving volume or flow — at an exchange, market maker, prop shop, fund, or protocol. You can point to flow you were directly responsible for.
• An operator who ships — based in APAC, able to run the region and coordinate across EU and Americas hours.