**Job Summary **
Reporting into the APAC BD team, you will lead Polygon Business and Operations efforts in India
You’ll set and execute Polygon India Strategy in alignment with Polygon 2.0 vision.
As a BD head, you’ll be responsible for BD team in country, and for Tier 1 partnerships that will grow the Polygon ecosystem

**Key Job Responsibilities**
**Strategic Blockchain Adoption: **Develop a strategic plan for the adoption of Polygon's blockchain solutions in the Indian market, considering the specific needs and challenges of the region's businesses and government entities.

**Team Leadership**: Guide and grow the India BD team to grow the Polygon footprint, while remaining level headed and aligned with the wider team strategy.

**Partnership Development**: Forge partnerships and collaborations with blockchain startups, technology providers, corporations, financial institutions, VCs and governmental bodies in India to promote the adoption of Polygon's blockchain solutions.

**Networking**: Building key relationships with new and existing key players. Attending key events and leveraging that network to close deals. 
**Market Research**: Be in tune with market trends, customer demands, competitive solutions and share the information with the team.

**Company Engagement**: Identify, engage and close deals with companies interested in Polygon's blockchain applications, showcasing the benefits of Polygon's technology for their businesses and facilitating the integration of Polygon's solutions.

**Compliance and Regulation**: Stay informed about blockchain-related regulations and compliance requirements in India, ensuring that all Polygon's blockchain initiatives align with legal standards.

**Market Expansion**: Lead efforts to expand Polygon's blockchain-related services and products across the region, including market entry strategies and expansion plans.

**Blockchain Advocacy**: Act as an advocate for Polygon's blockchain technology, participating in industry events, conferences, and forums to promote awareness and adoption.

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Collaborate closely with technical teams at Polygon, legal experts, and compliance officers to ensure the successful implementation and operation of Polygon's blockchain projects.

**Reporting and Metrics**: Provide regular reports on the progress of Polygon's blockchain initiatives, including key performance indicators, project milestones, and financial results.




**What you’ll need- Preferred Qualifications**
**Web3 and Blockchain Expertise:** Extensive experience ( minimum of 7 years) in sales or business development, particularly with at least 3 years in the blockchain space, showcasing a deep understanding of blockchain technology, its applications, and its role in the crypto space.

**Team Management:** Proven track record in managing a team of BDs or Sales. Setting regional executing strategy, and ensuring bilateral business reporting and collaboration with company executives

**Relationship Building:** A proven track record of establishing and nurturing high-level relationships and presenting innovative blockchain solutions to drive growth.
Entrepreneurial Mindset: A self-driven and entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrating your ability to take initiative and adapt to evolving market dynamics within the blockchain ecosystem.

**Web3 Ecosystem Knowledge**: Knowledge of the broader blockchain ecosystem, including NFTs, DeFi ecosystems, Digital Identity solutions, ZK (Zero-Knowledge) technology, and emerging Web3 concepts.

Head of Business Development

**Job Summary**
As Blockchain Protocol Architect you will report directly to the SVP of Protocol Research and Development.

As a senior technical leader you will provide technical, architectural and implementation oversight across all of the core protocol teams and functions including proof-of-stake (PoS), Supernets and zkEVM roll-ups.

You will work closely with senior engineers on the core protocol teams to implement improvements using best-practice methodologies and driving deployment to our production systems through our diverse ecosystem.

You will have high visibility within and outside the organization as a recognized protocol expert and visionary.



**What you’ll need- Preferred Qualifications**
Deep familiarity and a proven track record with Ethereum, related technologies, rollup protocols, their trade-offs, scalability issues and potential attack vectors.

Mastery of several modern programming languages, with Go as a minimum requirement. 

Demonstrated Rust expertise is highly desirable.
Deep familiarity and experience with distributed systems engineering, protocols and architecture.

Minimum 8+ years of senior development experience, with 3 or more recently in the blockchain or cryptography industry.

Experience is mentoring and developing less-experienced engineers.

Ability to work in a face-paced, independent start-up-like environment.

Blockchain Protocol Architect

**Job Summary**
As a Financial Analyst at Polygon, you will be working closely with the accounting and finance leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan


**What you’ll need - Preferred Qualifications**
Bachelor's degree in finance/accounting
Minimum of 3 years of relevant analytical experience
Strong quantitative abilities
Able to solve complex problems
Excellent communication skills with ability to build relationships
Strong influencing and interpersonal skills
High level of  commercial acumen
Advanced Excel spreadsheet skills
Experience with Netsuite is a plus


**Key Job Responsibilities**
Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts
Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors
Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
Provide detailed analysis and  commentary on cost center results
Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives
Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets
Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations
Provide insights to senior management around financial modeling, forecasts and profitability

Financial Analyst

**Job Summary**

As Growth (DeFi) Product Manager, you will report into the DeFi lead, and work cross-functionally, both internally and externally, to identify unique solutions for growth and help ensure that external product teams have top-tier support. 


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What you’ll need- Preferred Qualifications**

2 years of experience working in DeFi, or on a web3 application

Experience working on a PM team, and background in effective 
communication to high-priority counterparties

Extensive relationships in DeFi 

Ability to quickly analyze new product for value add to the Polygon ecosystem



**Key Job Responsibilities**

Responsibilities for the PM role include: Collaborating with the DeFi team to identify promising, DeFi-native expansion for protocols within the Polygon ecosystem, like the recent Maker DAO Spark / sDAI proposal

Work with the Project Management team to identify and instantiate promising and problematic areas for development within the Polygon stack. 

Interfacing with the Solution Provider team and external protocols to ensure that any engineering issues are quickly and communicatively aggregated & addressed. 

Product Growth

Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs develops Ethereum scaling solutions for Polygon protocols. Polygon Labs engages with other ecosystem developers to help make available scalable, affordable, secure and sustainable blockchain infrastructure for Web3. Polygon Labs has initially developed a growing suite of protocols for developers to gain easy access to major scaling solutions, including layer 2s (zero-knowledge rollups and optimistic rollups), sidechains, hybrid chains, app-specific chains, enterprise chains, and data availability protocols. Scaling solutions that Polygon Labs initially developed have seen widespread adoption with tens of thousands of decentralized apps, unique addresses exceeding 207M, over TK million smart contracts and TK total transactions processed since inception. The network is home for some of the biggest Web3 projects and well-known enterprises. Polygon Labs is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 in becoming carbon negative.

Polygon Labs

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