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title: 'DeFi Strategist at Daylight'
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# DeFi Strategist at Daylight

- **Company:** Daylight
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2025-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/daylight/jobs/4815076008

## Job description

## About Daylight

Daylight is the decentralized energy company. We're building a protocol that converts distributed solar and storage systems into yield-bearing infrastructure. These assets are deployed behind the meter in American homes and businesses, generating electricity revenues that flow onchain as a single, liquid yield token. Our ambition is to build the economic engine for energy abundance, where capital fuels power, and power fuels everything.

Our team brings together energy and crypto veterans who believe in a future where communities power themselves. Backed by a16z, Framework, and other industry-leading investors, we're building the infrastructure to make that vision a reality. Learn more at [www.godaylight.com](http://www.godaylight.com)

## The Role

We’re hiring a DeFi Strategist to lead DayFi’s business development and play a foundational role in the evolution of our energy-based yield products. You will be responsible for growing our strategic integrations across DeFi, deepening relationships with protocols and stablecoin issuers, and shaping product design and go-to-market strategy to ensure DayFi becomes a core building block in the emerging RWA DeFi stack.

You’ll work closely with the protocol and capital formation teams, helping to align liquidity incentives, refine composability features, and grow network effects across both sides of the market.

This role is in-person in our New York City office.

## Responsibilities

- Own and scale DayFi’s DeFi-native business development function, driving integrations with Layer 1s and Layer 2s, stablecoins, lending markets, interest rate derivatives, structured products, and bridges
- Shape and refine the design of DayFi’s yield products to improve liquidity, increase retention, and scale TVL
- Provide strategic input into the roadmap of core DeFi integrations to increase composability, utility, and adoption
- Work closely with partners to structure joint incentive programs, coordinate co-marketing, and accelerate TVL growth
- Work with the engineering and product teams at Daylight to provide seamless DeFi UX for mints, redemptions, and other engagements
- Work with the marketing team at Daylight to communicate the value proposition of our novel yield products to DeFi market participants

## What we’re looking for

| Must Haves

- Deep familiarity with the DeFi ecosystem, including RWAs, stablecoins, money markets (e.g., Aave, Morpho), and structured yield platforms (e.g., Pendle), and strong opinions on why certain products have worked and others have not
- Demonstrated understanding of advanced DeFi strategies such as looping and fixed-rate interest products
- A strong rolodex of protocol teams and DeFi power users, specifically in the stablecoin, RWA, lending, infrastructure, and market making spaces
- Prior experience in business development or product strategy at a RWA protocol, lending protocol, stablecoin issuer, Layer 1, or Layer 2
- Comfortable thinking in smart contract logic and understanding the implications of EVM-level design decisions on go-to-market and integrations
- Strong strategic thinking and communication skills—you can move between technical discussions and ecosystem storytelling with ease

| Nice to Haves

- Prior exposure to RWA tokenization or experience structuring compliant DeFi products
- Experience working with or across power markets

## What we offer

- Competitive salary and equity package
- Opportunity to shape a category-defining product from the ground up
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Wellhub membership
- Monthly wellness stipend

Daylight values diversity and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We're building technology that serves everyone, and we believe diverse perspectives make our team and our product stronger.

## About Daylight

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Daylight provides a personalized "onchain for you" API that powers recommendation feeds in major crypto wallets, telling users what mints, claims, quests, and other transactions they can perform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $9M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (169 Madison Avenue, Suite 2726)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Kyle McCollom (CEO) and Morley Zhi (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Web3 / Crypto Infrastructure; Internet Publishing
- **Target customers**: B2B — crypto wallets (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion, OKX Web3 Wallet, etc.), creator tools (PartyDAO, Highlight, Zora), and other "address-aware" applications.
- **Mission statement**: To drive 5% of all onchain GDP by powering the front doors of the onchain world with personalized discovery.

## Products & Services
- **Daylight API**: A REST API that serves tens of thousands of requests per second, summarizing millions of rows of offchain data and terabytes of onchain data in under 750ms. It provides personalized transaction recommendations (mints, claims, quests, dapps, swaps) to wallet apps, driving 5% of their transacting users. It functions as a "home tab" or "explore tab" for wallets, akin to Netflix or Spotify recommendations but for onchain actions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $9M (as of September 2024)
- **Annual Revenue**: $750,000 (estimated private data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Union Square Ventures (USV, lead in latest round), 1kx (co-lead), Framework Ventures, Chapter One, Eniac, 6th Man Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, OpenSea, Spice Capital, Uncommon Projects, and angels including evgeny.eth (Zerion co-founder), vadim.eth (Zerion co-founder), corbin.eth (early Consensys), idobn.eth (Blockaid co-founder), razniv.eth (Blockaid co-founder), nir.eth (Yup co-founder), and Shreyas Hariharan (Llama co-founder).
- **Growth Signals**: Reaches over 6 million active addresses monthly; powers the home/discover tabs of major wallets (Coinbase Wallet, MetaMask, Zerion, OKX Web3 Wallet); recently raised a $6M seed round led by USV (Sep 2024); hiring staff-level backend engineers to scale from 6M to tens of millions of monthly addresses.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Network effects**: As the most widely integrated recommendation engine for crypto wallets, every new wallet partner increases Daylight's user reach and data, improving recommendation quality.
- **First-mover in "ability feeds"**: Building the infrastructure layer for personalized onchain discovery, a category that is new and sticky.
- **Open, composable value chain**: Crypto's permissionless referral flows allow Daylight to earn protocol rewards (e.g., from Zora mints) and share them with distribution partners without needing contractual agreements, creating a more efficient value chain than web2 equivalents.
- **Deep wallet integrations**: Already embedded in the majority of wallet apps, creating a high switching cost for partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale infrastructure**: Expand from 6M monthly addresses to tens of millions by hiring staff-level backend engineers.
- **Expand recommendation categories**: Move beyond mints, quests, and claims into new transaction types (e.g., swaps, voting, token-gated experiences).
- **Leverage offchain data**: Use offchain data to improve the recommendation algorithm and personalization.
- **Expand to more surfaces**: Power discovery in any "address-aware" application beyond wallets.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Team believes in prioritizing problems that most impact the goal, minimizing distractions, writing good tests, communicating openly and directly, and having everyone (especially engineers) think about product and API design from the customer's perspective.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: NYC and Remote — offers flexibility.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Small, highly focused team (3 employees currently); you'll work on "meat-and-potatoes" software engineering problems (scaling REST APIs, optimizing PostgreSQL, tracing code paths on AWS); directly impact the core product and mission; backed by top-tier VCs (USV, 1kx) and industry angels; the founders have deep crypto and web2 experience (Stellar, OkCupid).

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn - Daylight](https://www.linkedin.com/company/daylightxyz)
2. [CB Insights - Daylight](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/daylight-1)
3. [Kyle McCollom blog - Daylight Raises $6M](https://www.kylemccollom.com/p/daylight-raises-6m-from-usv-1kx)
4. [Hello We3 - Daylight Profile](https://companies.hello-we3.com/company/daylight)
5. [Union Square Ventures - Daylight](https://blog.usv.com/daylight)

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