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title: 'Head of Partnerships at Stargate Foundation'
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# Head of Partnerships at Stargate Foundation

- **Company:** Stargate Foundation
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2025-02-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stargate-foundation/88ab7c8e-f486-4004-bd33-de8237ab3d3c

## Job description

Stargate is the leading liquidity infrastructure protocol in crypto, powering over $65 billion in cross-chain volume to date. Built on LayerZero, Stargate enables guaranteed instant settlement of assets on more than 80 blockchains. As the global liquidity layer, Stargate connects users, applications, ecosystems and assets into a unified network, removing friction from value transfer and making omnichain liquidity accessible.

## About the Role

The Head of Partnerships will play a pivotal role in establishing and managing high-value relationships with key industry stakeholders, including financial institutions. This individual will be responsible for identifying, negotiating, and executing partnerships that align with the company’s strategic objectives, as well as growing and maintaining the company’s partner ecosystem. Additionally, the Head of Partnerships will be responsible for drafting and submitting high-quality partnership proposals, ensuring they are persuasive, tailored to client needs, and aligned with business goals.

## What You’ll Do

- Proposal Writing: Draft compelling, well-researched proposals for potential partners, ensuring they are aligned with business strategies and client needs.
- Drive Product Adoption: Lead efforts to drive adoption of Stargate’s products with fintech platforms and top crypto protocols.
- Partnership Development: Build and maintain strategic partnerships with crypto protocols, fintech platforms, exchanges, and DeFi projects to expand Stargate’s network and influence.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with internal teams (engineering, product, marketing) and external partners to identify, scope, and deliver integration opportunities that enhance the value of Stargate’s products and services.
- Strategic Integration Leadership: Guide integration projects from ideation to execution, ensuring smooth collaboration between technical teams and partners.

## About You

- You have a passion for bridging the tradFi/crypto gap
- You enjoy and have led partnerships and integrations with banks/fintech applications/exchanges and/or crypto protocols
- You are excited about DeFi and the wider crypto sector
- You have a strong sense of professionalism and know how to represent yourself and the company
- You are highly motivated by success and dedicated to driving projects to completion

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience in partnership development, business development, or a similar role in fintech, crypto, or DeFi.
- Proven track record of successfully driving partnerships, integrations, and adoption with financial institutions or crypto protocols.
- Strong understanding of decentralized finance, blockchain technology, and the broader crypto ecosystem.
- Ability to manage technical and non-technical stakeholders, with experience leading integration projects across teams.
- Strong negotiation, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.

## About Stargate Foundation

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Stargate Foundation develops and maintains Stargate, a composable cross-chain liquidity transport protocol that enables instant, secure asset transfers across 45+ blockchains.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Foundation; parent company LayerZero Labs Ltd.)
- **Headquarters**: Lusaka, Zambia
- **Founded**: 2022 (protocol launch)
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (core team emerged from LayerZero Labs)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Blockchain infrastructure / DeFi (Decentralized Finance)
- Target customers: B2B (protocols, dApps, institutions) and B2C (end-users transferring assets cross-chain)
- Mission: To become the standard unified liquidity layer for the omnichain economy – “how money moves onchain.”

## Products & Services
- **Stargate Protocol**: A composable cross-chain liquidity transport protocol that offers guaranteed instant finality for asset transfers between blockchains. Supports native, OFT, and (coming soon) Hydra assets. Integrated with 45+ networks.
- **Stargate API**: Provides developers with a programmatic interface to integrate cross-chain transfers directly into their applications, enabling seamless omnichain liquidity access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over **$50 billion** in lifetime transfer volume (as of mid-2025)
- **Notable Partners / Users**: Circle, Tether, Ethena – major stablecoin issuers and protocols leverage Stargate’s liquidity layer.
- **Growth Signals**: Expansion to 45+ blockchains; introduction of Hydra asset support; sustained volume growth despite market conditions; active development of governance and enterprise solutions.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unified Liquidity**: Unlike fragmented bridges, Stargate pools liquidity across chains into a single hub, improving capital efficiency.
- **Instant Finality**: Guaranteed finality on the destination chain eliminates settlement risk.
- **LayerZero Backbone**: Built on LayerZero’s omnichain messaging infrastructure, giving it deep composability and security from one of the most battle-tested interoperability protocols.
- **Ecosystem Adoption**: Already integrated by leading protocols and stablecoin issuers, creating strong network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the supported network set** to cover all major L1s and L2s.
- **Launching Hydra assets** to enable more flexible cross-chain token standards.
- **Enhancing developer tooling** (API, docs) to attract more builders.
- **Advancing decentralized governance** to transition control to the community (Stargate Foundation oversees this process).

## Why Work Here
- **Impact-focused mission**: Work on core infrastructure that powers the multi-chain future of finance.
- **Small, lean team** (reported ~2 core employees, plus broader foundation contributors) – high ownership and direct influence on protocol design.
- **Remote-friendly**: Team distributed across Zambia, Poland, Canada, and other locations.
- **Engineering culture**: Smart contract development (Solidity, LayerZero), cross-chain architecture, and open-source ethos.
- **Recent open roles** (via Ashby): Smart Contract Engineer, Head of Partnerships – indicating growth and institutional focus.

## Sources
1. [stargate.finance/about](https://stargate.finance/about)
2. [LinkedIn – Stargate Finance](https://www.linkedin.com/company/stargate-finance)
3. [Stargate Documentation](https://docs.stargate.finance/introduction/overview)
4. [Smart Contract Engineer listing](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stargate-foundation/86a0163c-adb0-408c-b363-5cecd711e051)
5. [Head of Partnerships listing](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stargate-foundation/88ab7c8e-f486-4004-bd33-de8237ab3d3c)

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