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title: 'Partnerships, Capital Markets at Tempo'
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# Partnerships, Capital Markets at Tempo

- **Company:** Tempo
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tempo-xyz/9de0449a-b2c3-417a-adbc-e1f0ee4345bc

## Job description

Tempo is a layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe’s experience in global payments and Paradigm’s expertise in crypto tech.

Tempo’s payment-first design provides a scalable, low-cost predictable backbone that meets the needs of high-volume payment use cases. Our goal is to move money reliably, cheaply, and at scale. Our north star is simplicity for users: fintechs, traditional banks, merchants, platforms, and anyone else looking to move their payments into the 21st century.

We're building Tempo with design partners who are global leaders in AI, e-commerce, and financial services: Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.

We’re a team of crypto-optimists, building the infrastructure needed to bring real, substantial economic flows onchain. We like to move fast and swing for the fences — join us!

## The Role

We’re hiring for someone to build Tempo’s real-world asset and stablecoin capital markets strategy. In this role, you will source attractive yield opportunities and bring them onchain, structure new financial products with appropriate risk protection and liquidity, and develop durable institutional onchain borrow demand.

## Responsibilities

- Define and drive Tempo’s commercial partnership strategy across onchain capital markets and real-world assets.
- Build and own relationships with asset originators, asset managers, banks, lenders, insurers, broker-dealers, institutional borrowers, and other capital markets participants.
- Source and evaluate traditional financial assets and yield opportunities that can be brought onchain.
- Structure financial products and partnerships that incorporate insurance, guarantees, credit enhancement, reserves, or other risk-transfer mechanisms where appropriate.
- Develop liquidity strategies across issuance, redemption, duration and cash-flow matching, secondary liquidity, and periods of market stress.
- Build relationships with institutional borrowers and source durable institutional onchain borrow demand
- Serve as a consultative, technical design partner to discover and guide product integration with customers.
- Act as the voice of partners internally, shaping GTM priorities and feedback loops.
- Help develop scalable playbooks for onboarding, product launches, and partner success.
- Represent Tempo externally at conferences, industry forums, and ecosystem events.

## Qualifications

- Deep experience in capital markets, structured credit, private credit, fixed income, securitization, insurance, or an adjacent financial product role at an investment bank, asset manager, insurer, lender, or other financial institution.
- Proven track record of structuring and launching new financial products, from opportunity identification and risk analysis through distribution and execution.
- Strong understanding of financial risk protection, including insurance, guarantees, credit enhancement, collateral, reserves, and other risk-transfer structures.
- Strong command of liquidity considerations, including asset-liability matching, redemption design, duration, secondary-market liquidity, and stress scenarios.
- Experience sourcing capital or borrow demand and building relationships with institutional borrowers, lenders, and allocators.
- Experience bringing traditional financial assets or credit products onchain, or deep experience across blockchain and adjacent fintech infrastructure.
- Proven track record of sourcing and scaling partnerships with enterprises and high-growth startups.
- Comfortable navigating complex organizations and aligning stakeholders across technical and business teams.
- Excellent judgment in sourcing, evaluating, and prioritizing high-impact opportunities.
- Comfort working closely with legal, compliance, risk, finance, product, and engineering teams.
- Experience with B2B or developer-adjacent products, such as APIs, dashboards, or partner platforms.

Attributes

- High-energy, proactive, and execution-driven.
- Proficient at understanding and communicating technical concepts.
- Sharp communicator who can tell Tempo’s story clearly and persuasively.
- Strong organizational and relationship management skills.
- Commercially creative and analytically rigorous, with the ability to balance yield, risk, liquidity, and distribution.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to learn from partners and the ecosystem.
- Scrappy and hands-on; willing to dive deep to make partners successful.

## About Tempo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tempo is a purpose-built, Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoin payments, designed for high-throughput, low-cost global transactions in partnership with leading fintechs and Fortune 500s.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (incubated by Stripe and Paradigm)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Blockchain Infrastructure, Payments, Financial Services
- **Target customers**: B2B — fintechs, banks, commerce platforms, Fortune 500s, and enterprises needing high-volume stablecoin payment rails
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build a purpose-built, Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoin payments at scale, enabling high-throughput, low-cost global transactions.

## Products & Services
- **Tempo Blockchain**: A purpose-built, Layer 1 blockchain for stablecoin payments. Key features include deterministic settlement (~0.6 second finality with no re-orgs), dedicated payment lanes for guaranteed blockspace, opt-in privacy for regulated issuers, a native stablecoin DEX, payments metadata for ERP reconciliation, and stablecoin-native gas fees. It is EVM-compatible and built on Reth, targeting 100K+ TPS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — $500M (Series A, November 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Incubated by **Stripe** and **Paradigm**. Series A led by **Greenoaks** and **Thrive Capital**. Design partners include Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa, and more.
- **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, the company has already raised a massive $500M Series A, employs 79 people, and is growing headcount at +15.8% monthly. It has a high-profile list of design partners and is backed by two of the most influential names in fintech and crypto.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Incubated by Stripe & Paradigm**: Built on deep expertise in global payments and crypto infrastructure, giving it unparalleled credibility and network access.
- **Payments-First Design**: Unlike general-purpose blockchains, Tempo is purpose-built for stablecoin payments, featuring dedicated payment lanes, predictable low fees, sub-second finality, and opt-in privacy — all designed for regulated financial institutions.
- **Massive Backing & Partnerships**: A $500M Series A and a design partner list including Anthropic, Deutsche Bank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, and Visa provide a powerful moat and immediate go-to-market channels.
- **Stablecoin-Agnostic**: A neutral platform supporting all major stablecoins, making it a universal settlement layer.

## Strategic Focus
- **Onboarding Design Partners**: Actively working with a group of initial design partners (Anthropic, Coupang, Deutsche Bank, DoorDash, Lead Bank, Mercury, Nubank, OpenAI, Revolut, Shopify, Standard Chartered, Visa) to build and refine the protocol for real-world use cases.
- **Decentralization Roadmap**: Building toward a permissionless validator set and a neutral, decentralized platform.
- **Key Use Cases**: Global payouts/payins/payroll, embedded finance, remittances, tokenized deposits, microtransactions, and agentic payments.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Work on a foundational layer of the next-generation payments infrastructure, solving real-world problems for global finance.
- **Elite Backing & Team**: Backed by Stripe and Paradigm, with a design partner list that reads like a who’s who of fintech and tech. You’ll be working alongside top talent from these organizations.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Build on a novel, payments-first blockchain using Rust, Reth (EVM-compatible), and modern crypto infrastructure.
- **Culture & Perks**: Described as a remote or hybrid workplace with physical offices in San Francisco. The company is in a high-growth phase (79 employees, +15.8% monthly headcount growth) with a focus on engineering and product excellence.
- **Open Roles**: Currently hiring for Rust Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer (Blockchain), IT Systems Engineer, Technical Solutions Lead, Product Counsel, Communications Lead, and Enterprise GTM roles across multiple locations (SF, NYC, remote USA).

## Sources
1. [tempo.xyz](https://tempo.xyz/)
2. [tempo.xyz - Blog](https://tempo.xyz/blog/introducing-tempo/)
3. [LinkedIn - Tempo](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tempo)
4. [Built In - Tempo](https://builtin.com/company/tempo-tempoxyz)
5. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Tempo](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tempo-xyz)

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