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title: 'Partnerships at Tempo'
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# Partnerships at Tempo

- **Company:** Tempo
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tempo-xyz/8bba7722-48ad-469d-a7c0-986784ffc017

## 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

You'll build Tempo's partnerships function from the ground up — designing and executing 1:many partnership motions across infra, ecosystem, and SI partners that drive enterprise adoption of Tempo. This is a foundational GTM hire with direct impact on how the largest companies in the world onboard into crypto.

## Responsibilities

- Build Tempo's partnerships strategy and playbook from zero — infra partners, ecosystem partners, system integrators, and beyond
- Identify, negotiate, and close large strategic partnerships that generate meaningful pipeline
- Design scalable 1:many partnership structures, not one-off deals
- Drive revenue through partner-sourced and partner-influenced deals
- Work directly with product and engineering to scope partnership integrations and co-build opportunities
- Represent Tempo externally at the highest levels — partner exec teams, industry events, ecosystem forums
- Stand up the operational infrastructure for partnerships: tracking, reporting, partner enablement
- Collaborate closely with Tempo's GTM team to align partnerships with direct sales and enterprise motions

## Qualifications

- 8+ years in partnerships, BD, or GTM roles with demonstrated quota or pipeline ownership
- Deep domain expertise in stablecoins, payments, or fintech infrastructure
- Proven track record building scaled partnership programs — not just inheriting them
- Experience structuring and closing complex, multi-stakeholder strategic deals
- Familiarity with crypto infrastructure, blockchain ecosystems, or enterprise crypto adoption
- Comfortable operating as a founding function owner with no existing playbook
- Based in or willing to be in New York

## 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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