Protocol Director

Who We Are:

Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure, delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world – and we’re building the products and services to make that future a reality.

What We Value:

We are a diverse team of free thinkers, and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individuals who thrive in a culture of builders and overachievers and embrace high performance, transparent feedback, and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.

• Seek Excellence.
• Be Selective To Be Effective.
• Be Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled.
• Disagree Transparently.
• Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
• Build Dream Teams.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the protocol teams
• Manage the leads of the validators, Solana, and Chainlink teams. Develop them as technical leaders and hold the bar for the engineers beneath them.
• Provide protocol-level technical guidance to the teams, not just escalation management but genuine depth that helps them work through hard problems faster.
• Set a consistent operating rhythm across the three teams: planning, reviews, incident response, and continuous improvement.
• Own headcount health, retention and performance within your scope. Raise issues early and don't let team problems compound.
• Own protocol strategy
• Develop and maintain a forward-looking view across the protocols the business participates in. Understand where each protocol is heading technically, what that means for our infrastructure and services and how it maps to business opportunity.
• Be the connective tissue between protocol evolution (upgrades, forks, new mechanisms) and the engineering teams that have to respond to it.
• Advise the Head of Blockchain Engineering and broader leadership on protocol-level risk, opportunity, and emerging areas worth pursuing.
• Identify where emerging protocol developments represent material opportunities or threats for the business. Examples would be new L1s, staking mechanisms, oracle integrations, cross-chain primitives etc.
• Operate the function
• Hold the operational picture across the three teams: who is on what, what is at risk, what is blocked, what is shipping.
• Make staffing and sequencing calls within your scope. Work with the Head of Blockchain Engineering and hiring to plan ahead.
• Run the cadences and rituals that keep the function coherent without adding bureaucratic overhead.
• Coordinate across DIS, client-facing teams, and engagement leads to ensure the protocol function is poi