Stronghold's mission is to provide fast, secure, and accessible financial services for all. Through our developer APIs, we enable pay-by-bank embedded payments and financial services while pushing the boundaries of financial innovation. Our SHx token is a key component of our ecosystem, supporting merchant rewards, DeFi-based financing, and governance. We're a fast-moving, data-driven team committed to compliance, scalability, and innovation. We value curiosity, autonomy, and creative problem solving and we're looking for someone excited to bring a marketing edge. The role You'll build toward owning the SHx Markets vertical: expanding SHx market infrastructure and liquidity to strengthen the utility and health of the SHx ecosystem. That means managing and growing relationships across crypto-native and traditional institutional participants (market makers, brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, custodians, and prime brokers) and working closely with the SHx Markets team on strategy and execution. You'll bring a deep understanding of market structure, clearing, settlement, prime brokerage, and custody, and apply it to a market that's still being built. How ownership works here: you take on our external market maker relationships from the start. The rest of the markets portfolio (exchange relationships, institutional partnerships) transfers to you as you deliver, not by title on day one. We're explicit about this because it's how we work: results earn scope. This is an entrepreneurial seat on a distributed team, not a chair at an established desk. We're looking for someone who is both strategic and execution-oriented, with the network and reputation to open doors and the judgement to know which ones matter.
In the first 6 to 12 months, you are the person who:
The technical side of the market (data, reconciliation, on-chain infrastructure) stays with our technical team. You own the business of the market.
Four conversations: our recruiter, then each founder one on one (our CTO on market structure and liquidity, our CEO on strategy and how you'd build the vertical), then a final round with both.
San Francisco (hybrid; in office Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday). US work authorization required; no visa sponsorship. Reports to the CEO. Full-time, senior leadership.
Health benefits, a seat shaping crypto market infrastructure from the ground up, and a team that values speed, curiosity, and autonomy. As an equal opportunity employer, Stronghold does not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Authorized to work in the United States (required) No visa sponsorship available at this time
