Data Partnerships Manager

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Chainlink Labs is one of the primary contributing developers of Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform bridging capital markets on‑chain and powering decentralized finance. The Chainlink stack provides essential data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy standards needed for institutional tokenized assets, DeFi, payments, stable coins, and more. Many of the world’s largest financial services institutions—including Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, and Aave—use Chainlink’s standards and infrastructure.

The Product Team at Chainlink Labs is dedicated to delivering cutting‑edge solutions for DeFi, on‑chain finance, gaming, NFTs, and other major verticals. Our experienced product managers, designers, and engineers collaborate to create innovative products and services that enable smart contracts to securely access off‑chain data and systems.

• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the top Data Providers in our current portfolio.
• Collaborate with sales, product, legal, and procurement to onboard and manage the lifecycle of our data partnerships.
• Negotiate new commercial partnership deals and renewals with our existing partners.
• Work with our data partners to improve performance and innovate new data solutions for our customers.
• Partner with product and sales teams to define data needs, identify new target data partners, negotiate partnership commercials and terms, and own the data partner relationship over its life cycle.

• 3‑7+ years of experience structuring data deals, and growing and optimizing partnership portfolios.
• Experience with traditional or crypto financial data and data services as a customer or provider.
• Experience developing data products internally or through partnerships.
• Strong project management skills to ensure successful data provider onboarding and lifecycle management.
• Ability to analyze time‑series data and legal agreements.

• Experience with DeFi and Blockchain.
• Market data purchasing, selling or partnership experience with a major market data vendor, major exchange/transaction venue, or global bank.
• Ability to deliver detailed product requirements or code prototypes.

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote‑based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

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