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COMPANYMorpho

The mission of this role is to establish Morpho as the credit network of choice for the world's institutions by owning, signing, and growing our largest institutional relationships and building an institutional GTM motion from scratch.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and execute Morpho's institutional growth strategy, identifying and prioritizing the highest-impact institutional opportunities to accelerate adoption and trust on the network.
  • Build and own a pipeline of prospective institutional partners and customers, driving complex commercial discussions from first engagement through launch.
  • Become a trusted advisor to institutions (executives, investment teams, product leaders, and digital-asset teams), educating them on DeFi, on-chain lending, and Morpho's infrastructure, and guiding them through technical, operational, risk, and regulatory considerations.
  • Personally sign and grow Morpho's largest institutional relationships, carrying and closing the most strategic deals yourself rather than delegating them.
  • Bring institutional market intelligence back into the org, partnering with Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and define institutional offerings and onboarding.
  • Represent Morpho at industry events and executive meetings, developing strategic partnerships across the institutional digital-asset ecosystem and collaborating with marketing on thought leadership.

Must-have Experience & Skills:

  • 5+ years in business development, with a proven track record sourcing and closing complex, high-value commercial relationships (in TradFi, fintech, or crypto).
  • At least 2 years inside a large traditional financial institution (capital markets, asset management, banking, or similar).
  • Crypto native: an active, hands-on user of on-chain protocols, not just an observer of the space.
  • Technical and product-minded, with deep financial-markets and regulatory knowledge and the corporate fluency to operate credibly inside large institutions.
  • Strong understanding of how institutions evaluate new infrastructure providers.