Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainlink Labs is the industry-standard oracle platform powering decentralized finance (DeFi). The Product Manager for Node Economics will own the incentive systems and compensation frameworks that influence Node Operators' performance, ensuring they understand their compensation and are incentivized to improve network reliability.
Responsibilities
- Build the compensation and incentive systems that directly influence how Node Operators perform across a network securing the majority of DeFi and powering every Chainlink product
- Ship performance-based mechanisms that create measurable accountability and drive improvements in operator quality at scale
- Design and automate payment workflows that Node Operators can trust completely, eliminating manual steps and ensuring accuracy
- Deliver performance insights and tooling that give operators clear, actionable visibility into how they are performing and what they are earning
- Own the economic communications that help Node Operators understand complex changes and participate in new programs without disruption
- Shape how operators are allocated and evaluated across all Chainlink products, building the systems that make those processes consistent and fair
Skills
- Experience owning performance, rewards, or compensation systems end-to-end and delivering measurable improvements in outcomes
- Comfortable working closely with data scientists, economists, or quantitative teams to translate models into product or operational decisions
- Able to communicate complex economic or quantitative concepts clearly to external stakeholders through written materials and direct engagement
- Experience designing or improving payment and compensation workflows, including reducing manual processes and improving accuracy
- Track record of driving cross-functional work across engineering, data, and operations teams without direct authority
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and building structured processes in environments where frameworks are still being established
- Demonstrated understanding of incentive design and token economics, with experience applying these concepts to real-world systems
- Experience with crypto economics, staking mechanisms, or token-based incentive systems in production environments
- Background working with external partners, operators, or ecosystem participants in a product or program capacity
- Exposure to data science or quantitative research environments, with involvement in shipping data-informed products or systems
- Understanding of oracle networks, validator economics, or decentralized infrastructure systems
- Direct experience with staking protocols or node operator programs
- Academic or professional background in mechanism design, game theory, or quantitative finance
- Experience working at a protocol, L1/L2, or infrastructure company where token economics were central to the product
Company Overview
Chainlink Labs provides open-source blockchain oracle solutions and specializes in the development and integration of chainlink. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://chainlinklabs.com/.