APAC Lead

Ethereum Institutional is a nonprofit focused on accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum. We engage with leading financial institutions, market infrastructure providers, and industry participants to advance understanding and real-world use of Ethereum-based systems.

We are seeking an APAC Lead to help grow our institutional presence across Asia-Pacific. This role is focused on building relationships within traditional finance, driving high-quality market engagement, and helping position Ethereum as foundational infrastructure for the next generation of financial services in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and grow relationships across APAC-based financial institutions, including banks, asset managers, family offices, exchanges, custodians, and fintech firms.
• Support our presence in the region through conferences, private roundtables, workshops, and briefings for institutional audiences.
• Help identify and develop partnerships that expand Ethereum’s institutional footprint across key APAC markets.
• Gather market feedback and institutional demand, and translate it into insights that inform our broader strategy.
• Support the creation of content, briefings, and thought leadership tailored to institutional stakeholders in Asia-Pacific.
• Connect institutions with relevant Ethereum ecosystem participants, including infrastructure providers, researchers, and application-layer teams.
• Contribute to fundraising, sponsorship, and partner development across the region.

Candidate Profile

• 5–7 years of experience in traditional finance, such as banking, asset management, capital markets, payments, or financial infrastructure.
• Professional fluency in Mandarin or another major regional language, in addition to English, is required.
• Meaningful exposure to digital assets, blockchain, or Web3, ideally through institutional product, partnership, or market-development work.
• A developing network across APAC institutional finance, ideally with contacts in Hong Kong and/or Japan.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to represent Ethereum Institutional in both private meetings and public industry forums.
• Experience supporting workshops, roundtables, and relationship-driven engagements.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and comfort operating independently across a geographically diverse region.