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Overview
Join Aave Labs as a Strategy & Business Development Associate to drive strategic initiatives in decentralized finance, focusing on ecosystem growth and product expansion. Aave Labs began with the goal of making financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally. We built the Aave Protocol, the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech. Today, we focus on building trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally. Our culture emphasizes building trusted products, holding a high bar for quality and craftsmanship, operating as a global team, moving quickly with long-term vision, and maintaining lean, impact-focused teams.
Key Responsibilities
- •Supporting the development and execution of strategic growth initiatives across Aave Labs’ ecosystem and products.
- •Working closely with leadership to identify and evaluate new market opportunities and expansion strategies.
- •Coordinating cross-functional initiatives across product, engineering, legal, marketing, and ecosystem teams to drive execution and alignment.
- •Assisting in developing and managing strategic partnerships across DeFi, fintech, infrastructure, and institutional ecosystems.
- •Conducting market research, competitive analysis, and ecosystem mapping to support business and strategic decision-making.
- •Helping prepare strategic materials including partnership proposals, market overviews, presentations, and ecosystem analyses.
- •Supporting business development efforts including outreach coordination, pipeline management, partner tracking, and stakeholder communication.
- •Monitoring trends across DeFi, stablecoins, tokenization, institutional adoption, and digital asset infrastructure to identify emerging opportunities.
- •Contributing to internal strategic planning and operational initiatives as Aave Labs continues to scale globally.
Qualifications
- •3–5 years of experience in strategy, business development or partnerships, and digital assets.
- •Strong understanding of crypto, DeFi, and the evolving digital asset ecosystem.
- •Intellectual curiosity and a genuine passion for decentralized finance and emerging financial infrastructure.
- •Exceptional communication, organizational, and project management skills.
- •Ability to operate autonomously and manage multiple workstreams in fast-moving environments.
- •Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities with high attention to detail.
- •Comfortable working cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- •High-agency mindset with a willingness to take ownership and drive initiatives forward.
- •Strong team player who thrives in collaborative and globally distributed environments.