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Lead the ecosystem growth team supporting founders building on Stellar. Oversee builder discovery, selection, funding, launch, mentorship, accelerator, liquidity, and security-audit programs. Manage senior program and community managers, define strategy and metrics, evaluate portfolio performance, improve processes using data and automation, and coordinate with business development, developer relations, marketing, legal, and finance. Represent the organization at ecosystem events and help funded teams achieve user adoption, retention, follow-on funding, and sustainable growth.

Leads Stellar’s Solutions Engineering function, managing Solutions Architects and Engineers while overseeing enterprise partner integrations from discovery through production support. The role combines people leadership, systems architecture, technical escalations, partner engagement, program design, quality standards, hiring, training, and certification. It also partners with Product and Engineering to address ecosystem needs, improve tooling, and scale repeatable engagement models for blockchain integrations.

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain ledger and consensus. Develop scalable, resilient components; improve peer-to-peer networking and processing performance; investigate bottlenecks; and contribute to architecture, code reviews, RFCs, formal verification, simulations, and open-source collaboration. The role requires production C++ or Rust expertise, strong software design skills, and ownership of core subsystems.

Manage partner software and product integrations with the Stellar Network, coordinating engineering and business stakeholders from launch through completion. Own partner roadmaps, dependencies, risks, milestones, documentation, and program performance. Lead technical and business meetings, establish scalable program-management processes, and ensure delivery against organizational goals. The role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, technical fluency, and experience working with external partners in financial services and blockchain environments.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team by establishing the vision, mentoring members, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating on infrastructure and tooling.

Lead and contribute to product design across Stellar’s products, set design vision, maintain and scale the design system, mentor a designer, partner with PMs and engineers, use AI-assisted workflows, and run user research and usability testing to ship pixel-perfect user-centered experiences.

Stand up and own the product operating system and cadences for the Product organization: roadmaps, planning cycles, execution tracking, and PM enablement. Improve visibility, build feedback loops, capture high-quality product artifacts, and identify opportunities to automate work using AI and agentic workflows. Partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale a high-performing product culture.

Lead business development to grow Stellar payments adoption and monthly active accounts. Build target lists, manage strategic enterprise and fintech relationships, close deals across payments, stablecoins, DeFi and RWA, and coordinate cross-functional execution to drive payment volume and wallet growth.

Design, build, and implement changes to Stellar Core while working on performance improvements, decentralization, and incentive mechanics. Collaborate on architectures and contribute to code reviews under the Stellar Development Foundation.

Design and develop key components of Stellar Core while collaborating with team members. Engage in performance optimization and ensure the system's scalability and security.