Senior Manager, Market Data Quality & Benchmarks

We are searching for an experienced Senior Manager to lead the Market Data Quality & Benchmarks organization. You will own the production data quality, benchmarking standards, and cost/performance profile of Chainlink’s market-data products. You will be defining strategy, shipping microstructure-aware pricing methodologies, and scaling operational excellence across crypto, FX, and RWA markets on chain. This role blends financial engineering, quantitative research, real-time data-risk management, and hands-on leadership of engineering-heavy workflows. Define data-quality & benchmark strategy, set vision, KPIs, and roadmaps for price feeds and streams, including explicit data-quality SLOs (latency, coverage, staleness, accuracy). Champion benchmark & pricing research, guide quants in designing, stress-testing, and deploying benchmarks (e.g., VWAP/TWAP/mid, NBBO proxies, dislocation detectors) and pricing methodologies for multiple asset classes. Own real-time data risk, establish risk tolerances, oversee 24/7 monitoring infrastructure; drive playbooks for crossed/locked markets, stale ticks, and cross-venue reconciliation for the largest value-securing oracle network in blockchain. Optimize cost/performance, design efficient ingestion/normalization architectures and provider configurations, reduce compute/network/storage spend while expanding coverage, partner with Procurement/BD where needed. Scale high-performing teams, recruit, coach, and develop quants, data-quality engineers/managers, and Data Scientists; foster a culture of experimentation, accountability, and continuous improvement. Drive cross-functional alignment, partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Legal to launch new data products and embed data-contract rigor and risk-aware practices company-wide. Represent Chainlink externally, engage with leading exchanges, data vendors, and DeFi protocols to advance industry standards for on-chain market-data quality and benchmarking.