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<h2><strong>About Halliday</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Halliday is a blockchain company and product lab working to create a unified, cross-chain payments ecosystem. Its flagship product, Halliday Payments, is a unified payments platform that makes it easy for users to onramp, swap, and take other onchain actions. Halliday’s products are built on the Workflow Protocol, which removes the need to code smart contracts by hand and enables breakthrough applications to ship in hours, not years.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Backed by a16z and #Hashed, Halliday has worked with prominent developers such as ApeChain, Story Protocol and DeFi Kingdoms to provide seamless experiences for both developers and users. The team includes alumni from Stanford, Harvard, Compound, Meta, Netflix, and more.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're looking for a Head of Payments to own Halliday's payments network end-to-end. This is a senior individual contributor role, reporting into Product, for someone who pairs rigorous analytical and technical judgment with the partnership instincts to negotiate and hold strong commercial terms.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Own and grow our fiat coverage.</strong> Own what we support today and what's next, including country-by-country support, chargeback policies, commercial terms, and unit economics. Build the analytical foundation we use to defend provider and launch decisions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Manage vendor relationships end-to-end.</strong> Own our relationships with network partners across verticals such as acquirers, stablecoin orchestrators, and KYC vendors. Run negotiations and renewals, manage SLAs, and evaluate new opportunities. You should know what good commercial terms look like and hold the line on them.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Translate vendor capabilities into product strategy.</strong> Turn what partners can do into coverage strategy, unit economics, and integration specs. Work closely with cross-functional partners to inform and close coverage gaps.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Drive launch sequencing and provider strategy.</strong> Identify the next corridors to invest in and make an analytical, technical and business case to pursue them.</p></li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>What we're looking for</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Analytical Depth: </strong>You've built or maintained models that drove real decisions — not been adjacent to them. Strong command of Excel and comfort owning unit-economics analysis.</p></li><li><p style="min-height: