Capital Markets Lead
9.0/10
Stellar Development Foundation
$160,000 – $240,000 USD
Remote
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1 day ago
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Description
In this role, you will
- •**Architect Capital Deployment Strategy:** Manage the strategic roadmap for capital deployment to drive ecosystem utility, focusing on the evaluation and integration of high-quality protocols and liquidity solutions that enhance network health and asset accessibility.
- •**Partnership Negotiation:** Drive end-to-end commercial negotiations with institutional co-parties, liquidity providers, market makers, and DeFi protocols.
- •**Ecosystem Stewardship:** Serve as the functional point of contact within the DeFi landscape, cultivating high-level relationships to support the growth, security, and maturity of the ecosystem.
- •**Strategic Execution:** Facilitate the execution of cryptocurrency sales and treasury management programs, ensuring they align with broader corporate objectives and market conditions.
- •**Program Economics:** Develop and maintain internal options and volatility programs; define the quantitative parameters for execution to optimize program economics.
- •**Performance Oversight:** Monitor the efficacy of sales and liquidity programs against benchmarks, adjusting execution playbooks to reflect real-time market shifts.
- •**Due Diligence Leadership:** Conduct deep research into emerging DeFi protocols and assets prior to deployment. Evaluate tokenomics, governance models, technical viability, and strategic fit.
- •**Economic Modeling:** Gain a comprehensive understanding of the yield dynamics or net carry costs of a strategy, alongside the associated risks. Translate these complex technical outputs into clear, actionable assessments for leadership.
- •**Engineering Liaison:** Partner with Deployment Agencies to conduct security diligence on smart contracts, ensuring proposed integrations meet internal and external security standards.
- •**Framework Development:** Operationalize the company’s risk appetite frameworks. Define and help implement continuous monitoring controls for smart contract risk, concentration risk, collateralization, and credit risk.
- •**Proactive Mitigation:** Identify emerging systemic risks within the portfolio; design and implement hedging or diversification strategies to protect assets.
- •**Governance & Controls:** Ensure that risk limits are not only monitored but actively enforced through automated alerting and reporting.
- •**Liquidity Strategy:** Monitor market depth, volatility, and liquidity dynamics across key currency pairs. Propose and execute strategies to optimize liquidity.
- •**Volatility Management:** Analyze and manage positions related to volatility. Leverage data-driven insights to propose adjustments to lending and borrowing strategies.
- •**Operational Excellence:** Continuously improve the operations of our digital asset positions, including the architecture of wallet configurations, position documentation, and fund flow routing.
- •**Accounting Collaboration:** Act as the primary bridge between Digital Capital Markets and Finance/Accounting. Ensure all complex DeFi activity (lending, AMMs, CDPs) is accurately tracked, audited, and reconciled.
- •**Executive Reporting:** Generate high-level performance and risk reports for leadership, translating complex blockchain data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
- •**Documentation:** Oversee the internal documentation for risk management practices, ensuring audit-ready logs for all trading activities and counterparty engagements.
We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $160,000-$240,000, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer lumen-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits
- •Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents.
- •Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break.
- •Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents.
- •Gym reimbursement ($80 per month).
- •Life & ADD (up to $50K).
- •Short & Long term disability.
- •401K with 4% match.
- •Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts.
- •Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution.
- •Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution.
- •Family building benefits through Kindbody.
- •Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace).
- •L&D budget of $1,500/year.
- •Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
- •Company retreats.
Requirements
You have
- •**Education:** Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
- •**Experience:** 6–10+ years of professional experience in finance, investment banking, or capital markets; 3+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience within the blockchain/DeFi space.
- •**Technical Proficiency:** Advanced knowledge of on-chain data, DeFi protocols (AMM/Lending/CDPs), and market-making dynamics. Proficiency in using blockchain explorers, on-chain analytics tools (e.g., Dune), and trading platforms.
- •**Strategic Leadership:** Proven track record of presenting complex investment and risk strategies to executive-level stakeholders.
- •**Operational Rigor:** Strong experience navigating the intersection of traditional accounting requirements and decentralized finance workflows.
- •**Analytical Depth:** Expert-level quantitative skills. Ability to build, maintain, and interpret complex financial models in the context of high-volatility digital assets.
- •**Intellectual Curiosity:** Passion for decentralized finance and a proactive approach to staying updated with industry trends.
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