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Capital Markets Lead

Strategic leader overseeing capital deployment, risk architecture, and market operations for a digital asset ecosystem, bridging DeFi mechanics with corporate governance and treasury management. Requires 6+ years finance experience with 3+ years in blockchain/DeFi.

About the job

DeFi Engagements

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.

Token Execution

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.

Asset and Protocol Research

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.

Portfolio Health & Risk Management

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.

Market Operations

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.

Reporting & Compliance

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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field. MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Proven track record of presenting complex investment and risk strategies to executive-level stakeholders.
  • Strong experience navigating the intersection of traditional accounting requirements and decentralized finance workflows.
  • Expert-level quantitative skills. Ability to build, maintain, and interpret complex financial models in the context of high-volatility digital assets.
  • Passion for decentralized finance and a proactive approach to staying updated with industry trends.

Skills

Defi Protocols, Amm, Lending Protocols, Cdps, Blockchain Explorers, Dune Analytics, On-Chain Analytics, Trading Platforms, Financial Modeling, Risk Management, Smart Contract Security, Treasury Management, Volatility Management, Liquidity Strategy

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