Head of Capital Markets, SHx

You'll lead the SHx Markets vertical, building relationships across crypto and traditional institutional participants to expand liquidity and market infrastructure. You'll work closely with a team of financial professionals, guiding strategy for enterprise-grade infrastructure while partnering with internal stakeholders across product, engineering, business development, and leadership. You'll bring deep knowledge of market structure, clearing, settlement, prime brokerage, and custody to help the SHx ecosystem thrive, and you'll be based in the San Francisco office three days a week.

Responsibilities

• Manage relationships with market makers, brokers, exchanges, liquidators, and institutional market participants globally
• Work closely with the Markets Team to guide company strategy for enterprise-grade infrastructure and solutions
• Manage relationships with key traditional market participants such as OTC trading desks, brokers, quantitative market makers, custodians, institutional market participants and prime brokers
• Explore new and innovative ways to partner with existing market participants to accelerate SHx liquidity growth
• Help develop crypto and traditional market infrastructure for SHx
• Partner with internal stakeholders across product, engineering, business development, and leadership to construct market buildout strategy
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, business, and finance to ensure efficient and compliant strategy execution

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in markets, with a focus on FX or commodities
• 5+ years of management experience
• 5+ years of business development and/or experience building strategic partnerships
• Experienced negotiator who is excited by partnerships and deal-making
• Preference for being both strategic and execution-oriented
• A deep understanding of market structure and liquidity landscape
• Familiarity with the cryptocurrency liquidity ecosystem
• Ability to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• MBA or equivalent preferred
• Authorized to work in the United States (required)
• No visa sponsorship available at this time

Benefits

• Health benefits