Head of Trading & Market Structure
Posted Updated
You will develop and operate trading activities supporting asset management, vault, and risk businesses. You will run market-neutral and delta-neutral strategies, manage execution and collateral, establish risk controls, monitor vault performance, and work with engineering and operational partners on trading infrastructure and processes.
Responsibilities
- Own the basis book, including trade selection, sizing, guardrails, and delta management
- Choose hedges and manage rolls, term structure, funding-rate regimes, and attribution
- Execute trades across centralized and decentralized venues
- Optimize collateral and financing across USD, stablecoins, and liquid RWAs
- Define strategy parameters and risk inputs for delta-neutral vaults
- Specify vault logic, allocation rules, rebalancing, fees, and risk limits with engineering
- Monitor vault utilization, yield, model deviations, and hedging interactions
- Establish delta, margin, liquidation, kill-switch, circuit-breaker, and alerting controls
- Produce PnL attribution, stress tests, capacity analysis, and vault performance reporting
- Coordinate with engineering, risk, operations, legal, custody, prime, and vault partners
- Maintain runbooks and audit-ready processes
- Refine execution models, collateral routing, sizing, and vault design
Requirements
- Have 3–5+ years of experience running cash-and-carry, basis, or funding-capture strategies in crypto or related TradFi relative-value markets
- Demonstrate PnL attribution for a delta-neutral book and a clear risk framework
- Understand crypto market microstructure, perpetual funding, futures rolls, liquidity, margin models, ADL, clawbacks, and exchange operations
- Use Python for analysis and automation
- Be comfortable with exchange APIs, websockets, FIX, dashboards, and 24/7 monitoring alerts
- Have experience with reconciliations, NAV and PnL checks, custody and wallet operations, counterparty underwriting, incident management, and documentation
- Demonstrate communication and leadership across risk, engineering, and operations
- Understand capital routing between centralized venues and onchain vaults
Benefits
- Equity
- Token compensation
- Carry compensation
- Opportunities to travel to team events and conferences