Crypto Markets Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the needs of crypto trading firms, including information and latency requirements, as well as infrastructure-driven economic prospects.

• Establish and nurture relationships with traders, quantitative trading firms, market makers, and other stakeholders in the market.

• Lead customer discovery initiatives and transform feedback into actionable product insights.

• Champion trader workflows, incentives, constraints, and priorities within the organization.

• Conduct thorough market research, encompassing market sizing, competitive analysis, and pricing potential.

• Collaborate with the Data team to analyze blockchain and market data, quantifying the value of product hypotheses.

• Develop lightweight analyses and simulations to evaluate beneficiaries, value, and underlying conditions.

• Assess and prioritize opportunities based on market evidence.

• Aid in the creation of valuable and monetizable offerings.

• Monitor shifts in crypto market structure, MEV, execution infrastructure, trading strategies, and new market participants.

• Work closely with Product, Data, and Business Development teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Direct hands-on experience in crypto trading, quantitative trading, market making, or a closely related role within market structure.

• Solid understanding of how professional crypto trading firms generate revenue and assess infrastructure, data, and execution products.

• Established connections within the crypto trading ecosystem and the capability to engage in high-quality discussions with pertinent market participants.

• Proficiency in navigating between qualitative market discussions and quantitative analyses.

• Strong commercial acumen.

• Capability to articulate trader workflows and market dynamics clearly to product, engineering, business development, and research teams.

• Comfort in operating within an early-stage environment.

• Experience with MEV, block building, order flow, preconfirmations, low-latency infrastructure, or blockchain market structure is particularly advantageous.

• Experience in evaluating or procuring market data, execution infrastructure, or trading APIs is especially valuable.

• Proficiency in working directly with datasets using SQL, Python, notebooks, or similar analytical tools is especially advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• Equity.

• Flexibility.

• Flexible time off.

• Fully remote work.

• Work from anywhere you feel most productive.

• Meaningful overlap with ET or CET time zones (at least 5 hours per day).