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Posted May 26Capital Markets Lead
at Stellar3
San Francisco, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Asset and Protocol Research - Due Diligence Leadership: Conduct deep research into emerging DeFi protocols and assets prior to deployment.
- 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.
- Propose and execute strategies to optimize liquidity. - Volatility Management: Analyze and manage positions related to volatility.
- 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
- Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today.
- experience (including 3+ years in blockchain) who can bridge the gap between complex DeFi mechanics, capital execution, and corporate governance.
- 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.
- You have: - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred. -
- 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
Experience
- The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with 6+ years of financial
- Experience: 6–10+ years of professional
- experience in finance, investment banking, or capital markets; 3+ years of dedicated, hands-on
Benefits
- 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 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: USA Benefits/Perks: - 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
Additional details
- Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
- We are seeking a seasoned Capital Markets Lead to oversee the strategic deployment of capital, risk architecture, and market operations for our digital asset ecosystem.
- In this role, you will not only execute complex strategies but will also architect the policies, risk controls, and operational workflows that define how we engage with the broader market.
- You will serve as a primary liaison between our trading/DeFi activity and internal accounting, engineering, and executive leadership teams. In this role,
- you will: 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.
- 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.