Crypto Markets Lead

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

₿ Crypto

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Optimum

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

₿ Crypto

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

Crypto • API • SaaS

Optimum is the world's first high-performance memory infrastructure designed specifically for blockchain technology. By leveraging Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC), Optimum significantly enhances blockchain scalability, speed, and efficiency, addressing common challenges such as data fragmentation and high storage costs. The platform allows users to integrate decentralized memory into any blockchain through an API, promoting a more robust and scaled architecture for decentralized applications (dApps).

📋 Description

• Develop a deep understanding of crypto trading firms, information and latency needs, and infrastructure-driven economic opportunities • Build and maintain relationships with traders, quantitative trading firms, market makers, and other market participants • Lead and support customer discovery and turn feedback into actionable product insights • Advocate internally for trader workflows, incentives, constraints, and priorities • Conduct market research, including market sizing, competitive analysis, and pricing potential • Work with the Data team to analyze blockchain and market data and quantify product hypothesis value • Build lightweight analyses and simulations to assess beneficiaries, value, and conditions • Evaluate and prioritize opportunities based on market evidence • Support development of valuable and monetizable offerings • Track changes in crypto market structure, MEV, execution infrastructure, trading strategies, and emerging market participants • Collaborate closely with Product, Data, and Business Development teams

🎯 Requirements

• Direct professional experience in crypto trading, quantitative trading, market making, or a closely related market-structure role • Strong understanding of how professional crypto trading firms make money and evaluate infrastructure, data, and execution products • Existing relationships within the crypto trading ecosystem and ability to get high-quality conversations with relevant market participants • Ability to move between qualitative market conversations and quantitative analysis • Strong commercial judgment • Ability to communicate trader workflows and market dynamics clearly to product, engineering, business development, and research teams • Comfortable operating in an early-stage environment • Experience with MEV, block building, order flow, preconfirmations, low-latency infrastructure, or blockchain market structure particularly valuable • Experience evaluating or purchasing market data, execution infrastructure, or trading APIs particularly valuable • Ability to work directly with datasets using SQL, Python, notebooks, or similar analytical tools particularly valuable

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation • Equity • Flexibility • Flexible time off • Fully remote work • Work from wherever you do your best thinking • Meaningful overlap with ET or CET windows (at least 5 hours per day)