Director, Quant Strategist
About The Position
We are looking to hire a Director, Quant Strategist to strengthen our US team. By combining hands-on quantitative research with team leadership, the successful candidate will be accountable for developing and monitoring strategies, ensuring model robustness, troubleshooting issues, and driving workflow enhancements. This role will play a central part in driving our DeFi research efforts and requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage and mentor a small team whilst coordinating our team efforts across multiple stakeholders, and cross-regional teams.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, etc.) and SQL with the ability to write production-quality, maintainable code
- Strong grounding in portfolio mathematics, risk modelling and statistical methods
- Experience building and maintaining research infrastructure, including data pipelines, backtesting frameworks, and related tools
- Able to distill complex models into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Collaborate style and effective at working across teams and time zones, fostering strong engagement with colleagues
- Skilled at working with large, complex, and imperfect datasets, extracting signal from noise, and applying methods ranging from classical statistics to machine learning where appropriate
- Typically, 10+ years of relevant experience in digital assets, and/or quantitative research
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in a quantitative field (e.g. Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related discipline)
- Previous experience managing or mentoring a small team of quants, developers, or researchers
Nice To Haves
- Prior exposure to DeFi yield strategies (staking, LP, lending, re-staking)
- Experience with systematic trading across traditional asset classes (equities, FX, commodities, fixed income etc.)
- Demonstrated initiative in generating ideas and improving processes
- Comfort working across time zones and collaborating with distributed teams
Responsibilities
- Conduct research into yield-oriented strategies across of a range of market structures and venues, with an emphasis on identifying risk-adjusted return opportunities
- Design and run backtests to evaluate strategy performance, stress-test assumptions, and establish statistical robustness
- Help deeply analyze protocols to understand mechanics, risks, and potential drivers of yield. Translate insights into research hypotheses and strategy ideas
- Act as a first line of response for alerts, coordinating with global colleagues to escalate and resolve issues quickly
- Translate lessons learned from monitoring into research and operational playbook improvements
- Manage and mentor a team of quants/analysts: run sprints, allocate tasks, and oversee objectives and results
- Conduct code and strategy reviews, enforce testing standards, and support professional development
- Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, and delivery focus
- Present weekly PnL, risk metrics, and performance attribution to senior management
- Ensure transparent communication and reporting to internal stakeholders
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage and emotional well-being support
- market-leading retirement
- generous paid time off and parental leave
- charitable giving employee match program
- educational assistance including student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, and learning resources to develop your career
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Industry
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
