Head of Markets / DEX GM — Autheo Spot & Perpetual Venue | Infra, RWA & Agent Derivatives

Launch Legends • Cheyenne, WY

39d • Remote

About The Position

Autheo is recruiting the person who will own the exchange, not the listings. THEO already trades. Hydrex, Uniswap on Robinhood Chain, and MEXC are live. Enflux is already the liquidity partner across those venues. A separate seat, VP of Exchanges & Token Markets, owns CEX/DEX listing relationships for the THEO coin. This role is different. You will design and ship Autheo’s own spot and perpetual venue: a CEX-grade order book for crypto, and the first serious derivatives books on infrastructure, real-world assets, and agents. The comparable set is dYdX, Hyperliquid, and Lighter on execution. The product is not a copy of those books. Those venues own crypto perps, and increasingly TradFi. Autheo’s wedge is markets whose underlyings are things the network already meters: compute, storage, bandwidth, validator capacity, tokenized real-world assets, and agent credits and SLAs, settled on Autheo with TheoID as the identity of the trader, human or agent. This is the Jeff Yan seat. You own the venue as a product and a P&L: architecture choice, listing policy, fee schedule, maker program, insurance fund, and whether v1 is a validator-run matcher on the Cosmos stack, an off-chain matcher with proofs settling on the Autheo EVM, or a native CLOB. You hire the Head of Trading Systems and the Head of Risk & Oracles. If you cannot recruit those two, you are not the right hire. You will work with leadership, engineering, legal, treasury, and the existing exchange-relations seat. You will not rebuild the MEXC or Hydrex listing. You will decide what Autheo lists on its own book, and ship it.

Requirements

• Shipped a live order-book or hybrid spot+perp venue with real open interest, not a pitch deck and not an AMM
• Can defend matching, latency, cancel/replace, funding, and liquidation failure modes in a working session
• Designed or operated margin, insurance fund, and oracle policy under stress, not only in a document
• Can specify an oracle and a liquidation rule for at least one non-crypto underlying (infra meter, RWA, or agent SLA)
• Will own the venue before salary normalizes, and can recruit the trading-systems and risk seats
• Exceptional written judgment. The first deliverable is a spec, not a slogan

Nice To Haves

• Time at Hyperliquid, Lighter, dYdX, Injective, Sei, Osmosis, or a Jump / Wintermute / HRT / Citadel crypto desk
• Experience listing a non-crypto underlying with a defensible oracle (Ostium, trade.xyz, Ondo-adjacent perps, or equivalent)
• Comfort with Cosmos SDK custom modules, EVM settlement, or zk-proven matching
• Familiarity with agent identity, DID, or post-quantum key material as a trading primitive
• Regulatory judgment on RWA perps and US persons. Fractional Markets Counsel can cover the rest

Responsibilities

• Own the Autheo spot + perpetual venue from spec to mainnet: product, market structure, and operating P&L
• Choose and defend the v1 architecture against Autheo L1: validator-run matching on the Cosmos stack, off-chain matcher with zk proofs and EVM settlement, or native CLOB. A builder-deployed market on someone else’s engine is a go-to-market tactic, not the product
• Define the v1 market set: THEO spot, two to three crypto perps, one infrastructure future (compute-unit or storage-unit), one RWA, one agent-credit or agent-SLA market. Name the oracle for each before it lists
• Set listing policy, fee schedule, maker rebates, funding, margin, liquidation, insurance fund, and ADL rules that survive a crash day
• Design market structure for non-price underlyings: infra utilization, RWA NAV, agent performance. Crypto-only risk design is not enough
• Recruit and lead the first two specialist seats: Head of Trading Systems (matching, latency, cancel/replace) and Head of Risk, Clearing & Oracles
• Stand up the market-maker program for the venue. Enflux already supports THEO across MEXC, Hydrex, and Robinhood Chain; the venue needs a desk network and a ruleset they will quote
• Coordinate with Markets Counsel on what cannot be listed into the US without a wrapper, and with the VP of Exchanges on what stays a THEO listing versus what belongs on the Autheo book
• Publish the risk paper: margin, funding, liquidation, oracle manipulation, insurance fund
• Report venue milestones to leadership: architecture decision, market list, MM term sheet, testnet book, mainnet criteria

Benefits

• Equity in Launch Legends
• Equity in Autheo
• Equity in WFO Creator Network
• Token allocations in the Autheo blockchain
• Salaried compensation is expected to begin within 4 to 5 months, following our node, token sales, or funding.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed