Decentralized Exchange - Senior IC Risk Quant

<p><strong>About the Company</strong></p> <p>The company is the world’s first licensed hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX), on a mission to make wealth-building as natural as daily life. It is building a compliant, self-custodial platform for premium tokenized strategies—from crypto to alternative investments—on trusted infrastructure. Backed by top-tier investors including Further Ventures, Matrix Partners, Delphi Digital, Hack VC, QCP, and SIG.</p> <p><strong>Core Requirements</strong></p> <p>The company seeks exceptional senior individual contributors who combine strong product leadership with deep quantitative skills. Candidates should demonstrate:</p> <ul> <li>Prior experience building or operating trading venues, exchanges, or market infrastructure</li> <li>Strong background as a quant, trader, or financial modeler, with hands-on experience designing or validating trading or risk models</li> <li>Proven Product Manager strength: Owning outcomes end-to-end, driving cross-functional alignment, writing high-quality precise specifications</li> <li>Deep understanding of margining, liquidation, leverage, and systemic risk mechanics</li> <li>Strong operational mindset and comfort owning systems in production</li> <li>Excellent communication skills, especially explaining complex quantitative reasoning clearly</li> <li>Sound judgment under ambiguity and high-stakes decision-making</li> </ul> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><strong>1) Quantitative Product Ownership</strong></p> <ul> <li>Devise and own consistent, coherent quantitative direction across trading, margining, liquidation, lending, and risk-related products</li> <li>Ensure models, parameters, and mechanisms form a harmonious system</li> <li>Own end-to-end correctness, feasibility, and desirability in production, preventing edge cases, stress scenarios, and failures</li> <li>Handle feedback on quantitative behavior: Answer questions, diagnose issues, drive fixes</li> <li>Treat post-launch as ongoing design, refining models based on outcomes while prioritizing consistency</li> </ul> <p><strong>2) Cross-Functional Leadership &amp; Execution</strong></p> <ul> <li>Serve as product owner for complex quantitative areas</li> <li>Write clear, precise specifications for engineers</li> <li>Translate concepts for diverse audiences: Simplified models for users/partners, implementation details for engineers, risk framing for leadership</li> <li>Drive alignment: Surface concerns, address feedback, secure decisions</li> <li>Validate implementations through deep testing, focusing on edge cases, and remain accountable for correctness</li> </ul> <p><strong>3) Operational Ownership &amp; Risk Management (Primary Focus)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Take on-call responsibility for quantitative systems and risk-sensitive behavior</li> <li>Respond to incidents involving abnormal trading, liquidation anomalies, margin/risk issues, or extreme markets</li> <li>Make real-time decisions: Diagnose root causes, advise mitigations, balance user impact and safety</li> <li>Lead post-incident analysis: Address root causes, integrate learnings</li> <li>Proactively identify and mitigate systemic risks with teams</li> <li>Design products for operability: Observability, explainability, safe failure modes</li> </ul>