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Research Lead
Dydx
New YorkHybrid1y ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
- Conduct cutting edge research into market structure, protocol design and mechanics, and incentive design, including
- Internal-facing research to help the business understand user behavior, product performance, and growth opportunities
- External-facing projects to contribute to the global conversation on protocol design, trading, and DeFi evolution
- Educational content to help our audience become more sophisticated traders and product users
- Collaborate with Engineering team and other parts of the business and communicate research findings clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
- Collaborate with the Growth team to identify and define key audience segments and leverage data-driven insights to inform growth strategies and guide product decisions
- Take strong initiative in leading deep and exploratory research on open-ended questions that the team has around core product features and protocol development
- Own and continuously enhance data infrastructure by optimizing systems, evaluating new tools, and promoting data best practices across the organization
- Help define key metrics for protocol health and trader behavior
- Build tools and pipelines to support research reproducibility and insight generation
- Help shape and clearly communicate dYdX’s product strategy through research-driven insights and external thought leadership
- Collaborate with dYdX ecosystem partners and actively engage with the broader user community to enrich the research perspective and stay aligned with ecosystem needs
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in quantitative fields (Math, Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Economics) or a related field
- 4+ years working experience in a technical role (Developer, Analyst, Quant, Data Scientist)
- 2+ years of experience working with blockchain or order book data (e.g. experience indexing blocks, building dashboards in Dune or similar, working with market data from crypto exchanges)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Project management, time management, and ability to multitask
- Proficient with data visualization tools for generating insights and communicating findings effectively
- Entrepreneurial and intellectually curious, with a passion for asking the right questions, exploring data, and developing well-reasoned hypotheses
- Experience in or knowledge of trading (especially HFT), market structure, and derivatives
- Knowledge of and passion for everything in DeFi (especially dYdX!) and web3 with a track record
- Ideally have an existing personal research/content brand
- Experience with our technologies: SQL / Python / Pandas / xarray / Mode / Amplitude / BigQuery
Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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