Crypto Operations Lead

Role Description

We are building an institutional-grade on-chain treasury operations function in-house. This is a senior, autonomous hire who takes ownership of the function as it scales - driving the design and implementation of processes, tooling and team, growing into design ownership of the wallet architecture itself over time.

• Own the day-to-day operation, integrity and security of the group's on-chain treasury across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, operating fluently within a sophisticated multi-Safe + Zodiac (Roles, Delay) wallet architecture.
• Anticipate failure modes before they materialize and implement structures and processes to mitigate them.
• Own the operational response stack end-to-end - monitoring, alerting, runbooks, drills, on-call escalation, post-mortems.
• Take over existing work in this area, rationalize, productionize, and extend; build net-new where required.
• Define what constitutes a treasury emergency, the escalation path, and the operational mechanisms that allow the architecture to absorb incidents without heroics.
• Be personally accountable when true incidents occur, including out of hours.
• Help manage the liquidity component of the treasury within a defined risk mandate.
• Execute positioning across wallets and chains based on forward-looking instructions from FP&A, and engage with counterparties on hedging, on/off-ramping and liquidity execution.
• Own crypto and fiat payment execution and the wallet signing workflow - operating it as a structured, auditable process with commercial rationale captured at the point of decision.
• Own crypto treasury reporting - position reconciliation, dashboard data quality, and the on-chain transaction record handed to Finance.
• Inherit and grow design ownership of the wallet architecture from the CFO over time.
• Own the cold-custody programme and the operational disciplines that keep the recovery path live across the Foundation's multi-year horizon.
• Contribute to investment planning of the liquidity treasury tranche through the Investment Committee.
• Partner closely with the rest of the Finance team and with adjacent Security and Investment functions on shared operational and architectural concerns.

Qualifications

• Crypto-native operator with deep, first-hand experience operating an institutional-grade crypto treasury under self-custody.
• Fluent with Gnosis Safe and Zodiac modules (Roles Modifier, Delay Modifier, Guards) and the operational discipline they require.
• Deep self-custody bias and an internalized crypto-OpSec mindset.
• Comfortable operating treasury across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction structure.
• Hands-on operator and builder - you design the framework and run it.
• Engineering rigor in what you build - documentation, runbooks, deployable infrastructure, tested recovery paths.
• Strong bias toward automation and leveraging technology.
• Proactive, structured, available; comfortable with remote/async operations and on-call expectations.

Requirements

• Track record executing liquidity moves and hedges at scale across both DeFi venues and centralized counterparties.
• Familiarity with the broader monitoring and response stack (Tenderly, Defender, Hypernative, Forta, Hexagate, Den, PagerDuty, or equivalents).
• Track record of designing and operating structured, auditable workflows in fast-moving environments.

Hiring Process

• Introduction call with the Talent team.
• Interview with the CFO.
• Compensated Task + Assessment (3-4 hours of work).
• Interview with Program Lead.
• Interview with Co-founder.

Note: A background check might be required for this role.