Trading Operations Lead

Gauntlet; Hong Kong; Remote; HKD 942,000 - 1,138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote first

Company retreats

Medical & Dental

WFH stipend

Home internet reimbursement

Unlimited vacation

Job summary

Gauntlet is seeking an APAC-based Trading Operations Lead to oversee vaults and trading strategies during Asian market hours. You will monitor live strategies, respond to incidents, and work with Product and Business Development to align partner requirements across Asia.

Fluency in Mandarin and English and practical live-market experience are essential. The role emphasizes on-call coverage, collaboration across time zones, and driving safe, efficient operations while expanding strategy reach in

Qualifications

• Experience working directly with live financial markets in trading operations, execution, or similar
• Strong understanding of market dynamics and trading strategies
• Ability to recognise unusual market behaviour and implications
• Good judgment under pressure to investigate and escalate when needed
• Technical aptitude to understand how trading strategies work without being a software engineer
• Excellent communication across teams and with partners
• Business fluency in Mandarin and English

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of trading operations and on-call coverage during APAC hours across vaults and strategy teams
• Monitor live vaults and strategies, investigate alerts, and identify risks using dashboards and onchain data
• Respond to incidents following playbooks and escalate to relevant teams
• Collaborate with cross-timezone teams to improve processes and handovers
• Stay informed on crypto and traditional markets and share insights with the team
• Support BD in technical discussions with APAC partners and explore new strategies
• Help improve tools, monitoring processes, and day-to-day operational docs

Skills

Live markets experience

Trading operations

Market dynamics

Decision making under pressure

Technical aptitude

Communication skills

Mandarin & English fluency

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

The role

Gauntlet is looking for a Trading Operations Lead based in APAC to help oversee our vaults and trading strategies during Asian market hours.

You’ll work closely with our strategy and curation teams, monitoring live strategies, investigating alerts, and responding when markets move or something isn’t behaving as expected. We already operate a 24/7 on‑call rotation, and this hire will help us build out more consistent coverage across time zones, with someone based in APAC who can take ownership when issues arise.

The workload is varied, with a primary focus on ensuring our vaults and trading strategies operate safely and effectively during APAC hours. You’ll be responsible for monitoring live strategies, responding to incidents, and supporting new vault and strategy launches, particularly during periods of increased market activity.

Alongside your operational responsibilities, you’ll also work closely with our Product and Business Development teams, acting as a technical point of contact for partners across Asia. This includes explaining how our vaults and strategies work, understanding partner requirements, and helping explore opportunities for strategy expansion. With a growing proportion of our business coming from APAC, we’re looking for someone who can comfortably have these conversations in both Mandarin and English.

This isn’t a traditional engineering or quantitative research role. We’re looking for someone with practical experience in live markets who understands how trading strategies operate, follows market developments closely, and knows how to respond when something goes wrong, and can partner and collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

About Gauntlet

Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. While much of onchain finance is focused on point solutions, we operate across the entire stack to offer best‑in‑class vault products. Today we serve over $1.5B in client TVL across some of the largest fintechs/neobanks, protocols, exchanges, and capital allocators in crypto – and, increasingly, traditional asset management. Our team brings together traditional finance and crypto‑native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.

What you'll do;

• Take ownership of trading operations and on‑call coverage during APAC hours, working across our vault strategy and curation teams


• Monitor live vaults and strategies, investigate alerts, and identify unexpected behavior or potential risks using internal dashboards and onchain data


• Respond to operational incidents, following established playbooks where appropriate and escalating to the relevant teams when needed


• Work with teams across different timezones to improve operational processes, incident response procedures, and handovers


• Stay close to crypto and broader financial markets, identifying developments that could impact our strategies and sharing relevant insights with the team


• Support Business Development in technical discussions with APAC partners, helping explain our products, understand requirements, and explore potential new strategies


• Help improve the tools, monitoring processes, and documentation that support our day‑to‑day operations

What we're looking for;

• Experience working directly with live financial markets, ideally in trading operations, execution, or a similar role at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, trading desk, or crypto trading business


• A strong understanding of market dynamics and trading strategies, with the ability to recognise unusual market behaviour and understand the potential implications


• Someone who actively follows crypto and traditional financial markets and is comfortable making decisions as new information comes in


• Good judgment under pressure, with the confidence to investigate issues independently, resolve what you can, and elevate when necessary


• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to understand how trading strategies work without necessarily being a software engineer or quantitative researcher


• Excellent communication skills, with experience working across teams and explaining technical concepts to different audiences


• Business fluency in both Mandarin and English

Nice to have

• Experience working with DeFi protocols, onchain trading, or digital asset strategies


• Experience working directly with institutional clients or partners in a technical capacity, including solutions engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or supporting the implementation of trading strategies


• Familiarity with Python, SQL, or other tools used for data analysis and monitoring

What success looks like;

First 30 days

You’ll have developed a good understanding of Gauntlet’s vaults, strategies, and operational processes. You’ll have started shadowing the existing on‑call rotation, become familiar with our monitoring tools and playbooks, and joined initial partner conversations with the Product and BD teams.

First 3-6 months

You’ll be independently managing APAC‑hours operations, handling incidents confidently, and knowing when to involve the wider team. You’ll have helped improve runbooks and handovers between regions and will be comfortable leading technical discussions with partners.

Within 12 months

You’ll have established yourself as the go‑to person for trading operations in APAC, providing reliable coverage for our strategies and helping strengthen our global operating model. You’ll also be a trusted technical resource for our regional partners and internal teams.

Perks & Benefits;

• Remote first


• Regular in‑person company retreats and cross‑country "office visit" perk


• 100% paid medical & Dental


• $1,000 WFH stipend


• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data


• Unlimited vacation

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

The national pay range for this role is $120,000 - $145,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits, and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.