Growth & GTM Strategy Lead for DeFi & Perpetuals

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Ellipsis Labs seeks a Head of Strategy to shape and execute go-to-market plans for Phoenix Perpetuals in New York. You will work directly with our co-founders and the growth team to drive growth across traders, market makers, and integrators.

This role requires hands-on GTM leadership, capital allocation for scalable growth, and raising operational standards across the GTM function to maximize product adoption and revenue growth.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated rigor in written and verbal communication.
• Ability and desire to pick up context in a deeply technical domain where details matter.
• Strong work ethic and high agency.
• Bias toward reasoning from first principles.
• Hands-on experience in a go-to-market function.
• Experience in systematic trading, exchanges, and crypto.
• Experience managing and measuring user acquisition and marketing budgets.
• Familiarity with perpetual futures, derivatives, and on-chain trading.

Responsibilities

• Own growth strategy and execution for Phoenix across target user types (traders, market makers, integrators) and channels.
• Deploy capital into scalable, sustainable, and measurable growth strategies, including marketing and incentives.
• Raise the bar for operational rigor throughout the GTM organization.

Skills

Communication

Contextual understanding

Proactivity

First principles

Go-to-market

Crypto / trading

Marketing budgets

Derivatives / on-chain trading

Job description

Ellipsis Labs seeks a Head of Strategy to shape and execute go-to-market plans for Phoenix Perpetuals in New York. You will work directly with our co-founders and the growth team to drive growth across traders, market makers, and integrators.

This role requires hands-on GTM leadership, capital allocation for scalable growth, and raising operational standards across the GTM function to maximize product adoption and revenue growth.