Head of Strategy

Solana; 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 is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.

Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Head of Strategy to join our team. Working directly with our co-founders and alongside our existing growth team, you'll shape and execute our go-to-market strategy. In this role, you will:

• 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

Qualifications

Required

• 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

Preferred

• 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