Remote Crypto Markets & Trading Lead

Optimum

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Equity
Flexible time off
Fully remote
Competitive compensation

Job summary

Optimum is building the world’s first data acceleration network for blockchain edge infrastructure. We seek someone with direct experience in crypto trading markets to collaborate with Product and Data to identify monetizable value for traders and test hypotheses with the right participants.

You will build relationships with traders, lead customer discovery, and work across Product, Data, and BD to develop signals and new offerings for trading firms.

Qualifications

  • Direct professional experience in crypto trading or market-structure roles.
  • Strong ability to translate trader needs into product insights.
  • A track record of quantitative analysis and market sizing.

Responsibilities

  • Understand crypto trading firms' workflows and latency needs.
  • Build relationships with traders and trading firms.
  • Lead customer discovery and turn feedback into product insights.
  • Advocate trader perspectives to product and engineering teams.
  • Conduct market research, including sizing, competition, and pricing potential.
  • Work with data to quantify value of product hypotheses.
  • Create lightweight analyses and simulations to answer economics questions.
  • Prioritize opportunities using actual market evidence.

Skills

Crypto trading experience
Quantitative trading knowledge
Market analysis
Stakeholder communication

Tools

SQL
Python
Jupyter notebooks

Job description

Optimum is building the world’s first data acceleration network for blockchain edge infrastructure. We seek someone with direct experience in crypto trading markets to collaborate with Product and Data to identify monetizable value for traders and test hypotheses with the right participants.

You will build relationships with traders, lead customer discovery, and work across Product, Data, and BD to develop signals and new offerings for trading firms.

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