Capital Markets Lead
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network designed to facilitate fast, low-cost cross-border payments and financial transactions globally.
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About Stellar
Stellar is an open-source blockchain network focused on improving global financial access by enabling fast, secure, and low-cost cross-border transactions. It connects financial institutions, payment systems, and individuals to transfer digital and fiat assets. With a mission to promote financial inclusion, Stellar is designed to serve both developed and underserved markets, offering interoperability between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems.
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About the Role
You will oversee the strategic deployment of capital, risk architecture, and market operations for the digital asset ecosystem. You'll bridge complex DeFi mechanics, capital execution, and corporate governance, architecting the policies, risk controls, and operational workflows that define how the organization engages with the broader market. You'll serve as a primary liaison between trading/DeFi activity and internal accounting, engineering, and executive leadership teams, executing strategies while also researching protocols, managing portfolio risk, optimizing liquidity, and reporting on performance to leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
- 6–10+ years of professional experience in finance, investment banking, or capital markets
- 3+ years of dedicated, hands-on experience within the blockchain/DeFi space
- Advanced knowledge of on-chain data, DeFi protocols (AMM/Lending/CDPs), and market-making dynamics
- Proficiency in using blockchain explorers, on-chain analytics tools (e.g., Dune), and trading platforms
- Proven track record of presenting complex investment and risk strategies to executive-level stakeholders
- Strong experience navigating the intersection of traditional accounting requirements and decentralized finance workflows
- Expert-level quantitative skills with ability to build, maintain, and interpret complex financial models
Responsibilities
- Manage the strategic roadmap for capital deployment to drive ecosystem utility
- Evaluate and integrate high-quality protocols and liquidity solutions
- Drive end-to-end commercial negotiations with institutional co-parties, liquidity providers, market makers, and DeFi protocols
- Serve as the functional point of contact within the DeFi landscape
- Facilitate the execution of cryptocurrency sales and treasury management programs
- Develop and maintain internal options and volatility programs
- Monitor the efficacy of sales and liquidity programs against benchmarks
- Conduct due diligence into emerging DeFi protocols and assets prior to deployment
- Evaluate tokenomics, governance models, technical viability, and strategic fit
- Build economic models of yield dynamics and net carry costs of strategies
- Partner with Deployment Agencies to conduct security diligence on smart contracts
- Operationalize the company's risk appetite frameworks
- Define and implement continuous monitoring controls for smart contract, concentration, collateralization, and credit risk
- Identify emerging systemic risks within the portfolio and design hedging or diversification strategies
- Ensure risk limits are monitored and enforced through automated alerting and reporting
- Monitor market depth, volatility, and liquidity dynamics across key currency pairs
- Propose and execute strategies to optimize liquidity
- Analyze and manage positions related to volatility
- Propose adjustments to lending and borrowing strategies
- Improve the architecture of wallet configurations, position documentation, and fund flow routing
- Act as the primary bridge between Digital Capital Markets and Finance/Accounting
- Ensure all complex DeFi activity is accurately tracked, audited, and reconciled
- Generate high-level performance and risk reports for leadership
- Oversee internal documentation for risk management practices
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
- Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
- Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
- Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
- Life & AD&D (up to $50K)
- Short & Long term disability
- 401K with 4% match
- Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts
- Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution
- Family building benefits through Kindbody
- Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace)
- L&D budget of $1,500/year
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office
- Company retreats
- Lumen-denominated grants