Crypto Markets and Trading Lead
Optimum operates a permissionless data-acceleration network for Web3.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Optimum
Optimum is a blockchain infrastructure company building a decentralized data-acceleration network powered by Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC). Its currently available mump2p protocol provides libp2p/GossipSub-compatible propagation of blocks, blobs, and transactions, aiming to reduce latency and bandwidth use without requiring consensus changes. The organization serves L1/L2 teams, validators, node operators, dApp developers, and end users; it also operates a permissionless network of Flexnodes and documents Optimum Gateway for builders and operators.
Skills
About the Role
You will bring your crypto trading-market expertise to product discovery and opportunity evaluation. You will build relationships with market participants, translate their needs into product insights, analyze market and blockchain data, and help prioritize valuable, monetizable offerings.
Requirements
- Professional experience in crypto trading, quantitative trading, market making, or a related market-structure role
- Understanding of professional crypto trading-firm economics and evaluation of infrastructure, data, and execution products
- Relationships within the crypto trading ecosystem
- Ability to conduct qualitative market conversations and quantitative analysis
- Commercial judgment
- Ability to communicate trader workflows and market dynamics to product, engineering, business development, and research stakeholders
- Ability to operate in an early-stage environment
- Experience with MEV, block building, order flow, preconfirmations, low-latency infrastructure, or blockchain market structure
- Experience evaluating or purchasing market data, execution infrastructure, or trading APIs
- Ability to work with datasets using SQL, Python, notebooks, or similar analytical tools
Responsibilities
- Develop an understanding of crypto trading-firm operations, information needs, latency, and infrastructure opportunities
- Build and maintain relationships with traders, quantitative trading firms, market makers, and relevant market participants
- Lead and support customer discovery and translate feedback into actionable product insights
- Advocate internally for trader workflows, incentives, constraints, and priorities
- Conduct market research, market sizing, competitive analysis, and pricing analysis
- Analyze blockchain and market data with the Data team to quantify product-hypothesis value
- Build analyses and simulations to evaluate beneficiaries, value, and conditions
- Evaluate and prioritize opportunities using market evidence
- Support the development of valuable and monetizable offerings
- Track crypto market structure, MEV, execution infrastructure, trading strategies, and emerging participants
Benefits
- Equity
- Flexibility
- Flexible time off
- Fully remote work
- Work from wherever you do your best thinking