Director, Institutional Distribution
KPK is a non-custodial onchain asset manager for DAOs, institutions, and capital allocators, offering treasury mandates, actively managed funds, and curated vaults across DeFi.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About KPK
Founded in 2020 as karpatkey and rebranded to KPK in 2025, KPK manages assets through client-owned Safe smart accounts with limited permissions, policy-enforced execution, automated monitoring, and onchain accounting. Its current offerings include treasury management, KPK Funds, and KPK Vaults.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and convert relationships with institutional allocators into committed allocations. You will explain on-chain yield strategies and associated risks, develop partnerships and distribution agreements, contribute to fund and vault product strategy, and represent the role at senior investor meetings and industry events.
Requirements
- Demonstrate a track record of closing allocations of $50M or more from institutional limited partners
- Explain on-chain yield strategies, delta-neutral positioning, liquidity risk, and smart-contract risk controls to sophisticated investors
- Maintain a deep network of trusted institutional allocator relationships
- Bring experience in capital markets, institutional distribution, or alternatives
- Apply technical fluency in DeFi
- Operate autonomously
Responsibilities
- Originate and convert relationships with institutional allocators into committed allocations
- Translate on-chain yield strategies into investment conviction and drive capital inflows
- Identify and develop partnerships, co-investment structures, and distribution agreements
- Contribute to product structuring and go-to-market strategy for fund and vault products
- Represent KPK at senior investor meetings, conferences, and industry forums
Benefits
- Performance bonus linked to AUM growth
- Flexible globally distributed setup
- 100% remote work
- Direct interaction with leadership and meaningful influence over strategic direction
- Lean environment with no bureaucratic overhead