Institutional Solutions Lead
Cycles is developing an open clearing protocol that enables people to privately and securely clear debts using currencies or credit of their choice.
Funding history
About Cycles
Cycles presents an open clearing protocol intended to make debt clearing accessible beyond traditional banking clubs. Its website describes private, secure clearing using different types of currency or credit, and links to its Pay and Prime offerings, whitepaper, blog, careers, and contact channels.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will help shape the product, carry the technical conversation on customer calls, stay close to firms through pilot, and run parts of deals yourself. You bring hands-on trade operations experience from a trading firm to help move Cycles Prime from pilot to production with some of the largest crypto trading firms in the market.
Requirements
- Five to ten years of experience, including trade operations, middle office, or settlement operations experience at a crypto trading firm, OTC desk, market maker, prime broker, exchange, or TradFi institution.
- Knowledge of post-trade processes including settlement, reconciliation, collateral, counterparty risk, and treasury.
- Hands-on experience with settlement stack tools such as Fireblocks, ClearLoop, BitGo Go Network, CUBIX, or similar.
- Experience with TradFi tri-party, prime brokerage platforms, or CCP workflows.
- Post-trade and OEMS tools such as Talos are a plus.
- Understanding of crypto market structure across centralized venues, OTC, and on-chain settlement.
- Ability to communicate with heads of operations or risk leads and translate feedback to product teams.
- High agency and ability to operate without a playbook.
Responsibilities
- Run the account from onboarding through pilot, handling integrations and unblocking issues for buyers and users.
- Support BD and partnerships, working with the executive team on strategy.
- Carry technical and operational conversations with heads of operations, middle office, risk, and treasury.
- Tighten how the company pitches to the operations side of firms.
- Work directly with engineering and leadership on product direction.
- Turn counterparty feedback into real requirements.
- Catch workflow issues before shipping to ensure they hold up in live operations.
Benefits
- A unique, caring, and friendly culture
- 20 days of paid vacation annually
- Company closure from December 25 to January 1
- Annual lifestyle benefits
- Remote-first, flexible work environment
- Annual company retreats
- Paid parental leave
