Trading Operations Team Lead

Trading Operations Team Lead

• Responsible for building and managing a global team of trading operations professionals supporting daily trading activities for clients.
• Build the infrastructure of the post‑trade lifecycle for various digital asset instruments, ensuring timely settlements, reconciliation, and strong risk mitigation.
• Deep understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, financial operations, and risk management.
• Problem solver with strong technical, organizational and communication skills to drive business outcomes.
• Full understanding of settlement operations, regulatory and operational considerations.
• Support client interactions across multiple teams and work closely with trading and other client operations areas to develop and refine processes.

• Leverage deep understanding of traditional financial services, products and strategies to provide thought leadership and strategic support to clients.
• Lead efforts to develop and refine processes for managing counter party and client post‑trade processing, defining performance metrics (SLAs, KPIs) and ensuring they are met while enabling operational scalability.
• Oversee and mentor a global team responsible for executing spot, lending, and derivatives operations, ensuring alignment with broader strategic objectives.
• Utilize blockchain explorers, trading platforms and relevant tools to reconcile and monitor activity of different digital assets across internal ledgers and external systems.
• Perform cash positioning and inventory management for various product flows to optimize treasury management, mitigate risks and streamline settlement processes.
• Serve as key liaison between operational teams and engineering/product teams, advocating for operational needs and shaping development road‑maps.
• Collaborate with Accounting and Finance to ensure timely provision of accurate trade and settlement data and assist in resolving breakages.
• Develop and implement process improvement initiatives to ensure optimal operational efficiency.
• Stay ahead of developments in the crypto industry, deeply understanding tokens, protocols, and verticals such as staking and governance.

• Proactively engage with business partners to adapt quickly as strategies evolve and new products/tasks are introduced.
• Manage complexities of designing processes for reconciling and settling transactions involving a wide range of digital assets.
• Inspire and lead a high‑performing team, prioritizing competing demands and ensuring deadlines are met to drive operational excellence.
• Identify operational priorities, create internal presentations, reports, and lead projects to advocate for enhanced processes or develop new tasks.
• Manage individual contributors, building a team capable of delivering core tasks autonomously.
• Effectively gauge, communicate, and mitigate risks to the organization and clients, addressing complicated questions thoughtfully.

• Keep self and team updated with evolving cryptocurrency industry trends, regulatory guidelines, and best practices.
• Possess a comprehensive understanding of different cryptocurrencies, underlying technologies, and custodial operational processes.
• Share knowledge within the team and with business partners, avoiding single points of failure.
• Be familiar with responsibilities and interests of interdepartmental teams, fostering collaborative relationships to achieve common goals.

• Directly manage and coach team members, identifying shortcomings in current processes.
• Exhibit executive presence when interfacing with financial investors and C‑level executives.
• Lead discussions within the team to improve processes and convey insights with impact when addressing projects and issues.
• Forge relationships with key partners, especially Compliance and Product, and external counter parties.
• Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, such as traders, operations teams, compliance officers, and executives.

• 7+ years experience supporting post‑trade activities of institutional clients in both traditional asset classes and crypto assets.
• Demonstrated…