[Remote] Trading Operations Team Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Anchorage Digital is building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. As the Trading Operations Team Lead, you will manage a global team responsible for supporting clients in their trading activities and ensuring the efficiency of the post-trade lifecycle for various digital asset instruments.

Responsibilities

• Building and managing a global team of trading operations professionals that support our clients in their daily trading activities
• Building the infrastructure of the post-trade lifecycle of the activity of various digital asset instruments, ensuring timely settlements, reconciliation and implementing strong risk mitigation strategies
• Providing thought leadership and strategic support to Anchorage Digital clients
• Leading efforts to develop and refine processes for managing Counterparty and Client post trade processing, defining performance metrics (SLAs, KPIs) and ensuring that they are met while enabling operational scalability
• Overseeing and mentoring a global team responsible for executing spot, lending, and derivatives operations
• Utilizing blockchain explorers, trading platforms, and other relevant software and tools to reconcile and monitor the activity of different digital assets across both internal ledgers and external systems (banks, custodians, etc.)
• Performing cash positioning and inventory management for various product flows to ensure that we have the right assets at the right place at the right time to optimize the firm’s treasury management, mitigate risks, and streamline settlement processes
• Serving as the key liaison between operational teams and engineering/product teams, advocating for operational needs and helping shape the development of the roadmap for platform development to streamline trading, settlement, and risk operations
• Collaborating with the Accounting and Finance teams to ensure timely provision of accurate trade and settlement data and assist in the resolution of breakages
• Developing and implementing process improvement initiatives to ensure optimal operational efficiency
• Staying ahead of developments in the crypto industry, gaining a deep understanding of tokens, protocols, and verticals like staking and governance
• Proactively engaging with business partners to adapt and learn quickly as business strategies evolve and new products and tasks are introduced
• Managing the complexities of designing processes to reconcile and settle transactions involving a wide range of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, and fiat currencies
• Inspiring and leading a high performing team with a shared consciousness and a bias for action
• Identifying operational priorities and creating internal presentations, reports, and/or leading projects to advocate for enhanced internal processes or contribute to the development of new tasks
• Being a prolific manager of individual contributors, building a team capable of delivering day-to-day results on core tasks autonomously
• Effectively gauging, communicating, and mitigating risks to the organization and to clients, thoughtfully addressing complicated questions
• Keeping yourself and your team updated with the evolving cryptocurrency industry trends, regulatory guidelines, and best practices related to settlements and custodial services
• Possessing a comprehensive understanding of different cryptocurrencies, their underlying technologies, and the operational processes involved in custodianship
• Ensuring that knowledge is shared among the team and in conjunction with business partners; do not position yourself or others as a single point of failure
• Being familiar with the responsibilities and interests of interdepartmental teams, as well as fostering collaborative relationships and partnerships to achieve common goals
• Directly managing and coaching members of the team; helping identify any shortcomings in current processes
• Having 'executive presence,' i.e. confidence and composure interfacing with financial investors and C-level executives
• Actively leading discussions within the team to improve processes and productivity, and thoughtfully conveying information and insights with impact when working with other teams to address projects & issues
• Forging relationships with key partners, specifically in support of the organization's Compliance and Product departments, as well as external counterparties
• Collaborating effectively with internal stakeholders, such as traders, operations teams, compliance officers, and executives, to resolve settlement-related issues

Skills

• 7+ years experience supporting post trade activities of institutional clients in both traditional asset classes and crypto assets
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills and agility, to identify emerging risks quickly, brainstorm solutions, and pivot when goals change
• Have led the creation of end-to-end trade operations processes, from trade capture and settlement to reconciliation, Derivatives, and risk management
• A track record of assembling and leading teams that are both efficient and adaptable in the face of evolving business needs
• Deep understanding of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, financial operations, and risk management
• Strong technical skills, the ability to handle complex tasks, organizational knowledge, and effective communication and influence capabilities
• Full understanding of the settlement operations, as well as the regulatory and operational considerations of each step
• Experience in Python and SQL is a plus
• Have experience with and understanding of crypto-native institutions
• A passion for building early-stage startups
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system

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