Lido
Curation Team Lead
NEWš° USD 190,000 - 230,000/yr
Job Description
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You will define the methodology and qualification criteria for selecting on-chain yield strategies, lead financial and reputational due diligence on new opportunities, and set allocation and counterparty exposure limits. You will identify and monitor smart contract, liquidity, counterparty, and market risks, maintain a risk framework with clear thresholds and escalation paths, and own incident response end-to-end. You will define parameters for rebalancing, withdrawals, and vault lifecycle events, build runbooks to avoid single-person dependencies, and work with engineering to automate and audit operational processes. You will document curation rationale, present risk briefs in governance or community forums when needed, and manage relationships with counterparties, protocol teams, and strategy providers.
Requirements
- āExperience in a strategy risk or portfolio role at a DeFi protocol crypto fund or on-chain asset manager
- āBackground in fixed-income portfolio management credit risk or structured products at a bank asset manager or hedge fund or experience in other asset classes
- āHands-on familiarity with yield strategy evaluation and strategy risk assessment
- āWorking knowledge of DeFi risk categories including smart contract risk liquidity risk oracle manipulation and counterparty protocol risk
- āComfortable reading on-chain data and using tools like Dune Tenderly or similar
- āAbility to explain AMM mechanics lending market risk and LST dynamics
- āExperience building in or around DeFi such as reading code running positions or contributing to protocols
- āMaster's degree in Quantitative Economics Finance Statistics Data Science Computer Science or a closely related field
- āStrong analytical foundation including model building and stress-testing assumptions
- āClear direct communication including writing risk briefs and presenting to stakeholders
- āOwnership mindset
- āFamiliarity with modern AI tooling (examples: Claude Codex)
Responsibilities
- āDefine qualification criteria for strategies counterparties and protocols
- āLead financial and reputational due diligence on new opportunities
- āSet allocation limits concentration rules and counterparty exposure caps
- āIdentify and monitor smart contract liquidity counterparty and market risks across active vaults
- āMaintain a risk framework with clear thresholds and escalation paths
- āOwn incident response end-to-end including detection resolution and post-mortem
- āDefine parameters for rebalancing withdrawals and vault lifecycle events
- āBuild runbooks to avoid single-person dependencies
- āCollaborate with engineering to automate and audit operational processes
- āRepresent curation decisions in governance and community forums
- āManage relationships with counterparties protocol teams and strategy providers