IFT
Finance / FinServ
CryptoOperationsLead
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“Crypto Operations Lead at IFT. Skills: On-chain treasury operations, Crypto operations, Self-custody treasury management, Gnosis Safe and Zodiac module expertise, Risk mitigation, Incident response, Liquidity management and execution. Own the day-to-day operation, integrity and security of the group's on-chain treasury. Anticipate failure modes and implement mitigation structures and processes”
What You'll Achieve.
Design and implementation of processes, tooling and team for on-chain treasury operations; Growing into design ownership of the wallet architecture; Productionizing existing work and building net-new where required; Defining treasury emergency protocols and operational mechanisms; Ensuring the architecture can absorb incidents without heroics; Escalation path of last resort running through the role; Meeting the reporting standards for internal users, community transparency, and investor diligence; Keeping the recovery path live across the Foundation's multi-year horizon
Industry & Context.
Anticipate failure modes; Implement structures and processes to mitigate them; Reason about and anticipate failure modes in nested-Safe and module-based architectures; Fixing the risks they identify
On-call expectations in true emergencies, Background check might be required
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Crypto-native operator, Deep, first-hand experience operating an institutional-grade crypto treasury under self-custody, Fluent with Gnosis Safe and Zodiac modules (Roles Modifier, Delay Modifier, Guards) and the operational discipline they require, Able to reason about and anticipate failure modes in nested-Safe and module-based architectures, Deep self-custody bias and an internalised crypto-OpSec mindset, Comfortable operating treasury across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction structure, Hands-on operator and builder, Engineering rigour in what you build, bias toward automation and leveraging technology, Proactive, structured, available, Comfortable with remote / async operations and with on-call expectations in true emergencies, Detail-oriented
Nice to Have
Track record executing liquidity moves and hedges at scale across both DeFi venues (DEXs, AMMs, lending, yield) and centralised counterparties (market makers, exchanges, OTC desks), Familiarity with the broader monitoring and response stack (Tenderly, Defender, Hypernative, Forta, Hexagate, Den, PagerDuty, or equivalents), Track record of designing and operating structured, auditable workflows in fast-moving environments, and bringing teams along while doing so
What You'll Do.
Own the day-to-day operation
integrity and security of the group's on-chain treasury
Anticipate failure modes and implement mitigation structures and processes
Own the operational response stack end-to-end (monitoring
Own incident response
Help manage the liquidity component of the treasury within a defined risk mandate
Execute positioning across wallets and chains
Engage with counterparties on hedging
on/off-ramping and liquidity execution
Own crypto and fiat payment execution and the wallet signing workflow
Own crypto treasury reporting
Inherit and grow design ownership of the wallet architecture
Own the cold-custody programme and operational disciplines
Contribute to investment planning of the liquidity treasury tranche
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with the rest of the Finance team; Partner with adjacent Security and Investment functions on shared operational and architectural concerns; Bring teams along while designing and operating structured, auditable workflows
Communication Scope
Comfortable articulating the precise risks and rewards of self-custody vs. centralised custody
Full Job Description
About the role: We are building an institutional-grade on-chain treasury operations function in-house. This is a senior, autonomous hire who takes ownership of the function as it scales - driving the design and implementation of processes, tooling and team, growing into design ownership of the wallet architecture itself over time. Responsibilities: Own the day-to-day operation, integrity and security of the group's on-chain treasury across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, operating fluently within a sophisticated multi-Safe + Zodiac (Roles, Delay) wallet architecture. You anticipate failure modes before they materialise and then implement structures and processes to mitigate them. Own the operational response stack end-to-end - monitoring, alerting, runbooks, drills, on-call escalation, post-mortems. Existing work in this area is taken over, rationalised, productionised and extended; net-new is built where required Own incident response - define what constitutes a treasury emergency, the escalation path, and the operational mechanisms that allow the architecture to absorb incidents without heroics. Within six months, the team's escalation path of last resort runs through you, not the CFO. Personally accountable when true incidents occur, including out of hours Help manage the liquidity component of the treasury within a defined risk mandate. Execute positioning across wallets and chains based on forward-looking instructions from FP&A, and engage with counterparties on hedging, on/off-ramping and liquidity execution. Own crypto and fiat payment execution and the wallet signing workflow - operating it as a structured, auditable process with commercial rationale captured at the point of decision Own crypto treasury reporting - position reconciliation, dashboard data quality, and the on-chain transaction record handed to Finance - to a standard that meets the needs of internal users (including FP&A for their forecasting work), community transparency and invest
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