About Wintermute
Wintermute is a hyper-growth fintech startup and one of the largest players in the global digital asset markets. We provide liquidity algorithmically across most cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, as well as support high profile blockchain projects and traditional financial institutions moving into crypto.
Culturally, we combine the best traits of both trading companies and technology startups. As a trading company, we manage hundreds of millions in assets, trade more than $5B+/day across dozens of trading platforms and are highly profitable in doing so. As a technology startup, we build, innovate and move incredibly fast, we create best-in-class liquidity products that create more efficient markets. We believe that traditional finance has to change and we are on a mission to define and build the decentralized future of finance.
Strategy & Operations team
Strategy & Operations team is in the COO office of Wintermute tasked with scaling the company to its next very ambitious milestones.
Your role will be very varied and cross-functional. You will be co-designing, owning and implementing strategic initiatives as well as building the core business functions for scale. Expect to be very practical and hands-on!
It is an incredibly unique opportunity to be part of the startup that has already become a global market leader in its category, achieved commercial success and is yet small enough (in terms of headcount), so you can make a big difference!
Note: this role is not about “giving advice to management” and “high-level strategy design” or managing others. The role is about making important things happen.
An opportunity to get:
All-round experience growing a successful businesses from X to YExperience designing processes and scaling operations across a very wide set of functional areas, many of them likely new to youHands-on entrepreneurial experience and experience building thingsInfluence on shaping your role: your specific projects and responsibilities will be the intersection of your talents/interests and company needs; there is no limit to the scope of the roleA lot of personal accountability and related non-liner rewards for resultsExperience working in the most dynamic and exciting industry of the decade in a company that has a very diversified expose to it (you do not bet on a specific token, protocol or product)
A sample range of functional subject areas:
Go-to-market: business development processes, sales operations, product marketing
New businesses: setting up new entities, businesses and markets
Finance: financial planning and modelling, cost of capital optimizations, corporate structuring and tokenomics, investor updates
Talent operations: employer marketing, events, recruitment of key functions
Product: product and project management
Partnerships: projects relating to setting up new partner relationships, e.g. clearers, prime brokers and other strategic service providers
Reporting & analytics: automation, data and analytics
Crypto and market analytics: analysis of ecosystems, projects, players, markets
Hard Skills Requirements
3-7 years experience in a high-performance environment, such as management consulting, investment banking, PE, VC-backed startup, law firm, etcTop tier MBA may be a plus but isn’t necessaryStrong problem solving skills, both quantitative and qualitative – we will testStrong communication skills - be able to communicate clearly, concisely and listen wellAbility and interest to learn about new technologies fast, both on conceptual (e.g. how DeFi protocols work) and hands-on (how to use automation tools) levels
Other Requirements
Curiosity in the world of finance, trading, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies; if you are not interested to follow the industry in spare time “because it’s fascinating”, it will be hard to keep upAbility to see the big picture, design processes from scratch and break down big strategic projects into small executable steps (and execute them too)Results-driven and ability to get things done in a fast and efficient way, good at making sure the "trains run on time"A healthy level of self-awareness and ability to learn on own mistakesLike meritocracy and being judged by what you deliverOwnership mentality, prepared to work beyond 9-to-5 to achieve what is required for the businessLike working in the team environment working from our London office (as much as Covid restrictions allow)
Wintermute offer
Distinct company
culture Aligned incentive structure: on top of competitive fixed compensation you get significant performance-based variable payA cool office in central London with sci-fi touch, including its own “living room”, game room gym, stocked kitchen, etc (although this is probably a wrong reason to join any company!)Weekly team events, such as team lunches, team dinners, team board games and Dota playing sessions; these are not obligatory in any sense, but this is what we like to do
Tips for Successful Application
Only apply to us if you are genuinely interested in this roleDo your basic research: look at our website and social media channels (Twitter, LinkedIn, etc)Be candid and direct when answering application questions, do not send us generic copy paste answers; we are looking for authentic people with clear motivationsIf you don't have an obviously matching experience or skills, make sure you state very clearly what you can bring or how your experience is relevant or transferableWe get a lot of applications, so unfortunately, we won't be able to proceed if you don’t take the application seriously; we read all applications, all your answers and we promise to reply to everyone who puts time and effort into making the application relevant!
