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title: 'Operations Lead - Trading at Sei Labs'
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# Operations Lead - Trading at Sei Labs

- **Company:** Sei Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs/5f6db674-0df4-4ee6-a090-ccdbec873ece

## Job description

## About the Company

Sei Labs is a unicorn startup based in NYC building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain in the world designed for trading. We're building a decentralized Wall Street. We're a lean, remote-first team that ships fast, takes full ownership of outcomes and builds from first principles. Sei Labs is incubating a new US regulated exchange from zero to one. You'd be the first hire in your function, with the speed and ownership of a startup and the backing of an established company and an S-tier team (Robinhood, Coinbase, Google, etc.)

## About the role

As Operations Lead, you will own the daily operating engine of our FCM: making sure every trade, position, margin call, cash movement and customer account is processed accurately, on time and under documented controls. You will be the first-line owner of the trade lifecycle and of back- and middle-office operations. You will work closely with Compliance, Risk, Finance and Engineering, with clear first- and second-line responsibilities. You will build the operating model, write the procedures and run them from day one. As volume grows, you will build the team under you.

## What you'll do

- Trade lifecycle and clearing: own end-to-end trade flow, including trade capture and booking, DCM/DCO and other applicable clearing interfaces, and the daily clearing files, statements and confirmations. Make sure data flows in and out correctly.
- Reconciliations and exceptions: run daily trade, position, margin, fee and cash reconciliations, and drive breaks to resolution.
- Margin and positions: run margin processing, margin calls and settlement, and coordinate customer liquidations or position reductions with Risk when thresholds are breached.
- Treasury and customer funds: operate deposit and withdrawal flows across fiat and stablecoin rails, bank and depository movements, and dual-control approvals. Provide the reconciled cash, margin and customer-account data supporting Finance/CFO segregation and residual-interest calculations, and execute required funding movements under established controls.”
- Account lifecycle and customer operations: own the handoff from KYC/AML approval into account opening, plus account maintenance, statements and tax-document workflows. Once live, own operational customer escalations.
- Vendors and resilience: own day-to-day relationships with clearing houses, banks, custodians, funding rails and back-office systems. Run SLAs, incident management and BCP/DR, and lead launch readiness.
- Controls and governance: write procedures, maker-checker controls, key risk and control indicators, and management reporting. Keep clear lines of responsibility with Compliance, Risk, Finance and Engineering.
- Regulatory credibility: explain and defend the operating model to regulators during registration and exams.

## What you bring

- 6+ years of progressively responsible futures/clearing operations experience
- Hands-on, end-to-end trade flow experience: execution, clearing, settlement and reporting.
- Deep experience with position management and margin.
- Working knowledge of FCM obligations, including customer funds segregation, daily segregation computations and books and records.
- A clean regulatory record, with no NFA or FINRA disciplinary history.
- Strong process and control design skills, and comfort writing the playbook rather than following one.
- Data fluency (SQL or advanced Excel) and the ability to partner with engineers on automation.
- Autonomy and composure in a 0-to-1 environment where priorities shift often.

## Nice to have

- Experience with fiat and stablecoin funding rails, or with crypto custody operations.
- Experience with 24/7 markets or perpetual futures.
- Risk operations exposure, such as pre-trade limits and liquidation workflows.
- Experience standing up a new FCM, broker-dealer or product line.
- Familiarity with back-office platforms such as FIS GMI, Rolfe & Nolan, Broadridge or ION, and with CME clearing tools.
- Series 3 or equivalent registration.

## #LI-CG1

## About Sei Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sei Labs is a product-driven research and development lab building the high-performance Sei blockchain, the fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for digital asset trading and global markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $35M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jeff F. (Co-Founder), Jayendra Jog (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Blockchain Infrastructure, Cryptocurrency, FinTech/DeFi
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, trading firms, decentralized exchanges, and consumer-facing Web3 application builders
- **Mission**: To build category-defining products and global-scale blockchain infrastructure, unlocking a new design space for consumer-facing applications and onboarding the next billion users into a vibrant ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **[Sei Blockchain (Sei Network)]**: The fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, purpose-built for trading. Features sub-400ms finality, 200K TPS throughput, and the proprietary Autobahn consensus engine. It is designed to support stablecoins, payments, DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI agent economies.
- **[Monaco Trading]**: A quantitative trading platform and infrastructure project incubated by Sei Labs.
- **Incubations Program**: An internal arm that works with founders and teams dedicated to open access and programmable commerce, helping launch new blockchain-native products.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**:
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.5M (estimated by LinkedIn).
    - **Total Funding**: $35M across 2 rounds.
        - Seed Round (Aug 2022): $5M from 4 investors.
        - Venture Round (Apr 2023): $30M from 10 investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Hudson River Trading, and Flow Traders.
        - Venture Round (Nov 2023): Additional round from 1 investor.
- **Growth Signals**: The Sei blockchain has processed over **5 billion total transactions**. The team has grown ~13.7% year-over-year to 54 employees. Active job postings increased 120% month-over-month, signaling strong hiring momentum. The network is integrated with leading developer tooling and is backed by global infrastructure partners including Visa (via the Sei Foundation).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Performance Moats**: The Sei blockchain holds a performance advantage with sub-400ms finality and 200K TPS, significantly faster than most competing Layer 1 chains. Its Autobahn consensus mechanism (multi-proposer architecture) provides a 50x throughput improvement over Tendermint-based chains.
- **Trading-Specific Design**: Unlike general-purpose blockchains, Sei is purpose-built for digital asset markets with native order book optimizations, making it the go-to infrastructure for trading applications.
- **Top-Tier Backing**: Backed by elite institutional investors from both traditional finance (Jump Crypto, Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders) and crypto-native funds (Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling to "Giga"**: The team is actively developing "Sei Giga," a next-gen upgrade aiming to support the world's largest payment, trading, and consumer AI platforms simultaneously without bottlenecks.
- **Ecosystem Expansion**: Focused on onboarding EVM developers via full compatibility, builder grants, and a thriving community. Key focus areas include Stablecoins & Payments, DeFi, Tokenized Assets, and AI/Agentic Economies.
- **Global Markets**: Positioning the Sei blockchain as "The Onchain Standard for Global Finance," targeting institutional adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Team & Culture**: Described as a "product-driven research & development lab" staffed by veterans from Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, Nvidia, and Databricks. The culture is heavily technical and research-oriented, with a focus on open-source development.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/On-site. Offices in **San Francisco (HQ)** and **New York City**. Job listings specify "Hybrid" or "Remote or Hybrid," indicating flexibility, though most roles require some in-office presence.
- **Notable Perks**: Work at the frontier of blockchain scalability and speed. Employees get to work on extremely high-impact infrastructure problems (consensus, storage, trading systems) that handle billions of transactions.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on R&D. The team is split ~18% technical (engineers, researchers) with active recruiting for Protocol Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Quantitative Developers. The work is on "category-defining" global-scale blockchain infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Official Sei Labs Website](https://www.seilabs.io/)
2. [Sei Network (Blockchain Product)](https://www.sei.io/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seilabs)
4. [Built In Profile & Reviews](https://builtin.com/company/sei-labs)
5. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs)

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