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title: 'Trading Operations Lead at Gauntlet'
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# Trading Operations Lead at Gauntlet

- **Company:** Gauntlet
- **Location:** Singapore / Hong Kong
- **Compensation:** $120k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet/dac100e9-01f6-4bf5-9285-221d572f8278

## Job description

## The role

Gauntlet is looking for a Trading Operations Lead based in APAC to help oversee our vaults and trading strategies during Asian market hours.

You'll work closely with our strategy and curation teams, monitoring live strategies, investigating alerts, and responding when markets move or something isn't behaving as expected. We already operate a 24/7 on-call rotation, and this hire will help us build out more consistent coverage across timezones, with someone based in APAC who can take ownership when issues arise.

The workload is varied, with a primary focus on ensuring our vaults and trading strategies operate safely and effectively during APAC hours. You'll be responsible for monitoring live strategies, responding to incidents, and supporting new vault and strategy launches, particularly during periods of increased market activity.

Alongside your operational responsibilities, you'll also work closely with our Product and Business Development teams, acting as a technical point of contact for partners across Asia. This includes explaining how our vaults and strategies work, understanding partner requirements, and helping explore opportunities for strategy expansion. With a growing proportion of our business coming from APAC, we're looking for someone who can comfortably have these conversations in both Mandarin and English.

This isn't a traditional engineering or quantitative research role. We're looking for someone with practical experience in live markets who understands how trading strategies operate, follows market developments closely, and knows how to respond when something goes wrong, and can partner and collaborate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

## About Gauntlet

Gauntlet builds the financial systems of the future. While much of onchain finance is focused on point solutions, we operate across the entire stack to offer best-in-class vault products. Today we serve over $1.5B in client TVL across some of the largest fintechs/neobanks, protocols, exchanges, and capital allocators in crypto — and, increasingly, traditional asset management. Our team brings together traditional finance and crypto-native expertise to deliver durable, sophisticated products for institutional clients moving onchain.

## What you'll do;

- Take ownership of trading operations and on-call coverage during APAC hours, working across our vault strategy and curation teams.
- Monitor live vaults and strategies, investigate alerts, and identify unexpected behavior or potential risks using internal dashboards and onchain data.
- Respond to operational incidents, following established playbooks where appropriate and escalating to the relevant teams when needed.
- Work with teams across different timezones to improve operational processes, incident response procedures, and handovers.
- Stay close to crypto and broader financial markets, identifying developments that could impact our strategies and sharing relevant insights with the team.
- Support Business Development in technical discussions with APAC partners, helping explain our products, understand requirements, and explore potential new strategies.
- Help improve the tools, monitoring processes, and documentation that support our day-to-day operations.

## What we're looking for;

- Experience working directly with live financial markets, ideally in trading operations, execution, or a similar role at a hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, trading desk, or crypto trading business.
- A strong understanding of market dynamics and trading strategies, with the ability to recognise unusual market behaviour and understand the potential implications.
- Someone who actively follows crypto and traditional financial markets and is comfortable making decisions as new information comes in.
- Good judgment under pressure, with the confidence to investigate issues independently, resolve what you can, and escalate when necessary.
- Strong technical aptitude and the ability to understand how trading strategies work without necessarily being a software engineer or quantitative researcher.
- Excellent communication skills, with experience working across teams and explaining technical concepts to different audiences.
- Business fluency in both Mandarin and English.

## Nice to have

- Experience working with DeFi protocols, onchain trading, or digital asset strategies.
- Experience working directly with institutional clients or partners in a technical capacity, including solutions engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or supporting the implementation of trading strategies.
- Familiarity with Python, SQL, or other tools used for data analysis and monitoring.

What success looks like;

First 30 days

You'll have developed a good understanding of Gauntlet's vaults, strategies, and operational processes. You'll have started shadowing the existing on-call rotation, become familiar with our monitoring tools and playbooks, and joined initial partner conversations with the Product and BD teams.

First 3–6 months

You'll be independently managing APAC-hours operations, handling incidents confidently, and knowing when to involve the wider team. You'll have helped improve runbooks and handovers between regions and will be comfortable leading technical discussions with partners.

Within 12 months

You'll have established yourself as the go-to person for trading operations in APAC, providing reliable coverage for our strategies and helping strengthen our global operating model. You'll also be a trusted technical resource for our regional partners and internal teams.

## Perks & Benefits;

- Remote first

- Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk

- 100% paid medical & Dental

- $1,000 WFH stipend

- Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data

- Unlimited vacation

## About Gauntlet

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Gauntlet provides quantitative risk management and yield optimization infrastructure for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and institutions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $125M led by SBI Holdings, closed July 2026)
- **Headquarters**: New York City, USA (with remote options and offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles)
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Tarun Chitra (CEO) and Rei Chiang (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: DeFi / Blockchain / Quantitative Risk Management / Asset Management
- **Target customers**: B2B – DeFi protocols, crypto exchanges, wallets, asset issuers, financial institutions
- **Mission**: “Driving adoption and understanding of the financial systems of the future” by applying rigorous quantitative simulation and optimization to DeFi

## Products & Services
- **[Gauntlet Vaults](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Full-stack, self-custodial yield strategies for institutions, rebalancing across lending, restaking, and multi-strategy vaults. Integrates with apps via APIs.
- **[Risk Management Platform](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Model-driven risk monitoring and simulation for protocols, covering over 400 million data points daily across a dozen L1s/L2s.
- **[Applied Research](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about)**: Published 40+ research papers (1,000+ citations) on crypto-native economics and risk, partnered with Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Decibel, and more.
- **[Partner Solutions](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)**: Embedded yield for wallets (e.g., Privy, KAST) and treasury management (e.g., Utila, SCRYPT).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Total Value Locked (TVL) in Gauntlet vaults: $1.3 billion (self-custodial)
  - Client Assets Protected: $42 billion
  - Assets under vault management: $1.6 billion+
  - 150+ institutional clients
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investor in Series C: SBI Holdings [$125M, July 2026](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/)
  - Early backers include Paradigm, Pantera, Coinbase Ventures (inferred from earlier rounds, not explicitly listed in provided sources; we only have Series C disclosed)
  - Key partners: Morpho, Penfle, Aera, Compound, Uniswap, NEAR, Privy, KAST, Utila, SCRYPT
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Closed $125M Series C in July 2026, led by SBI Holdings, signaling strong institutional interest
  - Processed a $775M supply event in 10 days with full APY recovery (Oct 2025)
  - Expanded from pure risk management into yield vaults; now powering 500K+ users via KAST neobank

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quantitative rigor**: Founders bring deep experience from HFT, physics simulations, and self-driving vehicle marketplace modeling, applied to DeFi.
- **Proven track record**: 8+ years of managing risk for the largest DeFi protocols with no major capital loss events (across multiple market cycles).
- **Full-stack offering**: Combines risk management, yield optimization, and onchain infrastructure (via Aera) – rare in the industry.
- **Institutional-grade security**: Multi‑layer security for both onchain and offchain surfaces, audited by top firms (implied by “institutional-grade” on homepage).

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Series C led by SBI Holdings (Japan) indicates a push into Asian institutional markets.
- **Embedded yield**: Partnering with wallets (Privy) and neobanks (KAST) to bring DeFi yield to mainstream users.
- **Deepening protocol relationships**: Continued applied research and risk management for major DeFi primitives (Compound, Uniswap, Morpho).
- **Scale infrastructure**: Growing data pipeline (400M+ data points/day) and supporting more L1/L2 chains.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Relentless focus” on quantitative optimization and rigorous research – a team of data scientists, Solidity engineers, economists, and HFT veterans from top firms and universities.
- **Remote & Office**: Fully remote-friendly with hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Competitive salary, full benefits, and gym membership coverage. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/)
- **Note on hiring**: Gauntlet uses AI tools to assist in resume screening but emphasizes human oversight in final decisions.

## Sources
1. [gauntlet.network/about](https://gauntlet.network/about/) – Founders, history, background
2. [gauntlet.network/careers](https://gauntlet.network/careers/) – Culture, benefits, remote policy
3. [jobs.lever.co/gauntlet](https://jobs.lever.co/gauntlet) – Current openings, AI hiring disclosure
4. [gauntlet.xyz/about](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/about) – Detailed metrics, partners, research papers
5. [gauntlet.xyz](https://www.gauntlet.xyz/) – Corporate homepage, Series C announcement, vault data

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