Director of Market Structure, Liquidity & Exchange Operations (Market Maker

About the role

The Director of Market Structure, Liquidity & Exchange Operations will lead Autheo's efforts in developing internal expertise in token market structure, liquidity management, exchange operations, trading infrastructure, and ecosystem growth. This role will support exchange listings, validator node initiatives, token launches, and long-term market development.

Responsibilities

• Lead exchange listing initiatives across Tier-1, Tier-2, and emerging digital asset exchanges.
• Manage exchange application processes, due diligence requests, listing negotiations, and ongoing exchange relationships.
• Carefully coordinate technical, legal, operational, compliance, and liquidity requirements associated with exchange listings.
• Design and manage liquidity pools across decentralized exchanges.
• Develop token pair strategies, liquidity allocation frameworks, and pool optimization programs.
• Analyze liquidity depth, slippage, trading volumes, market efficiency, and capital utilization.
• Establish and maintain liquidity programs across Solana, Ethereum, Cosmos, EVM, and other ecosystems as appropriate.
• Develop exchange liquidity strategies supporting healthy order books and efficient price discovery.
• Coordinate with external market makers, liquidity providers, trading firms, and exchange partners.
• Maintain monitoring of trading activity, market health, spreads, volume, and liquidity metrics.
• Support treasury and liquidity allocation decisions.
• Advise leadership regarding tokenomics design, emissions schedules, vesting structures, staking incentives, validator incentives, and ecosystem growth programs.
• Model liquidity requirements, circulating supply impacts, unlock schedules, and market behavior.
• Evaluate the impact of node programs, staking programs, ecosystem incentives, and airdrops on market dynamics.
• Design and oversee token claim systems, airdrops, staking programs, vesting systems, referral programs, rewards programs, and incentive mechanisms.
• Coordinate with engineering teams on implementation of token distribution infrastructure.
• Maintain and report on distribution effectiveness and ecosystem participation.
• Build dashboards and reporting frameworks for liquidity, volume, trading activity, market depth, and token circulation.
• Monitor market trends, competitor activity, exchange behavior, and ecosystem growth metrics.
• Provide executive-level reporting and recommendations.
• Work closely with legal, compliance, and risk teams to ensure market activities are conducted within applicable legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Support market surveillance, anti-manipulation controls, and best practices.
• Coordinate with the Chief Risk Officer, General Counsel, and compliance leadership regarding market structure risks.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in capital markets, digital assets, trading, exchange operations, market making, liquidity management, tokenomics, or related disciplines.
• Direct experience managing or supporting token launches.
• Direct experience with centralized exchange listings and exchange relationship management.
• Direct experience designing or managing liquidity pools on decentralized exchanges.
• Experience working with market makers, trading firms, liquidity providers, and exchange operators.
• Experience evaluating tokenomics, emissions schedules, staking systems, and ecosystem incentives.
• Experience with token claims, airdrops, vesting systems, liquidity provisioning, and staking infrastructure.
• Experience analyzing market depth, spreads, volume, liquidity, and trading behavior.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience launching Layer-1 blockchain tokens.
• Experience with validator ecosystems, staking systems, and node economics.
• Experience working with market makers and professional trading firms.
• Experience with institutional digital asset infrastructure.
• Understanding of securities, commodities, digital asset, and financial market regulations.
• Strong quantitative, financial modeling, and analytical capabilities.
• Experience with on-chain analytics, trading analytics, and blockchain data platforms.
• Familiarity with Solana, Cosmos, Ethereum, EVM ecosystems, and modern DeFi infrastructure.