Research Lead

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic insights at the intersection of market structure, protocol and mechanism design, and user behavior.
• Conduct cutting edge research into market structure, protocol design and mechanics, and incentive design, including:
• Internal-facing research to help the business understand user behavior, product performance, and growth opportunities.
• External-facing projects to contribute to the global conversation on protocol design, trading, and DeFi evolution.
• Develop educational content to help our audience become more sophisticated traders and product users.
• Collaborate with Engineering team and other parts of the business and communicate research findings clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborate with the Growth team to identify and define key audience segments and leverage data-driven insights to inform growth strategies and guide product decisions.
• Take strong initiative in leading deep and exploratory research on open-ended questions that the team has around core product features and protocol development.
• Own and continuously enhance data infrastructure by optimizing systems, evaluating new tools, and promoting data best practices across the organization.
• Define key metrics for protocol health and trader behavior.
• Build tools and pipelines to support research reproducibility and insight generation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in quantitative fields (Math, Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, Economics) or a related field.
• 4+ years working experience in a technical role (Developer, Analyst, Quant, Data Scientist).
• 2+ years of experience working with blockchain or order book data (e.g. experience indexing blocks, building dashboards in Dune or similar, working with market data from crypto exchanges).

Nice to Haves

• Experience in or knowledge of trading (especially HFT), market structure, and derivatives.
• Knowledge of and passion for everything in DeFi (especially dYdX!) and web3 with a track record.
• Ideally have an existing personal research/content brand.
• Experience with our technologies: SQL / Python / Pandas / xarray / Mode / Amplitude / BigQuery.