dYdX · 1 day ago
Research Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$220K/yr - $270K/yr
4+ years expdYdX is a company focused on building state-of-the-art decentralized technologies to redefine global financial markets. The Research Lead will drive strategic insights at the intersection of market structure, protocol design, and user behavior, shaping the core protocol and ecosystem narratives during a pivotal stage of decentralization and global expansion.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyDecentralized Finance (DeFi)FinanceFinancial ServicesInternet
Responsibilities
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, 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
Help define key metrics for protocol health and trader behavior
Build tools and pipelines to support research reproducibility and insight generation
Help shape and clearly communicate dYdX’s product strategy through research-driven insights and external thought leadership
Collaborate with dYdX ecosystem partners and actively engage with the broader user community to enrich the research perspective and stay aligned with ecosystem needs
Qualification
Required
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)
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Project management, time management, and ability to multitask
Proficient with data visualization tools for generating insights and communicating findings effectively
Entrepreneurial and intellectually curious, with a passion for asking the right questions, exploring data, and developing well-reasoned hypotheses
Preferred
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
Company
dYdX
dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, & Spot trading, as well as borrow / lend pools on Ethereum.
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (2)
2023 (5)
2022 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$87MKey Investors
Paradigm
2021-06-15Series C· $65M
2021-01-26Series B· $10M
2019-06-01Angel
Leadership Team
Antonio Juliano
Founder & CEO
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Kaiser Kinbote
Head of Growth
Recent News
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