Curation Team Lead – Lido Earn

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About the role

  • Curation Team Lead for Lido Earn vaults overseeing strategy qualification and operational procedures. Involved in DeFi risk analysis, financial analysis, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

  • Define qualification criteria for strategies, counterparties, and protocols
  • Lead financial and reputational due diligence on new opportunities
  • Set allocation limits, concentration rules, and counterparty exposure caps
  • Identify and monitor smart contract, liquidity, counterparty, market risks across active vaults
  • Maintain a risk framework with clear thresholds and escalation paths
  • Own incident response end-to-end: detection, resolution, post-mortem
  • Define parameters for rebalancing, withdrawals, and vault lifecycle events
  • Build runbooks so operations don't depend on any single person
  • Work with engineering to automate and audit operational processes
  • Represent curation decisions in DAO governance and community forums if needed
  • Manage relationships with counterparties, protocol teams, and strategy providers

Requirements

  • Experience in a strategy, risk, or portfolio role at a DeFi protocol, crypto fund, or on-chain asset manager
  • Hands-on familiarity with yield strategy evaluation and strategy risk assessment
  • Working knowledge of DeFi risk categories: technical / smart contract risk, liquidity risk, oracle manipulation, counterparty/protocol risk
  • Comfortable reading on-chain data and using tools like Dune, Tenderly, or similar, running if needed
  • Background in fixed-income portfolio management, credit risk, structured products at a bank, asset manager, or hedge fund; a background in other asset classes (equities, commodities, FX etc) may also be considered
  • You understand how DeFi protocols actually work. You can explain AMM mechanics, lending market risk, or LST dynamics without being prompted
  • You've been building in or around DeFi on your own time: reading code, running positions, or contributing to protocols
  • Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics/Finance, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a closely related field
  • Strong analytical foundation: you build models, stress-test assumptions, and don't trust numbers you haven't verified
  • Clear, direct communication: you can write a risk brief for a governance vote and present it to a skeptical community
  • Ownership mindset: you treat problems as yours to solve, not to escalate
  • Up-to-date with the frontiers of workflow efficiency, particularly with regards to the latest AI tooling (Claude, Codex etc)
  • Experience with writing EVM smart contract code (Solidity, Vyper etc), familiarity with private key management, Safe multi-signature wallets
  • Strong understanding of (crypto) market microstructure and portfolio/risk concepts
  • Experience with on-chain monitoring or risk frameworks (Gauntlet, Chaos Labs, etc.)
  • Comfort collaborating with both technical and non-technical internal (engineering, business development, finance) as well as a variety of external stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Performance-based component based on vaults’ yield

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$190,000 - $230,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Tech skills

OracleSolidityVault

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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