DAO Finance & Ops Strategist

karpatkey is actively seeking a full-time DAO Finance & Ops Strategist to join our Treasury Nodes team. This role involves assisting DAOs in preserving their capital through proactive, non-custodial treasury management and enhancing their financial health by leading initiatives designed to achieve long-term goals.

As a DAO Finance & Ops Strategist, your contribution will be pivotal in refining our strategic direction and bolstering our operational capabilities. You will collaborate closely with internal teams and external stakeholders to expand and improve our service offerings and develop innovative solutions tailored to our partner DAOs. Your tasks will range from drafting strategic proposals and optimising financial and DeFi strategies to fostering strong relationships with stakeholders and conducting comprehensive market analysis.

• Collaborate internally and externally to refine karpatkey’s strategy for partner DAOs, expand financial services, and develop new capabilities.
• Identify business opportunities with other DAOs and protocols, with a focus on those that karpatkey collaborates with, developing value propositions, and integration plans (e.g., pipelines) managed as strategic projects.
• Actively engage with key stakeholders, generate leads, and facilitate effective communication within forums to enhance the financial value proposition and manage client-DAO relationships, including governance delegates.
• Spearhead integration initiatives with leading DeFi protocols and actively engage with the community through various platforms such as Twitter, Discord, Telegram, and Slack.
  
  
  

• Collaborate on executing treasury actions using non-custodial infrastructure in alignment with established strategy.
• Optimise low-risk DeFi strategies such as AMMs, lending, carry trades, etc. periodically and assist in designing a robust, non-custodial asset management infrastructure.
• Develop and execute capital budgeting and allocation plans in line with predefined objectives.
• Develop and optimise incentive allocations that improve the market health and supply of DAO assets in accordance with the DAO strategy.

• Perform technical and economic risk analysis for protocols and DeFi strategies, and contribute to risk mitigation strategies.
• Fulfil responsibilities outlined in the Emergency Response Plan.
• Assess and manage the risk associated with integrations and composable DeFi strategies to ensure the security and effectiveness of operations.

• Track DAO’s Non-custodial AUM, develop and share financial reports
• Prepare custom reports for industry analysis, partner DAO circumstances, and karpatkey's performance.
• Generate ideas for new reports and lead their development to completion, ensuring that clear and actionable conclusions are presented.
  
  

• Conduct research on the DeFi ecosystem, analyse market data, and participate in research initiatives to guide DAOs in financial strategies.

• Master's Degree in Finance or related field;

• Experience in financial services, crypto, and/or blockchain technology;

• Deep understanding and curiosity of the DeFi ecosystem, specially for money markets and stablecoins, including major trends, blockchains, protocols, and players in the space and history of activity in crypto and DeFi;

• Active participant on Crypto-Twitter, Telegram/Discord protocol chat rooms, and DAO governance forums & Snapshot;

• Ability to pull and analyse on-chain data from smart contracts (via Infura nodes, Etherscan, etc.) or analytical platforms such as The Graph, Dune Analytics, Nansen, etc.;

• Web3 Coding Skill Set (Solidity/ Rust/ Python/ R/ Javascript/ SQL/ APIs) is a plus;

• An entrepreneurial mindset and ability to proactively take initiative and ownership of projects, identify problems, and formulate solutions independently;

• Strong decision-making abilities, adept at navigating trade-offs, and excellent communication skills to present alternatives with corresponding pros and cons

• Strong communication skills to introduce ideas, establish new connections, manage stakeholders, and collaborate with marketing.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with cross-functional teams;

• Native/fluent English speaker with excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Abide by our values.

• Home office;
• Flexible hours;
• PTO Benefits;
• Yearly training budget;
• Home-office equipment budget;
• Bonus award.
• Reduced working hours during the festive season