Description
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world's most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto. Anchorage Digital is a crypto platform that enables institutions to participate in digital assets through custody, staking, trading, governance, settlement, and the industry's leading security infrastructure.
As a Trader on the Trading Solutions team, you have the unique opportunity to contribute to the growth of the trading business at Anchorage Digital. You will be responsible for facilitating the hedging needs of client flows, ensuring that we provide clients with best-in-class service, while also managing our risk exposures well within the constraints of the company's risk appetite.
Responsibilities:
- Perform principal trading exposure management infrastructure and processes.
- Contribute to efforts of increasing automation, so that traders can focus on only the most complicated trades, project work, or client engagement.
- Closely follow market narratives to contribute perspectives to internal research efforts, which may be used to increase engagement with trading clients.
- Help to inform new products and capabilities within the trading business to meet our clients' overall needs.
- While on coverage, be available to immediately respond to changing exposures, client questions and requests.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience as an OTC trader in the cryptocurrency space.
- Demonstrated ability to convert institutional prospects into trading clients.
Technical Skills:
- Ability to expertly handle complex trades with a mindset of continuous optimization.
- Deep crypto market microstructure expertise with the ability to identify profitable price gaps while protecting our assets from market volatility and aggressive automated traders.
- Demonstrates expert knowledge of both electronic and voice trading, influencing technology improvements inspired by the more mature Traditional Finance market structure.
- Strong client-facing abilities, instilling confidence through excellent white-glove service.
- Traders on the desk use Python to automate manual tasks until the Engineering or Data Science teams deploy more robust solutioning.
Benefits:
- Competitive salary.
- Opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals.
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.