Curation Team Lead – Remote Job 2026

Key Scope

Curation & Allocation

• 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

Risk Management

• 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

Operations

• 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

Governance & External Stakeholders

• Represent curation decisions in DAO governance and community forums if needed
• Manage relationships with counterparties, protocol teams, and strategy providers

What We’re Looking For

We’re open to two types of backgrounds: Either, you are already working in a similar capacity in the DeFi space or you have a strong traditional finance background in other asset classes, technical abilities and a genuine interest in the space.

Path A – DeFi Asset Management

• 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

Path B – TradFi Asset Management + DeFi Conviction

• 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

Qualifications

• 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)

Nice to Have

• 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

How You’ll Be Measured

• Risk-adjusted yield relative to agreed benchmarks
• Zero material losses attributable to curation or counterparty failures
• Time-to-deploy for new strategy allocations
• Operational reliability: no execution failures from inadequate processes or single-person dependencies
• Quality and timeliness of risk reporting and governance documentation

Key Factors

Organization: Lido Ecosystem Foundation (working closely with Lido Labs Foundation and contributing to the Lido DAO)

Compensation: USD $190,000-$230,000 base (12-month contract) + performance-based component based on vaults’ yield

Location: Globally remote