Curation Team Lead

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, and market risks
• Maintain a risk framework with clear thresholds and escalation paths
• Own incident response end-to-end including detection, resolution, and post-mortems
• Define parameters for rebalancing, withdrawals, and vault lifecycle events
• Build operational runbooks and work with engineering to automate processes
• Represent curation decisions in DAO governance and manage stakeholder relationships

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Quantitative Economics, Finance, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science
• Experience in DeFi asset management (strategy, risk, or portfolio roles) OR strong TradFi background in fixed-income, credit risk, or structured products
• Deep understanding of DeFi mechanics including AMM, lending markets, and LST dynamics
• Proficiency in reading on-chain data using tools like Dune or Tenderly
• Strong analytical foundation for building models and stress-testing assumptions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for governance and community interaction
• Ownership mindset and familiarity with AI tooling for workflow efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing EVM smart contract code (Solidity, Vyper)
• Familiarity with private key management and Safe multi-signature wallets
• Understanding of crypto market microstructure and portfolio risk concepts
• Experience with on-chain monitoring frameworks like Gauntlet or Chaos Labs

About the Company

Lido Earn's non-custodial vaults deploy over $100m across on-chain yield strategies selected through an independent curation process.