Head of Strategy

Posted 10 Days Ago
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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
200K-250K Annually
Expert/Leader
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Lead go-to-market strategy and execution for Phoenix Perpetuals across traders, market makers, integrators, and growth channels. The role owns scalable growth initiatives, marketing and incentive budgets, user acquisition measurement, and operational rigor across the GTM organization while working closely with the founders and growth team in a technically complex crypto and DeFi environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system.

Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies.

Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Head of Strategy to join our team. Working directly with our co-founders and alongside our existing growth team, you'll shape and execute our go-to-market strategy. In this role, you will:

  • Own growth strategy and execution for Phoenix across target user types (traders, market makers, integrators) and channels

  • Deploy capital into scalable, sustainable, and measurable growth strategies, including marketing and incentives

  • Raise the bar for operational rigor throughout the GTM organization

QualificationsRequired
  • Demonstrated rigor in written and verbal communication

  • Ability and desire to pick up context in a deeply technical domain where details matter

  • Strong work ethic and high agency

  • Bias toward reasoning from first principles

  • Hands-on experience in a go-to-market function

Preferred
  • Experience in systematic trading, exchanges, and crypto

  • Experience managing and measuring user acquisition and marketing budgets

  • Familiarity with perpetual futures, derivatives, and on-chain trading

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated rigor in written and verbal communication
  • Ability and desire to quickly understand a deeply technical domain where details matter
  • Strong work ethic and high agency
  • Bias toward reasoning from first principles
  • Hands-on experience in a go-to-market function
  • Experience in systematic trading, exchanges, and crypto
  • Experience managing and measuring user acquisition and marketing budgets
  • Familiarity with perpetual futures, derivatives, and on-chain trading
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
11 Employees

What We Do

Ellipsis Labs is a venture-backed New York based startup building differentiated products in decentralized finance. Phoenix, our flagship protocol, is the leading orderbook spot exchange on the Solana blockchain. Our commitment to creating sustainable solutions reflects our company's long-term approach and values. We take pride in our strong, in-person culture defined by our hard-working, mission-driven team.

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