Head of Trade Manager

Lead the company's digital asset trading business by setting strategy, overseeing spot and derivatives operations, managing liquidity and risk, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing trading systems, and building a high-performing trading team.

Responsibilities

• Formulate long-term and short-term trading strategies, including market positioning, product layout, liquidity, and pricing.
• Develop trading business plans and OKRs and supervise implementation.
• Monitor digital asset markets, policy changes, and competitors to adjust strategy and drive growth.
• Lead development of new trading products and services.
• Oversee order matching, trade execution, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Manage liquidity and coordinate with liquidity providers.
• Establish trading operations processes and standards.
• Coordinate with technical teams to optimize trading systems.
• Establish risk management systems, indicators, and thresholds.
• Lead trading risk assessments and reviews.
• Ensure compliance with global regulatory frameworks including FATF and MiCA.
• Build, manage, and develop the trading team.
• Manage team assignments, training, professional growth, and performance.
• Coordinate with compliance, risk, technical, product, operations, marketing, and regulatory stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of digital asset or financial trading experience.
• 5+ years of senior trading team management experience.
• Experience with compliant digital currency exchanges or fintech companies preferred.
• Deep understanding of digital asset markets, liquidity management, and trading systems.
• Expertise in trading strategies, market analysis, and liquidity management.
• Familiarity with order matching, trade settlement, and trading operations systems.
• Experience establishing and optimizing trading risk control systems.
• Familiarity with FATF, MiCA, and related regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency with trading analysis tools and data analysis methods.
• Excellent leadership, strategic thinking, decision-making, and resource integration skills.
• Strong market sensitivity and analytical thinking.
• Excellent oral and written Chinese and English communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree or above in Finance, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• CFA, FRM, or Series 7 certification preferred.

Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration opportunities.
• Career advancement in a fast-growing organization expanding beyond APAC.
• Culture that welcomes data-backed ideas and innovation.