Operations Lead - Trading

The role

You will own the daily operating engine of a new US regulated exchange. This includes managing the trade lifecycle, reconciliations, margin processing, and treasury operations.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end trade flow including capture, booking, and clearing interfaces.
• Run daily trade, position, margin, fee and cash reconciliations.
• Run margin processing, margin calls, settlement, and coordinate liquidations.
• Operate deposit and withdrawal flows across fiat and stablecoin rails.
• Execute required funding movements under established controls.
• Own account opening, maintenance, statements, and tax-document workflows.
• Manage relationships with clearing houses, banks, custodians, and funding rails.
• Run SLAs, incident management, and BCP/DR.
• Write procedures, maker-checker controls, and management reporting.
• Explain and defend the operating model to regulators.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of progressively responsible futures/clearing operations experience
• Hands-on, end-to-end trade flow experience: execution, clearing, settlement and reporting
• Deep experience with position management and margin
• Working knowledge of FCM obligations, including customer funds segregation, daily segregation computations and books and records
• A clean regulatory record, with no NFA or FINRA disciplinary history
• Strong process and control design skills
• Data fluency (SQL or advanced Excel)
• Ability to partner with engineers on automation
• Autonomy and composure in a 0-to-1 environment

Nice to have

• Experience with fiat and stablecoin funding rails, or with crypto custody operations
• Experience with 24/7 markets or perpetual futures
• Risk operations exposure, such as pre-trade limits and liquidation workflows
• Experience standing up a new FCM, broker-dealer or product line
• Familiarity with back-office platforms such as FIS GMI, Rolfe & Nolan, Broadridge or ION, and with CME clearing tools
• Series 3 or equivalent registration

About the company

Sei Labs is a unicorn startup building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain in the world designed for trading. They are incubating a new US regulated exchange from zero to one.