Operations Manager

About Maple

Maple is the next evolution of DeFi protocols creating an institutional capital marketplace. Premium crypto institutions borrow from Lending Pools funded by the DeFi ecosystem transparently and efficiently.

Join our world class team, backed by some of the leading Venture Capitalists in the space including Framework Ventures, Polychain Capital, Alameda Research, One Block, Aave CEO - Stani Kulechov and Synthetix Founder - Kain Warwick.

Together we’ll embark on a mission to power the capital markets of the future - efficient, permissionless and global.

You can check out the team here!

Competitive Salary + Token Allocation | Full Time | Contract | Remote anywhere in US or Europe

The Role:

The Operations Manager role calls for a generalist who is comfortable taking an objective and executing on it with a high level of autonomy. The successful candidate will likely have 2+ years experience in Investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, management consulting or similar roles, in which they’ve built a track record of delivering complex projects and producing actionable recommendations after conducting independent research.

You’ll join our Operations Team in playing an integral role supporting the founders in making key business decisions and identifying strategic opportunities for Maple to grow. This team is closely partnered with Maples commercial teams to onboard new clients and users, as well as managing and developing relationships with existing ones. In this role you will be required to communicate persuasively with external stakeholders and coordinate with team members from each area of the business.

Responsible for:

• Responsible for coordinating with centralized exchanges.
• Managing communications and developing Standard Operating Procedures for the management of Maple pools by Delegates.
• Establishing operating relationships with investment banks, hedge funds, private equity and debt funds as potential lenders or underwriters on Maple.
• Produce and present slide decks of how Maple works to external stakeholders from buy-side investors and asset managers.
• Execute new partnerships and integrations with other DeFi protocols to firmly establish Maple as a pillar of the DeFi community.
• Develop dashboards tracking growth and KPIs
• Contribute to the development of Maple’s products and strategy by developing a deep understanding of our users’ needs and opportunities to better address them
• Performing analytical problem solving which may involve financial modelling in excel, or analysis of industry trends to deliver insights and recommendations
• Staying up to date on industry trends in the Decentralized Finance and Cryptocurrency space

Requirements:

• 3+ years of fintech, financial services, investment banking, consulting or asset management/hedge fund experience
• Strong knowledge of financial instruments
• A passion for Crypto/Blockchain/Web3 and its potential applications for the future of finance
• Experience taking qualitative or quantitative insights from research or data and turning them into actionable recommendations
• Excellent proficiency in written and verbal English communication
• Strong numeracy skills
• Good working knowledge of Excel
• Demonstrated ability to organise, plan and prioritise to deliver a complex project
• Accountable with a strong sense of ownership and who thrives under pressure
• Track record of working with team members from across a business to coordinate the execution of projects

What’s in it for you:

• Base salary paid in your choice of crypto (USDC) or local fiat currency
• MPL token allocation, giving you a stake in Maple’s long term success
• 30 days paid time off per year
• Fully remote and flexible working giving you the autonomy to live and work your way
• Optional access to shared working space at your local WeWork or equivalent
• Contract or full time employment opportunities including all local statutory benefits
• Fully transparent and collaborative team culture
• Funding for personal skills development
• Annual team offsite events
• Help define the future of Maple and be part of the vision to expand the digital economy

With the current 4 lending pools on our Ethereum product collectively having over $500m in TVL, further pools imminent and now a Solana based product set for launch, making us the first undercollateralized lending protocol both on Solana and to have a multi-chain presence, now is the time to join the most exciting project in DeFi.

If you subscribe to the values of Maple - Personal Ownership, Focused Execution, User Prioritisation, Innovative Mindset - and want to be part of a collaborative culture focused on bringing Global Finance into the future, then we want to hear from you!

We look forward to receiving your application and will be in touch after having a chance to review.

In the meantime, here are some links to more information about Maple to help you check us out:

• Website
• Docs
• GitHub
• Twitter
• Discord