Director, Product Structuring

**About Us**

**The Structuring Team**
Structuring sits at the heart of Chainlink’s Data business, ensuring every price our network delivers is accurate, reliable, and cost-efficient. The group oversees:

- Quantitative traders & engineers who design and back-test pricing methodologies
- Risk Operations analysts who monitor and mitigate real-time data risk
- Data-provider business-development managers who source, negotiate, and manage relationships with premier market-data vendors

The Structuring team partners closely with Product Engineering, GTM, and Node Operators to deliver best-in-class data products across hundreds of on-chain markets.

**About the Role**
We are searching for an experienced **Director / Head of Structuring** to lead this cross-functional organization. You will own the production, quality, and cost structure of Chainlink’s data products
- defining strategy, shipping new methodologies, and scaling operational excellence across traditional and crypto markets. This role blends financial engineering, quantitative research, real-time risk management, and vendor negotiation with people leadership and cross-company influence.

**Your Impact**
- ** Define data-product strategy**:

- set vision, KPIs, and roadmaps for price feeds, streams, and bespoke data services including how to meet the evolving needs of users security and reliability
- ** Champion pricing research**:

- guide quants in designing, stress-testing, and deploying asset-pricing models for spot, derivatives, and long-tail crypto assets
- ** Own real-time data risk**:

- establish risk tolerances, oversee 24/7 monitoring, and ensure rapid incident response that protects users and reputation for the largest value securing oracle network in blockchain.
- ** Optimize cost structure**:

- negotiate commercial terms, redesign provider configurations, and reduce network-wide data spend while expanding coverage
- ** Scale high-performing teams**:

- recruit, coach, and develop a diverse group of quants, analysts, and BD managers; foster a culture of experimentation, accountability, and continuous improvement
- ** Drive cross-functional alignment**:

- partner with Engineering, Product, Finance, and Legal to launch new data products and embed risk-aware practices company-wide
- ** Represent Chainlink externally**:

- engage with leading exchanges, OTC desks, data vendors, and DeFi protocols to advance industry standards for on-chain data quality

**Requirements**:

- 10 + years of experience in financial engineering, quantitative research, or market-data product leadership, with at least 4 years managing multi-disciplinary teams
- Deep knowledge of market-data infrastructure, asset pricing theory, and real-time trading data for both traditional and crypto markets
- Proven track record shipping production-grade pricing or risk systems used in live trading, clearing, or DeFi
- Expert-level proficiency in Python (or similar), SQL, and statistical analysis; comfortable diving into code and model reviews when needed
- Demonstrated success negotiating commercial agreements with Tier-1 data vendors, exchanges, or liquidity providers
- Strong operational rigor
- experience running 24/7 or follow-the-sun data-risk or trading-ops programs
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, able to translate quantitative insights into clear business decisions for executives, engineers, and external partners
- Passion for blockchain, decentralized finance, and the future of verifiable computation

**Preferred Requirements**
- Experience leading teams that span quantitative research, trade-ops/risk, and business development under one roof
- Familiarity with node-operator ecosystems, oracle design patterns, or Web3 infrastructure primitives
- Prior ownership of P&L or budget for market-data procurement
- Publications or open-source contributions in pricing, risk management, or crypto-market microstructure
- Experience growing organizations through rapid scale-up phases in a remote-first environment
- All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST)._

**Commitment to Equal Opportunity