Crypto Operations Lead at Institute of Free Technology · Web3Vacancy
Jobs Companies Pricing Blog About Contact
For Recruiters
Live · Updated daily

Web3 Jobs & Crypto Jobs Where crypto teams hire. Where builders get found.

The #1 crypto-native job board for web3 jobs, crypto jobs & blockchain vacancies. Every role in the ecosystem — dev, design, marketing & more. Remote-first at top protocols, DAOs & companies.

500+Open Jobs
680+Companies
$180kAvg Salary
94%Remote Roles
Hiring in web3? Post a vacancy or search 5,000+ vetted crypto-native builders and reach out directly.
Analysing Your CV...
Extracting your experience, skills, and details...

Latest Crypto Job Vacancies

10 jobs found
No longer accepting applicationsThis role at Institute of Free Technology has closed. Browse live web3 jobs instead.

Crypto Operations Lead

Remote
Market range (est.) $90k–$180k
◆ 6/10 cryptoweb3Otherremote
Join Talent Pool
Get Discovered

No applications. Teams find and message you directly.

Drop your CV. web3 teams find you.
AI builds your profile in 60 seconds · PDF · drag or click
Upload CV
3-5d avg. to first message · 320+ hires made
No account needed. Teams find you and reach out directly.
5,000+ web3 builders in the pool
About this role

Join the Institute of Free Technology as a Crypto Operations Lead to build and manage an institutional-grade on-chain treasury operations function. This remote full-time role requires deep crypto expertise and operational excellence.

Description

About the role: We are building an institutional-grade on-chain treasury operations function in-house. This is a senior, autonomous hire who takes ownership of the function as it scales - driving the design and implementation of processes, tooling and team, growing into design ownership of the wallet architecture itself over time.

Responsibilities
  • Own the day-to-day operation, integrity and security of the group's on-chain treasury across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, operating fluently within a sophisticated multi-Safe + Zodiac (Roles, Delay) wallet architecture. You anticipate failure modes before they materialise and then implement structures and processes to mitigate them.
  • Own the operational response stack end-to-end - monitoring, alerting, runbooks, drills, on-call escalation, post-mortems. Existing work in this area is taken over, rationalised, productionised and extended; net-new is built where required.
  • Own incident response - define what constitutes a treasury emergency, the escalation path, and the operational mechanisms that allow the architecture to absorb incidents without heroics. Within six months, the team's escalation path of last resort runs through you, not the CFO. Personally accountable when true incidents occur, including out of hours.
  • Help manage the liquidity component of the treasury within a defined risk mandate. Execute positioning across wallets and chains based on forward-looking instructions from FP&A, and engage with counterparties on hedging, on/off-ramping and liquidity execution.
  • Own crypto and fiat payment execution and the wallet signing workflow - operating it as a structured, auditable process with commercial rationale captured at the point of decision.
  • Own crypto treasury reporting - position reconciliation, dashboard data quality, and the on-chain transaction record handed to Finance - to a standard that meets the needs of internal users (including FP&A for their forecasting work), community transparency and investor diligence.
  • Inherit and grow design ownership of the wallet architecture from the CFO over time, taking the pen on its continued evolution.
  • Own the cold-custody programme and the operational disciplines that keep the recovery path live across the Foundation's multi-year horizon - hardware key custody arrangements, fiduciary succession, periodic wake-up drills.
  • Contribute to investment planning of the liquidity treasury tranche through the Investment Committee.
  • Partner closely with the rest of the Finance team and with adjacent Security and Investment functions on shared operational and architectural concerns.
Requirements
  • Crypto-native operator. Deep, first-hand experience operating an institutional-grade crypto treasury under self-custody - built in DeFi protocol operations, in a CeFi crypto institution, in security engineering, or some combination of these. Crypto operations is your discipline, not a layer added to a TradFi treasury background.
  • Fluent with Gnosis Safe and Zodiac modules (Roles Modifier, Delay Modifier, Guards) and the operational discipline they require: permission scoping, allowlists, function-selector and parameter scoping, clear-signing, calldata verification. Able to reason about and anticipate failure modes in nested-Safe and module-based architectures.
  • Deep self-custody bias and an internalised crypto-OpSec mindset. Comfortable articulating the precise risks and rewards of self-custody vs. centralised custody. Treats exploits and key compromise as one-and-done events that must be anticipated and mitigated - owns the work of fixing the risks they identify, rather than flagging them for someone else to solve.
  • Comfortable operating treasury across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction structure - you understand how corporate structure and inter-entity boundaries constrain what can be done where, and design processes that respect those constraints.
  • Hands-on operator and builder - you design the framework and you run it. Writing runbooks, defining alert taxonomies, running drills and executing signings are yours to do. So is designing the framework they live inside.
  • Engineering rigour in what you build - documentation, runbooks, deployable infrastructure, tested recovery paths. The standard is that anything you ship can be picked up and operated by someone else without your involvement.
  • Strong bias toward automation and leveraging technology - the default response to a manual process is code or tooling, not a checklist. Crypto treasury operations at scale cannot be safely run by hand.
  • Proactive, structured, available. Comfortable with remote / async operations and with on-call expectations in true emergencies. Detail-oriented to the level a mis-typed allowlist destination demands.
Job Details
Market range (est.)$90k–$180k
LocationRemote
AI Score★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ 6/10
PostedMay 19, 2026 (54d ago)
Tags & Skills
cryptoweb3Otherremote

Similar Web3 Jobs

Browse Crypto Job Vacancies

The #1 Web3 Job Board for Crypto Jobs & Blockchain Careers

Web3Vacancy is the leading web3 job board for blockchain developers, DeFi engineers, smart contract auditors, NFT product managers, DAO operators, ZK researchers, and Web3 growth leads. We aggregate 2,400+ remote-first crypto jobs from top protocols, decentralized exchanges, layer-2 networks, AI-blockchain startups, and Web3 studios worldwide. Whether you are hiring or looking for your next blockchain job, Web3Vacancy is the go-to job board for the decentralized economy.

Find web3 jobs across every skill level and specialization. Solidity developers, Rust engineers, Move programmers, ZK circuit engineers, tokenomics designers, crypto legal counsel, Web3 community managers, and blockchain data analysts all find their next role here. New crypto job listings are added daily across Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Base, Cosmos, Sui, Aptos, and every emerging blockchain ecosystem.

Looking to start a web3 career? Explore our guides on web3 salaries, blockchain interview questions, and the top web3 companies hiring in 2026. New to blockchain? Start with our What Is Web3 guide and learn web3 development from scratch. Employers can post a web3 job or browse our web3 talent pool to hire blockchain developers directly.