Ostium
Business Operations
3d ago
170000 –250000 USD / yearUSAMiddledata analysisvendor managementcontract managementfinancial operationsfundraisingstrategic planning
Manage vendor relationships, finance operations, strategic planning, and fundraising operations to support the company's trading platform mission.
Responsibilities
- You'll work directly with our COO and Strategic Initiatives lead across finance, exchange and market data vendors, fundraising, legal coordination, and institutional relationships.
Requirements
- 3+ years in investment banking, consulting, or a high-growth startup
- Strong modeling and spreadsheet skills
- Clear communicator with counsel, banks, accountants, and institutions
- Comfortable owning problems end to end without a playbook
- You use AI tools in your daily work
- You love markets. Crypto and DeFi fluency is a plus, not a requirement
Conditions
- $170,000 $250,000 base, depending on experience.
Other
- Ostium is on a simple mission: make it possible for anyone with a digital wallet to trade stocks, commodities, currencies, and crypto with full transparency. No brokers, no freezes, no hidden spreads. We’re replacing the opaque, offshore brokerage model with a transparent, permissionless trading stack built onchain. Every trade, deposit, and withdrawal is verifiable through open, auditable code. We’ve raised $27.9M+ from General Catalyst, Jump, LocalGlobe, Susquehanna (SIG), GSR, Alliance DAO, Soma Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors, and others.
- Own our vendor relationships with some of the largest TradFi exchanges in the world, and market data providers
- Run the licensing, contracts, renewals, coverage, and cost across all of them
- Take strategic questions from the founders and come back with data and a recommendation
- Run quarterly planning: set targets with leadership, track them, keep them current
- Own financial operations across entities and jurisdictions
- Craft and execute appropriate incentives to manage capital with partner entities
- Run the operational side of fundraising: data rooms, diligence requests, investor updates, closing mechanics, legal and documentation review
- Work with outside counsel on contracts, entity admin, and compliance
- Point of contact for funds, market makers, and institutional partners across verticals on diligence, docs, and onboarding