DeFi Analyst
Research, deploy and monitor the on-chain strategies behind our Vaults product. A hands-on, high-ownership role for someone early in their career who lives and breathes DeFi.
The role
We're hiring a DeFi Analyst to join Tesseract's Asset Management team. You'll research, deploy and monitor the on-chain strategies behind our Vaults product: the discretionary, per-client mandates through which institutional capital is put to work across DeFi.
It's a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone early in their career who lives and breathes DeFi. You'll work closely with our Head of Asset Management, see your analysis translate directly into capital decisions, and grow fast in a small, senior team. Remote within European time zones.
About Tesseract
Tesseract is a regulated institutional digital-asset management company based in Helsinki, Finland. Operating since 2017 through multiple market cycles, Tesseract Investment Oy is authorized as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider under MiCA.
We run two products: Vaults, individually managed, on-chain mandates that deploy client capital to vetted DeFi venues under a segregated, discretionary per-client mandate (provided by Tesseract Investment Oy); and Lending, credit-driven yield from vetted institutional borrowers, with Tesseract managing credit, risk and reporting (provided by Tesseract Earn Oy).
Trusted by partners including BitGo, Bitstamp and 21Shares, we provide the regulated foundation, operating discipline and transparency that institutional capital underwrites against before it deploys.
What you'll do
- Research and monitor DeFi: keep a deep, current read on the ecosystem: protocols, governance, incentives, security incidents and emerging yield opportunities.
- Develop strategies: research and evaluate new strategies and write clear one-pagers (yield, risk, liquidity, TVL, incentives, recommendation); review and optimize existing ones as markets move.
- Deploy and manage positions: execute and monitor deployments across protocols; track deposits, withdrawals, leverage, collateral, borrow positions and performance; coordinate changes with custodians and operations.
- Monitor risk: watch protocol, smart-contract, liquidity, counterparty and market risk; track protocol health; build our internal risk frameworks and tooling (e.g. Blockaid).
- Report performance: track daily performance and yield; produce portfolio summaries, monthly commentary and attribution; support NAV and client reporting.
- Keep the books and records: maintain the DeFi Book and portfolio-tracking spreadsheets, shareholder registries, and the financial and deployment documentation that supports portfolio operations.
- Build tooling: automate monitoring, reporting and data collection; build internal analytics and alerting.
- Support the desk: prepare materials for investment decisions, contribute to allocation and risk discussions, keep strategy and protocol documentation sharp, and help onboard new team members.
What you'll bring
Must have
- Strong grasp of DeFi lending and money markets: LTV, health factors, liquidations, utilization rates, interest-rate models, borrow/supply APY dynamics and liquidity risk, and how utilization spikes and liquidity shortages hit leveraged yield.
- Hands-on familiarity with major protocols: Morpho, Aave, Spark, Fluid, Euler, Pendle, Ethena, Maple, Uniswap, Curve, Balancer.
- Sound portfolio and risk instincts: capital allocation, diversification and concentration, smart-contract and protocol risk assessment, yield optimization across protocols.
- Strong Excel / Google Sheets and on-chain analytics (DeBank, Dune, Etherscan, DefiLlama).
- A sharp analytical mind, high attention to detail, fast reactions to changing markets, and the drive to research and decide independently.
Nice to have
- Automation / scripting experience.
- Ability to read protocol documentation and smart-contract architecture.
Reports to
Head of Asset Management, working alongside a small, senior desk.
Why Tesseract
- Real ownership, early: a small, senior team; your work reaches live capital decisions quickly.
- The regulated frontier: work at the front of institutional DeFi, learning from an experienced desk.
- Fully remote: within European time zones.
- €40,000 a year: a clear, upfront salary for a full-time role.
How to apply
Tell us what you'd deploy first. Send your CV and a short note on a DeFi strategy you find interesting, and why, using the form below. We read every one.
Tesseract is an equal-opportunity employer.
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