Business Operations

Ostium

$170K — $250K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in investment banking, consulting, or high-growth startup environment
  • Strong modeling and spreadsheet skills
  • Excellent communication skills with professionals like counsel, banks, and accountants
  • Ability to independently manage complex issues without predefined guidelines
  • Proficient in the use of AI tools for work
  • Interest in markets; knowledge of crypto and DeFi is a plus but not mandatory

Responsibilities

  • Manage vendor relationships with leading TradFi exchanges and market data providers
  • Oversee licensing, contracts, renewals, and cost management for vendors
  • Analyze strategic questions from leadership and provide data-backed recommendations
  • Conduct quarterly planning, setting and tracking targets with leadership
  • Oversee financial operations across various entities and jurisdictions
  • Handle operational aspects of fundraising, including data rooms and investor updates
  • Collaborate with outside counsel on contracts, compliance, and administrative tasks

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with direct access to C-suite executives
  • Exposure to a broad range of financial operations and strategic initiatives
  • Opportunities for professional growth in high-impact project areas
  • Engagement with leading institutions and major market entities
  • Dynamic and evolving role suitable for innovative thinkers
Full Job Description
About the Role.

You'll work directly with our COO and Strategic Initiatives lead across finance, exchange and market data vendors, fundraising, legal coordination, and institutional relationships.

What You'll Do.

Exchange and data vendor ops
  • 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

Analysis and planning
  • 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

Finance ops
  • Own financial operations across entities and jurisdictions
  • Craft and execute appropriate incentives to manage capital with partner entities

Fundraising and investor ops
  • Run the operational side of fundraising: data rooms, diligence requests, investor updates, closing mechanics, legal and documentation review

Legal, entity, and institutional ops
  • 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
Who You Are.
  • 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
Compensation.

$170,000 $250,000 base, depending on experience.

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