Head of Growth bei Ostium Labs

About Ostium is the first perpetuals DEX engineered specifically for Real World Assets. We build on the massive growth in on-chain perpetuals, bringing a first-of-its-kind twist through a focus on RWAs. Ostium will enable the trading of an entirely new set of assets, previously unavailable on-chain — from gold & copper to wheat, oil, & forex pairs — to the most popular product in DeFi. How? Through trade execution at prices fed in via Chainlink’s new Functions product, a semi self-service oracle enabling low-latency feeds for long tail assets. We’re on track to be the first project to launch on Mainnet using Functions for settlement. A collective liquidity pool takes on counterparty risk during periods of open interest imbalance. We won the Pyth prize at xHack in October, were incubated by DeFi Alliance, and raised 3.5M in seed funding. Our team is led by Harvard grads with prior experience at Bridgewater, IOI, IMO, and IPhO medalists, and lead engineers for Maple Finance and 21Shares.

Benefits 2-4 annual company retreats (Europe & US), flexible hours, option for fully remote work.

Role

We're hiring a visionary Head of Growth to drive our market expansion and product adoption. You’ll work directly with the CEO to set the overall growth strategy and orchestrate major launches. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a proven track record in scaling products and partnerships, is hungry and has a creative streak to help execute unique campaigns across new distribution channels. You’ll be joining at a critical inflection point, just as we’re launching Mainnet and bootstrapping a period of exponential growth. If you’re fast, conscientious, creative, and curious – we want to chat!

Where?

Ideally NYC or London. If not, then min. 4hr overlap daily with ET and occasional travel to London or NYC + conferences.

Responsibilities

1. Growth Strategy

• Develop and execute a comprehensive growth strategy aligned with our product roadmap and market positioning.
• Live and breathe the market, burgeoning ecosystems, and new narratives – but be long-termist enough to be willing to swim against the current and bet on a broader vision that may not yet be consensus
• Have a robust understanding of competitive products and ecosystems to shape narrative positioning & evaluate new market opportunities through technical partnerships, expansion to new networks, vertical integrations

2. Partnerships:

• Outbound:
  • Aggregate a list of potential partnerships: aggregators, vault protocols, distribution partners, oracles, databases of projects, trade tracking dashboards, etc.
  • Provide context for each type of partnership: co-writing blogs, infra integration, token or points sharing/swaps, integration into someone’s front-end.
  • Prioritize potential partnerships and manage outreach: Get added to groups, scope partnerships, coordinate logistics of non-technical integration, announcement, and launch timing.
• Inbound and Maintenance:
  • Triage inbound partnership requests (e.g., ecosystem deployment requests).
  • Reprioritize existing partnerships based on value add and expand the scope for high-value partnerships.
• Events:
  • Help organize events for conferences.
  • Coordinate speaker panels.
  • Coordinate with launches and existing partnerships for event co-hosting.

3. Content:

• Articles:
  • Write periodic longer-form blogs on macro or market trends or support contractors doing so.
  • Write technical partnership announcements.
  • Produce news updates and thesis blogs in coordination with CEO.
• Strategy and Product Iteration:
  • Gather customer feedback from Twitter, Discord, and in-app feedback modules.
  • Rank feedback by importance and technical difficulty.
  • Regularly meet with the technical team to translate feedback into product priorities.
  • Assist in onboarding big traders expressing interest.
  • Scan the market and competitive products to inform narrative positioning for content.
  • Collaborate with the CEO and frontend designer to create cohesive creative content (e.g., project management of video announcements, trading competitions).

Requirements

• Strong understanding of partnership management.
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail.
• Stellar strategic thinking and market analysis.
• Track record in scaling products and partnerships.
• Ability to analyze customer feedback and work with product team advise on translation into actionable product changes.