[Hiring] Cycles Prime Solutions Lead @Cycles

Role Description

As Solutions Lead, you help shape the product, carry the technical conversation on customer calls, stay close to firms through pilot, and run parts of deals yourself.

• Run the account from onboarding through pilot, handling integrations and unblocking issues for buyers and users.
• Support BD and partnerships, working with the exec team on strategy and carrying the technical and operational conversation on calls with heads of ops, middle office, risk, and treasury.
• Help tighten how we pitch to the ops side of these firms.
• Shape the Product, working directly with engineering and leadership on what we build next.
• Take counterparty feedback and turn it into real requirements.
• Catch issues before they go out if something we are shipping will not hold up in a live ops workflow.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years of experience, with at least a few in trade operations, middle office, or settlement ops at a crypto trading firm, OTC desk, market maker, prime broker, exchange, or TradFi institution.
• Hands-on experience with the settlement stack trading firms actually use.
• Understanding of crypto market structure across centralized venues, OTC, and on-chain settlement.
• Ability to hold your own on a call with a head of ops or a risk lead.
• High agency; ability to see what matters and take action.

Requirements

• Knowledge of post trade: settlement, reconciliation, collateral, counterparty risk, treasury.
• Experience with tools like Fireblocks, ClearLoop, BitGo Go Network, CUBIX, or similar on the crypto side.
• Experience with tri-party, prime brokerage platforms, or CCP workflows on the TradFi side.
• Familiarity with post trade and OEMS tools like Talos is a plus.

Benefits

• A unique, caring and friendly culture.
• 20 days (4 weeks) of paid vacation annually.
• Company closure from December 25th to January 1.
• Annual Lifestyle benefits (reimbursements for gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc).
• A remote first, flexible work environment.
• Annual company retreats.
• Paid parental leave.
• … and many more!

Company Description

Cycles' mission is to clear the most debt, for the most people, with the least money. We are building a neutral clearing layer that interconnects every settlement network across global financial markets. By optimizing payment and credit flows, Cycles resolves gridlock and improves capital efficiency and liquidity across the financial system.

Cycles is an independent venture backed startup originally incubated by Informal Systems. Cycles is backed by Blockchange Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, CMCC Global, Maven11, Compound VC, Primitive Ventures, Nascent and Cygni.

This role presents a rare opportunity to join a high growth startup and be a part of the founding team led by Ethan Buchman, co-founder of Cosmos.