Senior Loan Originator

What You’ll Do

• Lead the effort to originate loans with new counterparties, meeting strategic goals to scale the total loan book that positively impacts and complements the needs of the Ethena protocol.
• Serve as the primary owner for Ethena’s secured lending relationships, acting as a trusted advisor to capital allocators and institutional counterparties.
• Champion within the trading team the potential to grow the secured lending allocation of the backing assets of USDe.
• Create new & exciting secured loan structures with Ethena’s many partners, from exchanges, to custodians, to brokerages, to trading firms, that fit the risk profile of the protocol to create unique product outcomes.

What We’re Looking For

• Seasoned experience in credit risk, counterparty risk, or financial markets risk analysis.
• Secured lending background, most recently in digital assets issuing/originating loans with market makers/crypto-native trading firms, prime brokerage, securities financing, or leveraged institutional clients.
• A strong understanding of the secured lending market in the digital asset space at the institutional, CeFi, and DeFi levels.
• Proven ability to negotiate lending agreement terms and close complex deals in rapid succession with diverse counterparties.
• Strong financial and quantitative analytical skills to evaluate collateral frameworks and portfolio exposures to communicate credit views, and progress updates clearly to risk teams, investment teams, and high-net-worth stakeholders.
• Comfort working in a high-trust, flat hierarchy that values asynchronous communication and independent creativity.