Senior Director/Director, Corporate Deal Structuring

About the Role

This pivotal role involves building and underwriting bespoke liquidity, derivatives, and financing structures for protocols and ecosystems. You will architect complex commercial deals, bridging product, trading, and technology to scale Keyrock’s strategic underwriting for token launches and ecosystem growth.

Responsibilities

• Architect custom liquidity and derivative structures for token launches, treasury programs, and institutional mandates.
• Translate strategic client objectives into executable financial and market-making products.
• Model deal economics, sensitivities, and stress scenarios with clear risk/return accountability.
• Lead underwriting analyses, including volatility, depth, liquidity sourcing, and token supply modeling.
• Build pricing frameworks in coordination with Trading, Risk, and Quant teams.
• Evangelize new deal structures internally, educating and aligning sales and trading teams.
• Act as a bridge to control functions (Legal, Risk, Compliance) to ensure clarity and accelerate review cycles.
• Support Product and Engineering to design and launch new liquidity and derivative offerings.
• Build internal playbooks and documentation templates to standardize and scale the business.
• Serve as the senior counterpart for foundations, protocols, and large institutions seeking custom solutions.
• Advise clients on treasury optimization, yield enhancement, and risk management through financial engineering.
• Work with Product, Engineering, Trading, and Risk teams to co-create the next generation of crypto financial products.

Requirements

• 10+ years in derivatives, structured products, market making, or investment-banking-style roles within crypto, TradFi, or fintech.
• Proven ability to design and underwrite complex financial structures with asymmetric payoff and risk management.
• Deep understanding of tokenomics, market microstructure, and protocol treasury behavior.
• Strong analytical and financial-modeling background (options Greeks, VaR, pnl decomposition).
• Strategic mindset with ability to form directional market views and link them to deal architecture.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills across technical and executive stakeholders.
• Located within EU time zones (±4h).

Role Impact

You will sit at the crossroads of sales, structuring, and trading, designing and underwriting deals that shape the commercial edge of the company. This role is not about volume—it’s about depth, precision, and institutional credibility, setting the blueprint for digital-asset investment banking in the next decade.