Chief of Staff (Decibel)

About Decibel

Decibel is a high-performance, fully on-chain trading platform built in collaboration with Aptos Labs and the Decibel Foundation. Designed to match the speed of high performance trading, Decibel offers spot, perpetuals, and yield products through a unified, self-custodial interface. The platform runs on the Aptos blockchain, leveraging its sub-20ms block times and parallel execution to support real-time settlement, cross-margining, and modular vault strategies. Decibel aims to serve as the execution layer for the Aptos global trading engine, empowering traders, developers, and institutions with scalable, composable financial infrastructure..

We’re hiring a Chief of Staff to partner directly with the founders and serve as a force-multiplier across the organization. This person will drive strategic initiatives, ensure operational alignment, manage priority workflows, and help translate founder vision into company-wide execution.

Crypto or markets experience is preferred but not required. Exceptional candidates from investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or high-growth startups are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partner to the Founders: Drive clarity around priorities, synthesize inputs, and ensure high-quality decision-making across product, trading, and GTM.
• Program & Project Leadership: Own mission-critical projects end-to-end — from scoping and planning to execution and measurement.
• Cross-functional Alignment: Facilitate communication and coordination between engineering, trading, operations, BD, and external partners.
• Operational Excellence: Build lightweight systems and processes to improve execution velocity without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Market & Competitive Insights: Help pressure-test strategy, analyze data, and produce synthesis for internal and external stakeholders.
• Special Projects: Lead or support high-leverage founder initiatives — token programs, BD partnerships, infra improvements, trading operations workflows, investor materials, etc.
• Talent Support: Partner with leadership on evaluating, coordinating, and onboarding key hires across the company.
• Communications: Draft strategic communications, including briefs, updates, presentations, and partner-facing documents.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years of experience in high-performance environments (crypto, trading, IB, PE, VC, consulting, or fast-growth technology companies).
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex, ambiguous workstreams and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical rigor: financial modeling, problem-structuring, competitive analysis, or operational modeling experience is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to simplify complexity and present with clarity.
• Proven ability to operate in fast-moving, resource-constrained environments with shifting priorities.
• High EQ, sound judgment, and the ability to build trust with technical and commercial stakeholders.
• Comfortable working across time zones with a global, distributed team.

Why Join Decibel

• Direct exposure to the founders and core decision-making processes.
• Opportunity to influence strategy, operations, and execution at a company building the future of on-chain derivatives markets.
• High ownership, high impact role with a wide surface area across trading, engineering, and GTM.
• Lean, fast-moving culture with minimal bureaucracy and meaningful autonomy.