Head of Strategy
New York, NYFull-time$200–250K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Head of Strategy to shape and execute go-to-market strategy for Phoenix Perpetuals, working directly with the co-founders and alongside the growth team. The role owns growth across traders, market makers, integrators, and channels; deploys capital into measurable growth strategies, including marketing and incentives; and raises operational rigor throughout the GTM organization.
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Full job description
Ellipsis Labs is a profitable, venture-backed New York startup building performant DeFi protocols on high-throughput decentralized infrastructure. Our long-term mission is to build a more efficient, transparent, and fair financial system. Our flagship product, Phoenix Perpetuals, brings professional-grade perpetual futures to Solana. Phoenix has processed over $4 billion in trading volume and is growing 20% month over month, adding to the more than $300 billion our products have facilitated to date. Behind Phoenix is a lean, high-caliber team with experience at top trading firms, blockchain companies, and tech companies. Ellipsis Labs is seeking a Head of Strategy to join our team. Working directly with our co-founders and alongside our existing growth team, you'll shape and execute our go-to-market strategy. In this role, you will:
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Own growth strategy and execution for Phoenix across target user types (traders, market makers, integrators) and channels
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Deploy capital into scalable, sustainable, and measurable growth strategies, including marketing and incentives
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Raise the bar for operational rigor throughout the GTM organization
Qualifications Required
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Demonstrated rigor in written and verbal communication
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Ability and desire to pick up context in a deeply technical domain where details matter
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Strong work ethic and high agency
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Bias toward reasoning from first principles
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Hands-on experience in a go-to-market function
Preferred
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Experience in systematic trading, exchanges, and crypto
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Experience managing and measuring user acquisition and marketing budgets
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Familiarity with perpetual futures, derivatives, and on-chain trading
How this job compares
Set against the 4,100 open Strategy jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200–250K/yr
- New York median$143–210K/yr414 salary ranges
- US median$133–240K/yr3,397 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $225K, is 29% above the New York median midpoint ($175K) — in the top quarter of Strategy salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 511 open Strategy jobs in New York and 4,100 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- JPMorgan Chase38 open
- Accenture25 open
- EY25 open
- Experience
- Strategy postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 8 years (3,746 postings).
- Education
- 2,261 of the 4,100 open Strategy jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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