Senior Loan Originator
The Role
The Senior Loan Originator will sit within the team that manages the backing assets of USDe. This role blends traditional financial market expertise with deep proficiency in secured lending digital asset markets.
The successful candidate will focus on originating overcollateralised stablecoin loans backed exclusively by tier one digital assets & RWAs. Reporting to the Head of Trading, you will drive outperformance by originating new & incremental business by building new relationships and expanding existing relationships.
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.
- Team
- Trading & Portfolio
- Remote status
- Fully Remote
About Ethena Labs
Ethena Labs is actively building and deploying a suite of groundbreaking digital dollar products aiming to upgrade money into the internet era:
Our flagship product, USDe, is a synthetic dollar backed by digital assets, which became the fastest-growing dollar-adjacent crypto asset in history when it scaled from zero to $15b in 18 months.
Ethena also developed USDtb, a GENIUS Act-ready payment stablecoin, in partnership with BlackRock. USDtb is now issued by Anchorage Digital Bank after becoming the first payment stablecoin issued under U.S. federal government supervision.
Ethena Whitelabel offers applications, chains, wallets or exchanges the infrastructure to launch their own dollar asset on Ethena's back-end infrastructure with USDe and/or USDtb as the core reserve assets.
Through these offerings, Ethena Labs is not just creating new financial products; we are building foundational infrastructure for a more open, efficient, and interconnected global financial system.