North America, Europe, Asia

Auros is a leading cryptocurrency market making and high-frequency trading firm operating across all major venues and instruments. A 24/7/365 business, it possesses a world-class team of trading and engineering talent across 15 geographies globally, combining remote work and physical offices in Hong Kong and New York.

Auros is one of the largest participants in cryptocurrency markets, generating daily notional turnover in the billions of dollars. Their long-standing technological heritage combines a systematic approach with sophisticated pricing models and state-of-the-art execution capabilities, regularly iterating to ensure robust, reliable trading performance. Their partnership-based approach to external liquidity provision has rapidly established them as a go-to market maker for token projects.

We are looking for an independent advisor for the non-executive director role to our company that would be a member of the company’s board of directors. We are looking for someone who will add value by providing a broad perspective of the company’s issues and protecting the interests of shareholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensuring that the Board of Directors establishes clear objectives and delivers agreed plans
• Regularly review performance against these objectives
• Encouraging the best use of financial resources
• Supporting and challenging the leadership team to ensure that the Board of Directors conforms to the highest standards of corporate governance and makes appropriate decisions
• Challenging executive directors about the decisions that they make. This includes having the strength to bring a new perspective to discussions
• Bringing an independent perspective to the board of a company
• Scrutinising how the management team performs against organisational objectives

REQUIREMENTS

• Industry experience (although not limited to HFT/prop/HF)
• Ability to make introductions through different parts of the industry (VC, early-stage projects etc.)
• Ability to help in strategy development within a company through positive criticism, external experience, and expertise
• Ability to oversee the activity of executive partners
• Ability to make sure that the responsibilities towards stakeholders are consistently fulfilled
• Possessing good judgement, intellect, diplomacy, assertiveness
• Possessing business & Finance acumen
• Experience with talent acquisition, remote culture, risk management, and working for a global company

Nice to have:

• An understanding of crypto
• Experience with virtual board meetings
• ESG (environmental, social, and governance) expertise
• DEI expertise
• Clear understanding of digital transformation