About
Compound Foundation supports the development, adoption, and responsible growth of Compound - one of DeFi's original lending protocols with over $57B in loans processed - and related decentralized finance tools. We're now focused on Compound's next chapter: building Compound V4, the universal credit layer.
Responsibilities
•Advise on establishment and implementation of core policies, frameworks and governance for key financial and treasury matters.
•Advise on establishment and implementation of frameworks for executive-level sign-off, design authority, and oversight on systems, controls, reporting, and risk management.
•Ensure audit-readiness and regulatory-compliant posture without full-time operational ownership.
•Advise on establishment and implementation of multi-wallet, multi-signature, and MPC custody structures.
•Establish systems to maintain hardened treasury procedures for transfers, approvals, and incident response.
•Support the development of token-economic policies: issuance controls, vesting frameworks, incentive-spend programs, circulating-supply management, liquidity-support mechanisms, and long-term sustainability modelling.
•Support management of capital-markets activities: staking, yield strategies, diversification programmes, liquidity provisioning, and structured treasury actions.
•Support the implementation of transparent, real-time reporting standards for community-facing treasury dashboards and board-level oversight.
•Support and guide internal finance staff, outsourced accounting providers, custodians, and treasury operators.
•Advise on establishment and implementation of disaster-recovery controls for treasury access, key management, and operational continuity.
•Lead strategic decisioning on treasury structure, runway, risk, and token economics, with execution delegated to operational teams.
Requirements
•7+ years senior finance leadership (CFO, VP Finance, Head of Treasury) within regulated or audit-heavy environments.
•Proven command of IFRS/GAAP, financial reporting, audit preparation, and internal control frameworks.
•Direct experience running institutional-scale balance sheets, cash-flow planning, and treasury risk management.
•Demonstrated execution of treasury strategy in crypto-native environments: on-chain portfolio management, staking/yield, market structure, exchange operations, liquidity programmes, and custody architectures.
•Deep understanding of token economics, including issuance mechanics, emissions modelling, incentive design, token-supply governance, treasury-spend optimisation, and long-term sustainability modelling.
•Experience interacting with regulators and maintaining compliant processes in multi-jurisdictional structures (foundations, non-profits, limited companies, or DAOs with wrappers).
•Advanced literacy in on-chain analytics, treasury dashboards, and blockchain data tooling.
•Strong familiarity with smart-contract systems, multi-sig operations, MPC custody, operational-security standards, and key-management governance.
•Experience working with decentralised governance, ecosystem-grant programmes, and protocol-level financial decisioning.
•Rigid risk discipline.
•Precision in financial reporting.
•Ability to design and implement controls in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
•High-fidelity judgement across technical, legal, and economic constraints.
•Zero-defect operational execution.
Nice to have
•Experience managing treasury portfolios >USD 100m equivalent.
•Prior leadership within a major L1/L2, DeFi protocol, or crypto foundation.
•Involvement in token-economics design processes at scale.
•Familiarity with protocol-level revenue models, MEV dynamics, bridging risks, on-chain liquidity systems, and DAO/validator economics.
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
