Curation Team Lead - Lido Earn at Lido DAO

<p style="min-height:1.5em">Lido Earn's non-custodial vaults deploy &gt;$100m across on-chain yield strategies selected through an independent curation process. As Curation Team Lead, you define the methodology governing this process, qualification criteria, concentration/counterparty limits, and risk monitoring across allocations. You lead financial analysis of new opportunities, document curation rationale, and own operational procedures (rebalancing, withdrawals, incident response). The role spans DeFi risk analysis, protocol operations, and stakeholder communications, requiring fluency in credit-style analysis, relationship management, and engineering coordination.</p><h2><strong>Key Scope</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Curation &amp; Allocation</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define qualification criteria for strategies, counterparties, and protocols</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lead financial and reputational due diligence on new opportunities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Set allocation limits, concentration rules, and counterparty exposure caps</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Risk Management</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify and monitor smart contract, liquidity, counterparty, market risks across active vaults</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Maintain a risk framework with clear thresholds and escalation paths</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own incident response end-to-end: detection, resolution, post-mortem</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Operations</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define parameters for rebalancing, withdrawals, and vault lifecycle events</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build runbooks so operations don't depend on any single person</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with engineering to automate and audit operational processes</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Governance &amp; External Stakeholders</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Represent curation decisions in DAO governance and community forums if needed</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage relationships with counterparties, protocol teams, and strategy providers</p></li></ul><h2><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're open to two types of backgrounds: Either, you are already working in a similar capacity in the DeFi space or you have a strong traditional finance background in other asset classes, technical abilities and a genuine interest in the space.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Path A - DeFi Asset Management</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in a strategy, risk, or portfolio role at a DeFi protocol, crypto fund, or on-chain asset manager</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5