Risk Analyst at Morpho Labs

🦋 About Morpho Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million in funding from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to support its mission of revolutionizing lending with an open, efficient, and resilient platform. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $3 billion in assets supplied on the protocol. In just 6 months, our new permissionless protocol, Morpho Blue, grew from 0 to $2 billion, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone - not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

💼 Who we are looking for We are seeking a Risk Analyst who will own various risk topics (market arbitrage, risk analysis, vault performance assessments, etc.) and own the reward distribution strategy.

🛠 Mission & Responsibilities

• Support Morpho integrators and their performance. Give strategic guidance to optimize for their long-term sustainability by conducting in-depth market studies.
• Develop and provide tools with the help of the integration team to optimize market efficiency.
• Help scale the deployment of new markets and vaults.
• Own the development of risk tooling for risk curators.
• Provide guidance and support to risk-related projects within Morpho Labs.
• Own the MORPHO rewards distribution strategies.
• Track the MORPHO tokens across different venues and types of holders.

Job requirements

🧙 Must-have Experience & Skills

Risk & Finance

• Risk Expertise: Proficient in risk and quantitative analysis, including mathematical and statistical modeling (4-5 years of experience)
• Market Understanding: Strong knowledge of market operations, price discovery, and liquidity.
• Game Theory: Ability to conceptualize and model users’ behavior

DeFi

• Tokenomics: Experience in launching tokens, token distribution, and incentive mechanisms.
• DeFi Understanding: In-depth knowledge of DeFi.
• Analytics Tools: Familiar with blockchain explorers and DeFi analytics platforms like Dune Analytics.

Technical Skills

• System Modeling: Ability to autonomously model systems using Python and perform data analysis.
• Back Testing: Experience in conducting back-testing.
• Proficient in Git.
• Proficient in Python.
• SQL/Dune Analytics.

Key competencies

• Proven ability to conduct impactful research.
• Relentless focus on continuous learning, with an ability to quickly comprehend complex systems, such as Morpho IRM.
• Clear communication, capable of translating complex analysis into simple documents to help decision-making.

Personal Qualities

• Ownership & Proactivity
• Humility & Low Ego
• Financial Interest
• Autonomy

🤝 There is a good match if

• You have a genuine passion for coding and learning, you constantly seek to learn new ideas and technologies.
• You are mission-driven and excited about Morpho's purpose to make finance a common good.
• You are a humble team player, willing to embrace ideas from others if they are better for the project.

🎁 What we offer You will join one premier and fastest-growing DeFi protocols. We are an ambitious team, shipping fast with an entrepreneurial mindset. We offer:

• Ownership and autonomy over your work, allowing you to grow and develop your skills.
• The chance to contribute to a top decentralized lending protocol, recently securing $50M in funding.
• A flexible work environment, with options to work remotely (US Eastern & Europe time zone) or from our new office in Paris (75001) and associated co-working spots around the world.
• An attractive compensation package, including MORPHO tokens 🦋👀.
• Engaging team events, such as offsites, boot camps, and after-work activities, even for remote team members.
• A stimulating environment with some of the best researchers and engineers in Crypto/DeFi, featuring internal knowledge-sharing through our weekly “DeFi School” sessions.