Head of Quant Strategy - Crypto Funding Arbitrage
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Posted: 07/10/2026
- Competitive
- Dubai - Office
- Permanent
Axiom is hiring a Head of Quant Strategy to build and lead an institutional-grade crypto funding arbitrage programme from the ground up.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who has successfully run funding arbitrage and delta-neutral strategies.
You’ll own the strategy end-to-end — from design and capital deployment to risk and live PnL — while working closely with senior leadership and building the quant team around you.
The Company
You’ll join an ambitious, high-growth financial technology business building an institutional-grade crypto arbitrage and cross-exchange trading platform across leading centralised and decentralised markets.
With strong engineering and data foundations already in place, the next phase is focused on scaling a sophisticated, profitable trading operation.
It’s a highly technical, commercially driven environment combining quant research, market microstructure, engineering and real capital deployment.
What You’ll Own
- Own and scale profitable arbitrage strategies across spot, perpetuals and funding markets.
- Decide where to deploy capital, which venues to prioritise and when to scale.
- Build robust risk controls covering leverage, drawdowns, liquidation and exposure limits.
- Optimise execution and capital efficiency across CEX and DEX venues.
- Own live PnL and strategy performance, identifying when to scale, adjust or retire strategies.
- Lead and grow the quant team, working closely with Engineering to build a world-class trading operation.
- 7+ years in quantitative or systematic trading, including 3+ years in crypto markets.
- Proven success running funding arbitrage, basis and delta-neutral strategies with real capital.
- Strong track record of profitable live trading, with clear ownership of PnL, drawdowns and strategy performance.
- Deep expertise in perpetual futures, market structure, execution costs and risk management.
- Strong Python and quantitative skills across statistics, time series, optimisation and research.
- Experience from a crypto hedge fund, market maker, prop trading or HFT environment, with the leadership skills to build and scale a high-performing quant function.
- Competitive senior-level salary with PnL-linked bonus and potential equity.
- Full ownership of strategy, capital deployment, risk and performance.
- Direct access to the CEO and CTO with real influence on key decisions.
- Build and lead your own quant team and shape the function from the ground up.
- Modern trading infrastructure already in place so you can focus on performance and scale.
- Relocation support and flexible working available for the right candidate.
Interested? Apply directly through the advert or contact Andrew confidentially at andrew@axiomrecruit.com.
Andrew Phillips
Founder
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