Head of Trading

As Head of Trading at Crypto Finance Group, part of Deutsche Börse Group, you lead the trading desk of a FINMA-licensed securities firm. You manage a team of traders responsible for pricing and executing institutional client flow across digital asset spot and derivatives markets, maintaining counterparty relationships, and managing risk. You report directly to the Chief Commercial Officer and work from the Prime Tower in Zurich.

What you'll do

• Lead and manage the trading desk, including a team of traders, ensuring reliable and consistent execution of client trading activity across spot and derivatives
• Act as business owner of the trading product and service, with accountability for pricing, P&L, platform roadmap, and client experience
• Set and continuously tune the pricing and execution logic of the proprietary spot order and execution management system, covering spread, skew, automated quoting, and hedging behavior, in close collaboration with Product and Technology
• Own market risk across spot and derivatives, including inventory, hedging, limit framework, and escalation, supported by an institutional risk management platform
• Select, onboard, negotiate, and maintain counterparty relationships across liquidity providers, exchanges, and prime brokers
• Oversee operational and strategic trading account management, including cash, collateral and margin optimization across venues
• Represent the trading function toward key institutional clients, partners, and stakeholders at senior level
• Act as senior subject matter expert for Sales and Product on client conversations, pricing questions, and new product design
• Define and execute the strategic direction of the trading function, including new trading products, venues, order types, and connectivity, in alignment with overall business objectives
• Develop and mentor traders, own performance management and succession planning, and build a disciplined, collaborative trading culture
• Work closely with senior management, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Sales, and Product on both run the bank and change the bank initiatives, ensuring proper market conduct at all times
• Maintain strong market knowledge across derivatives and digital asset markets to support informed decision making and to position the team for new opportunities

What you bring

• Proven track record leading a trading desk or holding a senior desk seat with direct people responsibility within a regulated financial institution
• Proven experience in electronic trading and OTC flow trading within regulated financial markets
• Hands-on experience configuring an order or execution management system, including pricing and execution parameters, rather than operating one purely as a user
• Derivatives fluency across greeks, margin, basis, and funding, with the ability to discuss these with quantitative colleagues and translate them for clients
• Credibility with institutional clients at decision maker level, with a demonstrated ability to win and retain relationships
• Ability to meet FINMA fit and proper standards, including a clean regulatory and background record
• Full professional proficiency in English, spoken and written
• Willingness to relocate to Switzerland and to work from the Zurich office

Nice to have

• OTC derivatives trading experience across FX, digital assets or related products
• Deep knowledge of digital asset market structure, including perpetuals, funding, basis, centralized and decentralized venues and stablecoin settlement
• Options market making, structuring, or volatility trading experience
• Experience taking a trading desk from an entrepreneurial setup to an institutional operating standard
• Prior full P&L ownership of a trading product or service
• Additional languages beyond English

What we offer

• A modern and central workplace in Zurich with top-tier infrastructure
• Opportunity to travel and attend leading events
• Room for learning and professional growth with meaningful responsibility
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial culture with flat hierarchies
• Regular company-wide meetings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and team events

About Crypto Finance Group

Crypto Finance Group, part of Deutsche Börse Group, provides professional digital asset solutions to institutional clients. Crypto Finance AG is regulated by FINMA in Switzerland and offers trading, custody, and wallet services; Crypto Finance (Deutschland) GmbH is regulated by BaFin in Germany. In January 2025, Crypto Finance secured a MiCAR license as one of the first providers in the EU, and Crypto Finance AG is a SIX-approved crypto custodian for ETP issuers.