Head of Market Data
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Job Summary
Who We Are:
Galaxy is a global leader in digital assets and data center infrastructure delivering solutions that accelerate progress in finance and artificial intelligence. We believe that blockchain and digital asset innovation will transform how value moves through the world and were building the products and services to make that future a reality.
Our institutional digital assets platform spans trading investment banking asset management staking self-custody and tokenization technology. We also invest in and operate cutting-edge data center infrastructure to power AI and high-performance computing addressing the growing demand for scalable energy and compute in the U.S.
We work at the intersection of finance and technology helping institutions startups and developers navigate a digitally native economy. Led by CEO and Founder Michael Novogratz our team blends deep crypto expertise with institutional experience and a shared commitment to shaping the future of Web3 and AI.
Galaxy is headquartered in New York City with offices across North America Europe the Middle East and Asia.
To learn more about our businesses and products visit .
What We Value:
We are a diverse team of free thinkers and fast movers united to help investors and creators energize the global economy. We are looking for individualswhothrive in a culture of builders and overachieversandembrace high performance transparent feedback and a mission-first approach. Our culture shapes our way of working and gets us where we want to be.
- Seek Excellence.
- Be Selective To Be Effective.
- Be Highly Aligned Loosely Coupled.
- Disagree Transparently.
- Encourage Independent Decision-Making.
- Build Dream Teams.
Who You Are:
We are seeking an experiencedHead of Market Datato lead the acquisition management governance and optimization of market data for both digital and traditional assets across the firm.
This role sits at the intersection of trading technology and vendor management ensuring high-quality cost-effective and compliant data services that power trading research and risk systems.
Youll work closely with trading teams stakeholders and external partners to deliver critical initiatives that drive our business forward. If youre a natural problem-solver with a passion for hands-on technical development in a global fast-paced environment we want to hear from you.
What Youll Do:
- Market Data Strategy & Architecture
- Define and execute a unified market data strategy across centralized crypto exchanges (CEX) decentralized venues (DEX) and traditional markets
- Design scalable low-latency data architecture supporting tick-level order book and on-chain data
- Evaluate build vs. buy decisions for internal data platforms vs. external providers
- Crypto Market Data & Vendor Management
- Build relationships with crypto exchanges (e.g. Binance Coinbase Deribit OKX) data aggregators and node providers
- Assist our vendor management team with commercial negotiations licensing and exchange agreements across both crypto and traditional markets
- Data Quality Normalization & Coverage
- Ensure high-quality normalized datasets across fragmented crypto venues (symbol mapping schema standardization latency benchmarking)
- Oversee ingestion of real-time order book data trades reference data funding rates and on-chain metrics
- Establish monitoring and alerting frameworks for data integrity and completeness
- Cost Management & Optimization
- Manage and optimize the global market data budget across crypto and traditional vendors
- Identify cost-saving opportunities through vendor consolidation direct exchange connectivity and internal data solutions
- Implement usage tracking and chargeback models where appropriate
- Infrastructure & Engineering Partnership
- Partner with engineering teams to build and maintain high-performance data pipelines feed handlers and distribution systems
- Support hybrid environments (on-prem cloud) and ensure resilience redundancy and scalability
- Enable data access for research backtesting and production trading systems
- Regulatory & Compliance Oversight
- Ensure compliance with exchange licensing redistribution rules and evolving crypto regulatory frameworks
- Implement entitlement controls audit trails and governance policies across all data usage
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with trading quant research risk and portfolio management teams to deliver data solutions
- Support onboarding of new exchanges instruments (perpetuals options) and strategies
- Act as the firms subject matter expert on both crypto and cross-asset market data
- Leadership & Team Development
- Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team (engineers analysts and vendor managers)
- Establish best practices for data onboarding validation and lifecycle management
- Foster a culture of innovation automation and operational excellence
- Embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes.
- Leverage AI tools (e.g. generative AI automation platforms data copilots) to improve productivity decision-making and output quality in your day-to-day work.
What Were Looking For:
- 10 years of experience in market data management within a trading firm hedge fund or financial institution
- Deep knowledge of market data vendors exchanges and licensing models
- Strong understanding of trading workflows asset classes (equities futures options FX fixed income) and data types (real-time reference historical)
- Proven experience negotiating vendor contracts and managing large budgets
- Experience with low-latency data systems market data feeds APIs and streaming technologies
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders
Bonus Points:
- Familiarity with on-chain data blockchain nodes and crypto data providers
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Company-paid health and protective benefits for employees and their eligible dependents
- Free virtual coaching and counseling sessions
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Smart entrepreneurial and fun colleagues
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace
Apply now and join us on our mission to engineer a new economic paradigm.
Galaxy respects diversity and seeks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived age race color creed religion sex or gender (including pregnancy childbirth lactation and related medical conditions) gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status) sexual orientation marital or partnership or caregiver status ancestry national origin citizenship status disability military or veteran status protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic or other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws and ordinances.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete the application process or to participate in an interview please contact
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About Company
Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader helping institutions, startups, and individuals shape a changing economy.
