What Is a Crypto Operations Manager / Chief of Staff?

Operations roles are the machinery that lets a fast-moving crypto company scale without breaking: finance and treasury operations, vendor and entity management, internal tooling, people operations, and the cross-functional projects a chief of staff runs for a founder. The second-largest function on the board after engineering.

Live demand right now

ChainJobs currently lists 76 live roles whose title matches this role, 7 of them posted in the last seven days, and 26 (34%) remote. By function they fall mostly into Operations 64 · BD & Sales 4 · Trading & Quant 2. Every count comes from the employer's own careers page, re-verified daily.

What it pays

Among the 13 live matching roles with an employer-published USD annual band, the median midpoint is $155k, and the middle half of bands runs $130k–$162k. The top of the current market, from the employers' own listings:

• Senior Director Business Operations at Polymarket — $350k–450k
• Senior Product Operations Manager at Rain — $185k–220k
• Revenue Operations Lead at Alchemy — $175k–220k

Who is hiring for it

What the role is actually called

The most common titles on live listings that match this role: Operations Manager 3 · Overseas Operations Manager 3 · Operations Lead 2 · Chief of Staff 2 · Client Operations Associate 2 · Operations Associate 2. Titles vary by company; the job titles reference ranks every common title on the board.

Skills and the path in

Strong generalist operators from startups, consulting or finance transfer well; the domain — treasury in stablecoins, token operations, multi-jurisdiction entities — is learnable. Exchanges and larger protocols run large structured operations teams; smaller teams hire one person to own all of it.

Open roles

• Chief of Staff to the CEO (Administrative) at Kraken — $96k–192k
• DeFi Operations Specialist at CoinDesk — $100k–145k (currency not stated, Cayman Islands listing)
• Trading Operations Lead at Gauntlet — $120k–140k
• Compliance Operations Analyst at Fin — $70k–100k
• Senior Director Business Operations at Polymarket — $350k–450k
• Revenue and Billing Operations Manager at TRM Labs — $140k–170k

Full live set: the related jobs page, or the board with the search term above. For candidates, the how to get a crypto job guide covers the process; for employers, the hiring guides cover what this market costs and how to write the listing.

Role matching is by job title (word-boundary patterns), so counts are indicative of the role, not exhaustive. Figures computed from ChainJobs' live board on 2026-10-16; salary only from employer-published bands. How we source data →