Summary

OP Labs is looking for a Head of Finance to build and lead the financial backbone of the Optimism ecosystem.

As the finance leader at OP Labs, you’ll oversee financial strategy, forecasting, burn-rate management, and accounting, while partnering closely with the leadership team to ensure coherent, transparent, and mission-aligned financial stewardship across OP Labs and the broader ecosystem.

You’ll help define how capital is allocated, how growth is funded, and ultimately how OP Labs builds itself successfully into a sustaining business. This is a foundational role that blends strategic finance, treasury, financial operation, and organizational design, a chance to architect the financial systems for one of the most important projects in web3.

What are the role responsibilities?

1. Lead financial strategy, planning, and reporting across OP Labs.
2. Act as a key strategic advisor to the CEO and exec team, providing financial insights and guidance on business decisions.
3. Drive financial planning, treasury, financial budget, and reporting.
4. Build and oversee FP&A, accounting, and tax functions.
5. Drive budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling in collaboration with Product, Legal, and Operations.
6. Develop frameworks to evaluate ROI on grants, partnerships, and investments
7. Manage relationships with banking, custody, and audit partners.
8. Oversee financial compliance, audits, and tax reporting.
9. Partner with Legal on treasury and token-related initiatives as well as general tax compliance.
10. Mentor and grow a multidisciplinary finance team.

What skills do you bring?

1. 10+ years in finance, including leadership in FP&A, corporate finance, or strategic finance.
2. Proven experience building or scaling finance functions at a high-growth tech, fintech, or crypto organization.
3. Seasoned expert in financial modeling, planning, and reporting.
4. Comfortable working across entities and building collaborative relationships with Legal, Product, and Operations.
5. A systems thinker who can balance rigor with adaptability.

Nice-to-Haves

1. Experience in crypto financial management.
2. Familiarity with complex dual-entity or hybrid structures (Labs + Foundation setups).
3. Passionate about the future of crypto and the mission of an organization such as Optimism.

Skills

• Accounting
• Communications Skills
• Cryptocurrency
• Financial Modeling
• Leadership
• Team Collaboration