Director of Pricing & Valuation

Alt, backed by leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, and others, is seeking a Director of Pricing & Valuation to own the pricing engine that sets Alt Value across millions of cards and future asset classes. This role involves building Bloomberg Fair-Value for collectibles, architecting models, production pipelines, and monitoring systems.

Responsibilities:

• Build the price engine using time-series and tree-based models.
• Harden the data layer by ingesting and reconciling auction feeds and marketplace listings.
• Ship to production using model orchestration with Airflow and real-time inference endpoints.
• Conduct quantitative R&D to test market microstructure effects.
• Expose Alt Value as a public API and deliver dashboards.
• Lead a small team of DS/MLEs.

Requirements:

• 9+ years in quantitative finance, ML engineering, or similar.
• Deep time-series and forecasting experience.
• Proven path from Jupyter to production with CI/CD and automated monitoring.
• Track record of improving MAE or PnL with models in live systems.
• Fluent in Python, SQL, and modern data tooling.
• Strong communication skills.

Alt offers:

• Founder-level impact on a green-field pricing platform.
• $200/month remote-work stipend.
• $100/month wellness stipend.
• WeWork access.
• Flexible PTO and generous parental leave.
• Premium health, dental, vision, and HSA.
• 401(k).
• Equity.