Director of Private Credit
Company Description
Arbital (YC S26) is a social trading app that brings together memes, stocks, and perpetual futures (“perps”) into a single, interactive platform. The product is designed for market participants who want to engage with financial markets in a more social, transparent, and community-driven way. Arbital focuses on combining trading functionality with real-time social signals and cultural context, making market activity more accessible and engaging. The team shares updates and insights with the community via X at https://x.com/arbital_xyz, reflecting a strong external-facing and online-first culture. Role Description The Director of Private Credit will lead Arbital’s private credit strategy, overseeing the sourcing, evaluation, structuring, and ongoing management of private credit opportunities aligned with the platform’s growth and risk appetite. Day-to-day responsibilities include designing credit frameworks, supervising underwriting and approval processes, setting risk limits, and monitoring portfolio performance across counterparties and products. The role will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and finance teams to integrate robust credit policies into Arbital’s trading and lending workflows, while ensuring regulatory and compliance considerations are met. This is a full-time remote role, requiring proactive communication, ownership of key credit decisions, and the ability to operate effectively across time zones with a distributed team.
Qualifications
Candidates should possess strong Credit Management and Underwriting skills, including experience setting credit policies, evaluating counterparties, and structuring private credit transactions. Candidates should possess robust Analytical Skills and Finance expertise, including financial modeling, risk assessment, and familiarity with capital markets or trading platforms. Candidates should possess solid Accounting and financial reporting skills, including understanding of balance sheets, cash flows, and credit-related metrics. Experience leading or overseeing private credit portfolios, structured credit, or lending products in fintech, trading, or financial services environments. Demonstrated ability to build and improve credit processes, implement risk controls, and work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the capacity to present complex credit decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field; advanced degrees or professional certifications (e.g., CFA, CPA, FRM) are beneficial. Comfort working in an early-stage, remote, startup environment, with a high level of ownership, adaptability, and bias toward action.