Full-Time

Senior Manager

Data Science and Analytics

Updated on 4/17/2025

Uniswap

Uniswap

51-200 employees

Decentralized platform for cryptocurrency trading

Compensation Overview

$240k - $266k/yr

+ Equity + Tokens + Benefits

Expert

New York, NY, USA

This role is ideally NYC based, but US-based remote candidates are also considered.

Category
Data Science
Data & Analytics
Required Skills
Python
Data Science
R
SQL
Machine Learning
Blockchain
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Proven experience (12+ years) in a data science or analytics role, with at least 5 years in a leadership position.
  • Strong proficiency in statistical analysis, machine learning techniques, and programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL.
  • Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed computing frameworks.
  • Deep understanding of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency markets is highly desirable.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex findings into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a track record of driving innovation and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
  • Lead and manage the data science and analytics team, providing mentorship, guidance, and professional development opportunities.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Finance to define data-driven strategies and priorities (how can data be used to drive 10x business impact?) and set the data science roadmap, optimizing for impact.
  • Drive collaboration between data science + product/eng to deliver insights that drive current product development and help to prioritize future product roadmap items.
  • Ensure high quality, timely work by the data science team that is translated in the most impactful way to stakeholders.
  • Design and execute experiments to measure the impact of new product features and initiatives.
  • Establish and maintain scalable processes for data collection, preprocessing, modeling, and analysis.
  • Communicate findings and recommendations to executive leadership and stakeholders in a clear and concise manner on regular basis that allows insights to inform actions on an ongoing basis.
  • Stay current with industry trends and advancements in data science, machine learning, AI, and blockchain technology, and apply them to enhance our products and services.
Desired Qualifications
  • Deep understanding of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency markets is highly desirable.

Uniswap is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to trade cryptocurrencies directly from their wallets on the Ethereum blockchain. It eliminates the need for a centralized intermediary, allowing individual traders, developers, and liquidity providers to engage in crypto trading. Users can swap tokens, provide liquidity to earn fees, and create decentralized applications using Uniswap's protocol. The platform generates revenue by charging a small fee on each trade, which is shared with liquidity providers to encourage their participation in liquidity pools. Uniswap also supports developers through its governance program, offering grants for projects built on its protocol. Its integration with other platforms, like Robinhood, helps to broaden its user base and enhance its services.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$196.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2018

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What believers are saying

  • Integration with Layer 2 solutions reduces transaction costs and increases speed.
  • Collaboration on a new ERC standard could streamline cross-chain transactions.
  • Acquisition of Crypto: The Game expands Uniswap into the on-chain gaming sector.

What critics are saying

  • New competitors like Glider could challenge Uniswap's market share.
  • SEC scrutiny on crypto platforms may lead to regulatory challenges for Uniswap.
  • Rapid institutional DeFi growth increases the risk of security breaches.

What makes Uniswap unique

  • Uniswap operates as a decentralized exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.
  • It uses an automated market maker model for token swaps without intermediaries.
  • Uniswap supports multiple EVM-compatible blockchains and Ethereum layer-2 networks.

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Benefits

Unlimited and encouraged time off

100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents

401(k) participation

Daily lunches at NY HQ

For remote employees: up to $2,000 USD home office setup stipend

Company News

FinancialContent
Apr 16th, 2025
Glider Secures $4M to Revolutionize Crypto Investing

Glider announced a $4 million strategic funding round led by a16z CSX, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others. The funds will expand Glider's team and enhance its platform, which simplifies crypto portfolio management by automating cross-chain investments. Glider is also joining the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator's Spring Cohort. Founded in 2024, Glider aims to democratize access to sophisticated crypto tools for all investors.

Decrypt
Apr 1st, 2025
What Is Uniswap? Beginner'S Guide To The Leading Ethereum Dex

Decrypt’s Art, Fashion, and Entertainment Hub. Discover SCENEThe decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem uses non-custodial, autonomous financial products to replace centralized middlemen in financial applications such as loans, insurance, and derivatives.Uniswap is an example of one of the core products in the DeFi ecosystem, the decentralized crypto exchange, or DEX.DEXs aim to solve many of the problems of centralized exchanges, including the risk of hacking, mismanagement, and arbitrary fees. However, decentralized exchanges have their own problems, mainly lack of liquidity—which means a lack of money sloshing around an exchange that makes trading faster and more efficient.Uniswap was designed to try and solve decentralized exchanges' liquidity problem, by allowing the exchange to swap tokens without relying on buyers and sellers creating that liquidity.Below we explore how Uniswap works—and how it became one of the leading decentralized exchanges built on Ethereum.What is Uniswap?Uniswap is an Ethereum protocol that allows users to swap tokens without a middleman.In other words, unlike most exchanges, which match buyers and sellers to determine prices and execute trades, Uniswap uses a simple math equation and pools of tokens called liquidity pools to do the same job.The DEX started on the Ethereum mainnet, but has since branched its offerings to more than a dozen EVM-compatible blockchains including Avalanche and BNB Chain, plus popular Ethereum layer-2 networks like Base, Arbitrum, and Optimism.How does Uniswap work?Uniswap differentiates itself from major centralized exchanges like Coinbase and Binance by acting as an automated liquidity protocol or automated market maker (AMM).In other words, the platform allows users to swap in and out of tokens without relying on third parties, instead using liquidity pools of tokens to make trades.For example, if you wanted to make an exchange for an altcoin called Durian Token, you could launch a new Uniswap smart contract for Durian Token and create a liquidity pool with—for example—$10 worth of Durian Token and $10 worth of ETH.With this liquidity pool created, a new user could then come and swap in either direction subject to the liquidity.Where Uniswap differs is that instead of connecting buyers and sellers to determine the price of a token, Uniswap uses a constant equation: x * y = k.In the equation, x and y represent the quantity of ETH and ERC-20 tokens available in a liquidity pool and k is a constant value. This equation uses the balance between the ETH and ERC-20 tokens—and supply and demand—to determine the price of a particular token. Whenever someone buys Durian Token with ETH, the supply of Durian Token decreases while the supply of ETH increases; as such, the price of Durian Token goes up.As a result, the price of tokens on Uniswap can only change if trades occur. Essentially, what Uniswap is doing is balancing out the value of tokens, and the swapping of them based on how much people want to buy and sell them.Uniswap V2 and V3Though Uniswap launched back in November 2018, it wasn't until a couple of years later that the protocol began to see significant traction.The release of Uniswap V2 in May 2020 brought a major upgrade, allowing for direct ERC-20 to ERC-20 token swaps, cutting Wrapped Ether (WETH) out of the equation where possible

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Aug 28th, 2024
Nft Marketplace Opensea Gets Wells Notice From Sec

Cryptocurrency marketplace OpenSea could be the target of a regulatory investigation.Devin Finzer, the company’s CEO, posted on social platform X Wednesday (Aug. 28) that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Wells notice against OpenSea.Wells notices are not formal charges or lawsuits but traditionally one of the final steps before the SEC files charges against a company. They provide a regulatory argument and give the company a chance to respond to the regulator’s allegations.In this case, Finzer wrote, the SEC is alleging that the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) sold on its marketplace count as securities.“We’re shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists,” Finzer wrote in the post. “But we’re ready to stand up and fight.”OpenSea has received a Wells notice from the SEC threatening to sue us because they believe NFTs on our platform are securities. We’re shocked the SEC would make such a sweeping move against creators and artists. But we’re ready to stand up and fight

Finsmes
Aug 23rd, 2024
Sorella Labs Raises $7.5M in Funding

Sorella Labs, a San Francisco, CA-based Crypto startup providing tools to identify MEV activities and process Ethereum blocks, raised $7.5M in funding

The Defiant
Jun 11th, 2024
Uniswap Acquires Crypto: The Game In On-Chain Gaming Play

Uniswap Labs has acquired Crypto: The Game in the company's first major on-chain gaming play.