About Time Seventeen
We give risk a price. We create state prices for tail events.
The world contains a large class of risks that determine where capital flows yet have no price today. Global supply chains are being reconfigured, while the geopolitical discount rates that inform consequential decisions remain difficult to quantify. Time Seventeen is building tradable synthetic indices and term structures for these risks.
Time Seventeen is infrastructure for geopolitical risk and catastrophe risk. We give risk a price. We create state prices for tail events. Our ambition is to turn fragmented judgments about individual events into continuous risk prices, then bring those prices into institutional valuation, trading, and risk-transfer workflows.
Our work connects event definitions, probabilistic forecasting, market data, index methodology, and execution infrastructure. We explore how prediction markets, actuarial models, insurance and reinsurance structures, and blockchain-based DeFi can contribute to a common language for uncertain outcomes. The challenge is to make risk legible across different horizons, exposures, and market participants, while keeping assumptions and limitations explicit.
Building this infrastructure requires more than a compelling forecast. Data must be traceable, events must have defensible resolution rules, methodologies must survive scrutiny, and products must account for liquidity, basis risk, operational resilience, and applicable legal constraints. We want institutions to be able to understand a risk price, challenge its construction, and assess how it relates to the exposure they actually hold.
We are building a focused team across research, engineering, markets, and risk. We value people who can move between deep specialist work and the practical decisions needed to build a company: identifying the important question, testing an approach, communicating the evidence, and carrying the result into a usable system.
About the role
Build the prediction-market and blockchain-based DeFi capabilities of Time Seventeen, connecting event-risk prices to usable market infrastructure.
This is a founder role for someone who can connect market design, technical systems, and company building. You will help define how event-linked instruments generate useful risk prices and how those prices can be delivered through trading, settlement, and on-chain workflows.
Your primary focus will be prediction markets, execution infrastructure, and DeFi integrations. You will share responsibility for the broader index, actuarial, insurance, and reinsurance strategy, including how market signals relate to modeled risk and real institutional exposures. The work includes hands-on product decisions, partner development, hiring, and day-to-day execution.
What you'll do
- Act as a company builder: shape strategy, recruit strong colleagues, and turn priorities into accountable execution.
- Coordinate across indices, reinsurance, prediction markets, actuarial research, insurance, and blockchain-based DeFi, understanding how decisions in one area affect the others.
- Build relationships with institutions and domain experts, validate use cases, and translate feedback into the product roadmap.
- Work with legal and risk specialists to assess product feasibility, distribution constraints, operating dependencies, and governance requirements.
- Participate in fundraising, strategic partnerships, and leadership decisions with clear evidence and explicit tradeoffs.
- Define market and instrument design, including incentives, liquidity requirements, event resolution, collateral, and settlement behavior.
- Lead the architecture and delivery of prediction-market, oracle, execution, and DeFi integrations with explicit security and trust assumptions.
- Assess how market-implied probabilities can inform synthetic indices and term structures while accounting for liquidity, manipulation, and basis risk.
What we're looking for
- Deep experience in trading infrastructure, prediction markets, blockchain engineering, DeFi, or financial market design.
- A track record of taking a technically demanding product or business from concept to real users.
- Strong understanding of market microstructure, collateral, settlement, oracle design, and operational or smart-contract risk.
- Ability to make architectural and commercial decisions together and communicate the associated tradeoffs.
- A willingness to share broad founder responsibilities across insurance, reinsurance, actuarial research, and indices.
- High ownership, sound judgment under uncertainty, and a sustained commitment to building Time Seventeen.
What success looks like
- Develop a coherent market-infrastructure roadmap connected to the index and risk-transfer strategy.
- Validate market and settlement assumptions through prototypes, research, and partner feedback.
- Build dependable systems and a strong team with clear ownership of critical risks.
Location & working arrangement
This role is based in Hong Kong. Please share your availability, current location, and any academic or scheduling requirements.
How to apply
Share your background and a concrete example of building, leading, or delivering relevant work. Describe your ownership, the key decisions, and the results. Founder candidates should also explain which part of Time Seventeen they want to build and why.
How we work
Time Seventeen is a focused, high-ownership team. We value clear thinking, direct communication, careful execution, and people who carry important work through to a result. We expect colleagues to surface inconvenient evidence, ask precise questions, and make the limits of their work explicit. Strong specialist judgment matters, as does the willingness to understand how your work affects research, markets, engineering, and risk. We prefer useful documentation and clear decisions to unnecessary process.