DeFi Analyst

Summary

Join Gauntlet, a leading curator of DeFi, as a DeFi Analyst to expand our market insights and research. You will analyze and report on market events with a quantitative lens, conduct on-chain and off-chain data analysis, and create compelling narratives from data. This hybrid role combines data analysis, market research, and content creation. You will manage our DeFi analyst partner program and contribute to our marketing channels. The ideal candidate is a crypto-native researcher, DeFi trader, or content writer with a strong analytical background and experience in public speaking. This role offers the opportunity to expand your personal brand alongside Gauntlet.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in DeFi research, content, and/or data analysis
• Fluent in data/analytics tools including but not limited to: Hex, Dune, Flipside, crypto market data APIs, DeFi Llama, Token Terminal, Nansen, Arkham, Github, Gitbook
• Strong knowledge of tokenomics, smart contracts, ability to write complex SQL/Python queries and create data tables and visualizations, and common metrics (TVL, FDV, liquidity and risk metrics, etc.), protocol design
• Familiarity with both EVM and non-EVM chains and infrastructure
• You’ve worked in crypto: at a protocol, exchange, or as part of a community
• Track record of success with a portfolio of writing, data analysis, and market commentary
• You are terminally online, obsessed with CT and other crypto-native social channels
• You understand DeFi and crypto culture as a member and participant
• Extremely deep respect and knowledge of operational security best practices
• Concise, compelling storyteller

Responsibilities

• Analyze and report on market events
• Produce research around a thesis or developing market narrative/meta
• Own KPIs including earned media, engagement/reach, Gauntlet researcher community growth, and email subscriptions and engagement
• Manage our anti-KOL army/ DeFi analyst partner program to grow a network of researchers covering Gauntlet, aligning, curating, and incentivizing independent researchers to write about Gauntlet’s products and build on our research
• Field and respond to requests from the media for research, analysis, and insights
• Ideate and create quantitative visualizations, turning our models, math, and data into storytelling

Preferred Qualifications

• A true believer in the mission and crypto’s purpose in finance and beyond
• Familiar with data science methodologies
• Several moonshot ideas to drive Gauntlet forward
• Comfort speaking about market conditions and sharing your research publicly

Benefits

• Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!
• Competitive packages with the added opportunity for incentive-based compensation
• Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk
• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees
• Laptop provided
• $1,500 WFH stipend upon joining
• $100 per month reimbursement for fitness-related expenses
• Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data
• Unlimited vacation policy
• 100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks
• Fertility benefits