Hedge Fund Analyst

Summary

Join Polychain as a Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Analyst and play a key role in accelerating global cryptocurrency adoption. You will proactively identify and implement strategic, liquid investments in blockchain protocols. This role demands a deep understanding of cryptocurrencies, distributed systems, and related infrastructure. You will be responsible for sourcing, monitoring, and realizing liquid cryptocurrency investments, screening projects, and communicating market themes to senior management. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Competitive compensation includes a $180,000 annual salary (dependent on experience) plus eligibility for a discretionary annual performance bonus.

Requirements

• Solid understanding of smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, and blockchain technologies generally
• Ability to identify unconventional trends and emerging technologies
• Experience and comfort using a variety of trading venues, onchain applications, and crypto-specific tooling
• Sharp analytical mind with a killer instinct to identify opportunities in the market
• Ability to aggregate information from a variety of sources including technical .repositories, social channels, onchain and market data, anecdotal feedback, and then draw informed conclusions from incomplete information
• Obsession with the future of blockchain technology, markets, and emergent trends
• An open minded research approach and genuine intellectual curiosity
• Understanding of statistics, quantitative analysis, and basic metrics of investment success/failure
• Demonstrated excellence investing, even if in a personal capacity

Responsibilities

• Sourcing, implementing, monitoring, and realizing liquid cryptocurrency investments
• Screening projects by reading protocol specifications and evaluating its technical and market-based merits
• Reasoning through the emerging trends in the space via quantitative and qualitative means and identifying non-obvious opportunities for deployment of capital
• Communicate timely cryptocurrency market and investment themes to senior management
• Utilize various liquidity venues for investment implementation and realization
• Analyzing on and offchain data to uncover and synthesize relevant cryptocurrency market trends

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic coding skills (e.g. Python, C++, R, SQL)
• A degree in a technical area (i.e. mathematics, engineering or computer science) and/or technical experience

Benefits

Competitive Compensation: $180,000 annual salary (dependent on experience) plus eligibility for discretionary annual performance bonus