Hack VC is hiring a
Research Partner / Investment Partner

Summary

This job is for a crypto investment professional at Hack VC, a NYC-based firm specializing in early-stage crypto infrastructure and networks. The role involves sourcing investment opportunities, conducting market research, publishing research, diligencing investments, and supporting the portfolio post-investment.

Requirements

• Eat sleep and breathe crypto
• Prior experience with technical researching and/or sourcing deals in crypto; technical crypto experience such as engineering at a crypto startup or graduate/research experience in areas like distributed systems and cryptography; or finance backgrounds in analysis/research-heavy roles like HF / equity research
• Strong network within the crypto startup ecosystem (and can prove it to us)

Responsibilities

• Source investment opportunities in crypto startups and protocols
• Conduct deep market research & analysis in sectors like DeFi, Infrastructure, Dev Tooling, ZK-Proof Applications, Interoperability
• Publish research in your focus area or make open-source contributions
• Diligence investment opportunities, prepare memos to our investment committee, present and defend your analysis/opinions to the partnership
• Support the portfolio post-investment: strategy and go-to-market support, token and mechanism design

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with DeFi, crypto trading, and various crypto tools (show us your Debank rank / DegenScore etc)
• Programming skills
• History of writing long-form research and analysis

Benefits

• Travel with the team for crypto conferences around the world to meet founders in the wild, build relationships, organize events
• Annual team offsites
• Work directly with the partners, research team, and our Crypto Lab of quants