Assistant Head of Strategic Research, Hedge Fund

**About Us / Why Join?**

We are a discretionary, event-driven proprietary trading firm and hedge fund specialized in the digital asset space. We have performed extraordinarily well since inception 1.5 years ago**:9 figure AUM with 1,200%+ return vs 87.5% for BTC and Sharpe of 3.5+ vs BTC at 1.0.**

Part of our out-performance comes from our Head of Strategic Investments. They run a strategic research and investment department that:

- Makes venture investments in (illiquid) tokens; these have performed very well for us
- Provides strategic advisory services; this has also generated significant PnL
- Build relationships across the ecosystem; this has greatly facilitated our discretionary trading

We are seeking an assistant to our Head of Strategic Investments to:

- On a strategic level, complement their strengths and weaknesses by being an extremely organized operator who drives **prioritization, organization, and writing** on the Strategic team.
- On a daily tactical level, provide bread-and-butter research, brainstorming, and advisory to cryptocurrency projects.

This is an opportunity to:

- Learn from one of the best connected operators in the cryptocurrency venture and advisory space.
- Be compensated very well, as our profitability per researcher is very high. Think: retirement money after 5 years.
- Get in on the ground floor of one of the strongest hedge funds in a nascent asset class that will balloon in the future.

**Our Requirements**

We've divided up our requirements into a **strategic level** where you will be driving change and a **tactical level** which is already on-going tasks that simply need more manpower.

**Strategic Level**

Our Head of Strategic Investments is extremely strong at brainstorming and idea generation, deal structuring, and networking / dealflow.

They would like you to take the lead in the following areas to bring the team to the next level:

- Creating a framework to **prioritize and rank the many projects that ask us to invest in them**.
- Right now, it is an overwhelming number, and the lack of a framework causes great inbounds to sometimes fall through the cracks.
- The best deals are often time-sensitive. Remind the team what is important each day and week.
- Help the team go from being reactive to proactive so we don't suffer from adverse selection. Many of the best projects may not reach out to us.
- Taking all inbounds and first calls, especially on the market making and VC side.
- Dealing with all nitty gritty post-management part of advisory.
- Come up with additional ideas to save our Head time and prioritize the most promising projects.
- Be in charge of **writing and communicating** our plans to the rest of the team.
- Take our team's vision, fill out the details, and communicate it to the organization what we need to succeed.
- We often have many synergies with our discretionary and on-chain research counter-parts and need to make sure we're sharing our plans, needs, and discoveries.

In summary, most of the requirements on the strategic level have to do with soft-skills (organization, detail-orientation, writing/communication), and your ability to complement our Head.

**Tactical Level**

Our Head of Strategic Investments is extremely strong in the perp DEX and stablecoin space. We envisage eventually expanding beyond these areas (e.g. ZK, NFT, Web3 Gaming, infrastructure-related outside exchange and trading space), but in the initial stage of this team, we want to **first focus on dominating the perp DEX and stablecoin space**.
- Somebody who knows (or can quickly learn) all the perp DEX and stablecoin projects out there and what they're doing.
- Domain knowledge and awareness of all these projects. What they've done in terms of catalysts, major breakthroughs. What has been successful in the past.
- To be able to guide these projects and provide high quality feedback on what they should do. Design, implementation, feedback.
- For example: you're generally aware of what's going on with all the other DEX's in terms of key innovations. Often you can give good ideas borrowed from other projects.
- You need to be very senior on crypto fundamental (valuation) research techniques, we expect to not need to train you.
- Senior enough to have conviction & opinions on valuation and investment decisions driven by your research. You likely have a private network to identify what might be the next meta.
- Examples of "fundamental research" that backs investment theses: emission schedules, coin economics, team, partnerships, technical innovation.
- A technical background will also help complement our existing skillset.
- Required:

- The level we're looking for is a crypto-native person who is familiar with all major technical terminology and meaning in crypto. For example, a good gauge of this is able to read and understand audit reports and all terms in the report without looking them up.
- Bonus, but NOT required:

- Be able to evaluate smart contract code and fin