Trader, Liquid Discretionary

About Nascent…

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 50+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.

The Opportunity

As a Trader on our Liquid Strategies team, you’ll be responsible for managing the day-to-day of our liquid portfolio, from identifying compelling trading opportunities to collaborating and building new proprietary trading technologies and tools. You’ll have the opportunity to identify, vet, and execute a wide variety of trading and yield farming strategies to maximize return on liquid assets. You will be responsible for deploying into both directional and delta neutral strategies, and also contribute to ongoing discussions about appropriate levels of allocation in each area.

This is an opportunity to make a direct impact on the bottom line of a crypto-native multi-strategy firm with a strong VC presence and engineering and incubation arm. This may be the right opportunity for you if you’re a driven, ambitious, highly trustworthy, math-inclined human with the desire to experiment and build in the crypto/DeFi space. This position will be fully remote work, with the opportunity for co-working and colocation as necessary.

This is a remote position located outside of Canada and the USA. Eligibility for this position is restricted to candidates who hold passports outside of these regions.

Responsibilities

• Conducting research to stay informed about the crypto market dynamics.
• Identify and pitch compelling investment opportunities for internal review and decision making.
• Optimize execution of trade ideas with clear, crisp attention to detail.
• Research potential investments, from reviewing app documentation, to surfacing and asking critical questions to founders, discovering trends before they hit the mainstream.
• Building and modeling ideas in Excel or Dune, being a power user of DeFi Llama and other data platforms.

About You

• You are entrepreneurial and thrive in less structured environments with the freedom to drive and deliver results.
• You are as excited to execute a given task as to identify and spot new opportunities to add value.
• You are a crypto-native self-driven learner, able to quickly pick up on and execute given strategies, processes, tactics.
• You are highly trustworthy and incredibly detail-oriented.

Required Experience

• BS+ in STEM, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or Finance.
• 3-5 years of crypto or crypto-adjacent trading experience, in a personal or professional capacity.
• Mathematically inclined, numerical and quantitative analysis skills.
• Strong idea generation and investment aptitude, with the ability to articulate and troubleshoot strategies and systems.
• Experience with a scripting language, preferably Python, and working with APIs.
• Crypto-native with a strong understanding of decentralized finance (DeFi) markets, protocols, and projects.
• Previous involvement/interest in crypto.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. We’re a fully distributed team that understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Build for the long term
• Align incentives
• Be nimble
• Compete to win
• Explore, experiment, play
• Always be building
• Give and embrace real feedback

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote and distributed working environment
• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life
• Generous paid parental leave & supported return to work
• Home Office, coworking space and wellness stipend
• Retirement plan matching contributions
• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location
• Access to our internal performance coaching, technical experts and support for continuing your skill development and growth
• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.