Avantgarde is hiring a

Web3 DeFi Portfolio Manager

We are Avantgarde. The technologists, analysts and catalysts of on-chain asset management, optimized with the tools and expertise that help unlock your full potential.

Our team is known for having built, decentralized and maintained the first on-chain asset management protocol in history which adheres to DeFi principles. The protocol boasts a four year track record on main-net and is used by some of the industry’s most innovative companies and protocols.

Naturally, we are evolving to utilise our experience in both DeFi and traditional finance to build the world’s first institutional-grade DeFi products. This will help take DeFi usage from billions to trillions. To achieve this means making DeFi accessible to a range of audiences: institutional investors, family offices, hedge funds, crypto funds and HNWIs. Through a combination of boundless thinking and unprecedented rigour, we help our clients achieve radical impact – whatever the mandate.

We’re looking for an exceptional individual to join our team and take on important responsibilities in helping build out Avantgarde’s Asset Management business. Reporting to the CEO and working closely with other members of the team, this role will be a key contributor to the success of the entire firm.

DeFi is a faced paced industry and we need someone that can keep up. We're looking for someone dynamic, who thinks on their feet, takes ownership and works on their own initiative.

This is a critical role which will be central to managing and scaling a number of key operational areas as we continue to grow the business.

What you will do

• Identify, launch, and run our on-chain strategies (passive and active)
• Deep research & development of investment thesis’s on new and emerging DeFi protocols with assistance from a DeFi analyst.
• Build relationships with other DeFi teams
• Collaborate on memos detailing research and development with research analysts
• Present memos to investment committee for approval
• Develop monitoring and alerting strategy and implementation for ongoing risk management
• Document research and present to the investment committee periodically
• Establish portfolio construction criteria, risk management and risk monitoring processes for new strategies
• Collaborate across our teams to coordinate necessary product development
• Sharing knowledge across the team to help other business areas
• Manage live portfolio risk daily to ensure the portfolio operates within defined risk limits.
• Interface with executive team about what you’re seeing in markets. Provide commentary.
• Input to DAO treasury research, governance and proposals where appropriate.
• Participate in external and client facing meetings.
• Liaising with service providers around the fund needs
• Helping build out and grow the asset management business
• Assisting with setting up new funds
• Assessing, onboarding/hiring of new managers over time.
• Adhere to and further implement (or iterate) on governance for investment decisions including management of Investment Committee

• 10 years of financial experience of which 5 years as a Portfolio Manager with a demonstrable track record in that role
• Experience and comfort across different asset classes
• Strong bottom-up fundamental approach to research
• Understanding and appreciation of momentum, sentiment, technicals, and trading dynamics
• Strong Investment philosophy and process supported by rigorous analysis
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort taking risks
• A self-awareness and self-confidence to be challenged by others and comfortable “being wrong”
• Strong work ethic and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and experience in a collaborative, team-based, results-oriented environment
• Experience interfacing with clients and prospects in an institutional environment
• Willing and comfortable to learn about the digital tools native to crypto
• Demonstrated understanding of DeFi platforms and associated risks
• Experience with yield farming, crypto-token economics, staking, and digital asset lending
• Deep understanding of unique aspects of complications related to risk in the cryptocurrency industry
• Entrepreneurial spirit

Soft skills

• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
• Ability to work independently
• Strong team player
• Enthusiastic
• Proactive

Nice to have

• CFA or CAIA qualification
• General understanding of systems and technology
• Business and/or Finance related degree
• DeFi work experience

• Salary according to experience
• Equity compensation possible for entrepreneurial spirits
• Remote & flexible working
• Opportunity to meet up with the team at off-sites & other events

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