About the company
It’s not very often that a new asset class is born. But that’s exactly what we’re witnessing today with the rise of crypto. Over just the last four years, crypto has evolved from an embryonic $50B market to a young-but-growing $1T+ market today. At Bitwise, we think it’s just getting started. In fact, we believe crypto has reached a turning point, and is headed north of $10T over the next few years. Along the way, we expect there to be risks, pitfalls, and uncertainty — much like there was during the rise of the Web, of cloud computing, and of apps. But we also expect there will be great opportunities, and millions of people wanting to participate in the potential upside. Our goal at Bitwise is to help busy investors understand and access the opportunities emerging in the cryptocurrency asset class. We want all those who so desire to be able to come along for the ride in a secure and simple manner, and to be able to benefit from the role crypto exposure can play in pursuing their investment objectives. Today is an exciting moment for Bitwise as a firm. In 2021 we crossed $1B in AUM and are growing quickly with a suite of leading crypto index funds spanning large-cap crypto assets (ticker: BITW), DeFi, NFTs, Metaverse, and more to come. We also created the index behind the world’s first crypto industry equities ETF. We focus on serving investment professionals — financial advisors, family offices, hedge funds, endowments, foundations, and others — the people entrusted to look after the capital and savings of individuals and institutions across the country. We provide education, partnership, and professionally managed investment products tailored to this group’s needs, to help them build their view, pick their strategy, and get their exposure. Currently, Bitwise is a close-knit team of 70+ professionals. Think of us as a mix of an asset manager and a tech start-up. Our backgrounds combine technology expertise with decades of experience in asset management and indexing, coming from firms including BlackRock, Wealthfront, J.P. Morgan, IndexIQ, ETF.com, Blackstone, Meta, and Google, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office. We’re backed by some of the most accomplished investors in venture capital and veterans of the financial services world. We love working together, we love what we do, and we’re excited about what’s ahead.
Job Summary
What You Will Do
📍Go deep in programmable blockchains. Be Bitwise’s boots on the ground, building relationships, joining dev calls, attending meetups and conferences, speaking on podcasts, and more. Your job is to know more about the space — and know more people in the space — than anyone. 📍Leverage your deep expertise to generate insightful opinions about how the ecosystem is developing and where the investable opportunities lie. 📍Write and publish content across a variety of relevant topics, including protocol insights, infrastructure, economic analysis, tokenomics, use cases, and the future direction of the space. 📍Contribute to Bitwise’s product strategy for both traditional financial products and products on the crypto-native/on-chain frontier. 📍You will have the opportunity to experience rapid growth and work on the highest-impact initiatives within the company. In the process, you will shape research and product strategy at one of the fastest-growing crypto asset managers in the world.
Who You Are
📍You love crypto. I mean, really love it. You want to immerse yourself in the ecosystem, network with everyone, contribute to protocol development, and understand the ecosystem inside and out. Hint: If this isn’t a dream job for you, don’t apply. 📍You can understand things deeply and can explain them in simple terms. People tell you that you’re good at this. You are comfortable both writing and speaking publicly. 📍You have published thoughts on crypto in the past. This is critical. It could be white papers, it could be tweets … but you’ve taken the time to think about the space and write about it for public consumption. 📍You are obsessed with crypto and have hands-on experience interacting with crypto protocols (e.g., through app usage, advising a crypto project, participating in a DAO, and/or doing your own deep dives into projects).
