Defi Assistant Portfolio Manager

Avantgarde; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading asset management team as a Defi Assistant Portfolio Manager, where you'll support the management of innovative on-chain DeFi strategies. Leverage your expertise in portfolio management, conduct thorough market analysis, and participate in a remote-first collaborative environment with exceptional growth opportunities.

Benefits

33 vacation days including public holidays

Paid parental leave

Direct mentorship from experienced professionals

Flexible work culture

Opportunities to work with industry-leading protocols

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in fund management.
• Strong understanding of decentralized finance protocols.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement daily portfolio management activities.
• Conduct bottom up analysis of DeFi collateral types.
• Contribute to and develop portfolio monitoring and risk management processes.

Skills

Analytical skills

Portfolio management

Automation

Risk savvy

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Python

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Join our asset management team as a foundational member supporting the management of our expanding range of fully on-chain DeFi strategies. This role combines traditional portfolio management excellence with cutting-edge decentralized finance expertise, managing on-chain segregated mandates, both multi-strategy & protocol specific vaults, and on-chain strategies wrapped in traditional fund structures.

As an Assistant Portfolio Manager, you'll contribute to the daily activities associated with our existing and future DeFi strategies as well as cover bottom up research across strategy universes. This role offers significant learning opportunities and growth potential for DeFi enthusiasts with experience in asset management.

The roleholder will be risk savvy, operate with intellectual honesty, be curious and approach the role with a growth mindset. Running daily portfolio activities requires the individual to be highly organised, able to plan on a daily, weekly and monthly cadence as well as having the ability to multitask.

Responsibilities

Portfolio management and operations

• Implement daily portfolio management activities across segregated mandates, vault strategies and traditional fund structures
• Take ownership of portfolio rebalancing process
• Contribute to and develop portfolio monitoring and risk management processes
• Liaise with vault protocols to enable strategy implementation
• Support performance analysis and attribution processes

Research and analysis

• Conduct bottom up analysis of DeFi collateral types, new stablecoins, novel yield bearing assets, and new protocols from a credit risk perspective
• Contribute to DeFi research tasks e.g. development of investment thesis’s on new and emerging DeFi protocols
• Over time forge relationships with other DeFi teams
• Prepare documentation for monthly Investment Committee
• Prepare quarterly regulated fund performance reporting for fund boards
• Contribute to RFP processes becoming the RFP point of contact for the sales function
• Identify automation opportunities using Python, AI tools and other technologies to improve operational efficiency
• Contribute to and maintain robust processes for risk management.

Experience

Required skills and competencies

• Passion for DeFi - enthusiasm for and solid understanding of decentralised finance protocols
• Portfolio management and fund operations - experience of fund management operations and performance attribution
• Analytical skills - strong quantitative analysis and attention to detail
• Process - ability to build efficient processes
• Automation - proficiency in python and willingness to leverage automation tools

Preferred skills and competencies

• DeFi credit risk: experience with DeFi credit risk analysis and protocol due diligence
• Stablecoin ecosystem: knowledge of stablecoin space and common designs
• Performance analysis: understanding of performance analysis and attribution experience with knowledge of Dune a plus

Personal attributes

• Risk savvy
• Analytical
• Growth mindset and openness to learn from feedback
• Operate with intellectual honesty
• Act always with a fiduciary mindset
• Highly organised

Qualifications

• You have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
• You have at least 5 years of experience in fund management.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: salary + equity participation, 33 vacation days (including public holidays), paid parental leave
• Professional Growth: Exceptional learning opportunities in cutting edge DeFi and direct mentorship from a team of experienced DeFi and TradFi professionals
• Flexible Work: Remote-first culture with collaborative team environment
• Innovation Focus: Work with industry leading protocols and pioneering digital financial architecture
• Global Impact: Shape the future of DeFi and on-chain asset management

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

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