Advisor with Deep Hedge Funds Connections

Mercata; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Advisor equity grant

Job summary

Mercata is seeking a contract advisor who will advise the CEO directly: a monthly call to point out where strategy can improve, and make warm introductions to selected funds. The focus is on quality over quantity, with about five introductions per month, more at the start.

This is a non-employee role with no standard benefits, designed to leverage decades of hedge fund experience to sharpen thinking, expand the network, and generate informed alpha.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience as COO/CIO/PM inside a hedge fund

Responsibilities

• Advise the CEO directly with a monthly call on strategic direction and potential missteps.
• Make targeted introductions to funds, aiming for about five introductions per month, more early on.

Skills

COO/CIO/PM experience

Fund network

Independent advisor

Infrastructure conviction

Job description

About the job

You'd advise the CEO directly: a monthly call where your job is to tell him where he's wrong, plus make warm introductions to people at funds you think we should be talking to. Expect to make about five introductions a month, more in the first month as we get going. We care far more about talking to the right five than a bigger number of intros. A few hours a month. NOTE: this is a contract consulting role, not a part time employment role.

We believe the fundamental investing firms of the future will run on data infrastructure and workflow tools built for how they actually work. The payoff is sharper thinking, more coverage per analyst, and ultimately more alpha. We built Mercata inside a $600M long/short that has paid for it in production since April, and that fund's COO and CIO also invested in the company directly. We're looking for advisors who hold the same level of conviction about the future.

About Mercata

Mercata is a hedge fund's brain. Fundamental investing hedge funds are full of brilliant people who can't remember what they know when it counts, so we built the firm's memory: not just the records like an RMS, but the reasoning that produced them - the debates, the objections, the names the team passed on - all of it linked to the filings, news, and market data moving every day. The memo keeps the decision; Mercata keeps what produced it. Because it sits in the research flow, every question the team asks becomes part of the firm's memory, and the longer it runs, the smarter the firm becomes. Everything it says is citable back to a source. Think of it as the tireless associate who has been in every meeting, hears everything, and forgets nothing.

• 10 years of experience as a COO, CIO, or PM inside a $500M+ fundamental investing hedge fund
• A network of COOs and CIOs at established $50M-$2B funds who are likely to take your calls
• Unrestricted from working with Mercata. Independent, retired, or running your own shop.
• Genuine conviction that the fundamental investing firms of the future will run on infrastructure like this

• Equity: a meaningful advisor grant vesting monthly over two years. Exact numbers on the first call.

This is not an employment role and as such, there are no employee benefits offered.