General Partner

Alliance; New York (NY); On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work with ambitious founders

High-performance team

Career accelerator opportunities

Job summary

A leading accelerator for crypto founders in NYC is seeking a General Partner to mentor startups and guide them through their journey from admission to fundraising. The ideal candidate will have founder experience, strong judgment, and the ambition to assess technical founders and markets. You will work closely with teams, help them refine their pitches, and support them through pivotal moments. This role promises significant impact in the dynamic crypto and AI sectors and requires on-site presence in NYC.

Qualifications

• Proven track record building and scaling your own company.
• Deep expertise in startups, especially in crypto and AI.
• Strong investor network is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Mentor founders in the accelerator through structured feedback.
• Prepare teams for fundraising and pitching.
• Select exceptional founders for the accelerator.

Skills

Mentoring skills

Strategic input and advice

Strong judgment

Emotional intelligence

Job description

Location: NYC (onsite only – not remote)

Compensation: $250-300k base + equity, DOE

Alliance is the leading accelerator for crypto founders. Since 2020 we’ve backed 300+ startups (Rain, Synthetix, Pendle, and many more), now collectively valued at $15B+.

We’re hiring a General Partner to mentor Alliance founder and support them through their journey, from admission to fundraising.

What you’ll do

• Provide mentorship to founders going through the accelerator: Guide teams toward product-market fit through structured feedback and strategic input. Advise and provide tactical insights across product, growth, fundraising, and more.
• Prepare teams for fundraise. Help startups get their Demo Day pitch right, introduce to investors, and work hands-on with teams until their seed rounds are closed.
• Select exceptional founders for the accelerator: Conduct admissions interviews and evaluate companies for acceptance into the accelerator. Develop conviction around founders, markets, and early signals of breakout potential.
• Serve as a trusted confidant to founders and support founders through key inflection points. These include pivots, cofounder breakups, and other high-stakes moments.
• Produce engaging content through podcasts, writing essays, and posts for social media platforms such as X and Linkedin.

What we’re looking for

• Founder experience: a proven track record building and scaling your own company. Deep understanding of the founder journey, from 0 to 1 and beyond.
• Domain expertise: deep expertise in building and scaling startups, crypto and/or AI.
• Strong judgment and ambition in assessing technical founders, markets, and ambition.
• High emotional intelligence and discretion.

Strong qualifications (nice to have)

• Investor experience: demonstrated success investing in early-stage companies.
• A strong crypto or AI investor network.

Why NOT join us

• Not willing to get hands dirty: doesn’t matter how important you were in past organizations; at Alliance we’re all builders, not managers (even though many of us were managers in past lives).
• Prioritizing work/life balance: this role demands focus, hunger, and a career-defining level of commitment. You must be locked in.
• Low agency: if you need someone else to set your priorities or keep you on track, you will fail.
• You can’t relocate to NYC. This is non-negotiable: our founders are here, and so are we.

Why join us

• Work with the most ambitious founders in crypto (and AI). Learn firsthand from hundreds of startups succeeding – or failing.
• Join a small, high-trust, high-performance team with outsized impact. We’re ex-Meta, WhatsApp, Coinbase, YC, and have collectively founded multiple venture-backed startups.
• We’re backed by S-tier investors including Initialized Capital, Founders Fund, Multicoin, and Dragonfly, along with angels such as Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO), Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI), Kevin Lin (Twitch co-founder), and Jeremy Allaire (Circle CEO), among many others.
• Career accelerator: this role sets you up, experience- and network-wise, for any high-impact path in crypto/AI – at startups, venture firms, or your own company.
• Alliance startups are reinventing industries – from media to payments – and improving the lives of everyday people. You’ll have a front-row seat as they change the world.