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
📍Design and optimize the backbone of our data architecture, ensuring we can seamlessly analyze vast data streams and leverage insights in real time. Identify opportunities to streamline processes and build automated solutions, helping us focus on high-impact research and ensuring our analysis remains efficient and consistent. 📍Ensure the accuracy and reliability of our data by implementing rigorous validation processes and addressing discrepancies, which is critical for maintaining the trust of our research outputs. 📍Dive deep into the metrics and movements shaping the crypto market, leveraging Python, R, and/or SQL to deliver actionable insights that drive our research and investment strategies forward. 📍Develop and maintain data models, key metrics, and reports, enhancing data infrastructure for better analysis. 📍Work closely with other analysts to contribute to collaborative research projects with robust data analysis, enhancing Bitwise’s thought leadership and educational resources. 📍Leverage on-chain and off-chain data to build expertise, analysis, and relationships; generate insightful opinions and narratives that move the ecosystem forward; and educate and inform Bitwise clients. 📍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, data, and product strategy at one of the fastest-growing crypto asset managers in the world.
Who You Are
đź“ŤYou have 5+ years experience in research, engineering, and/or data-focused roles, including data analysis, data science, data engineering, financial modeling, or research. Previous crypto and TradFi experience is a plus.
đź“ŤYou 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).
📍You have advanced skills in Python, R, and SQL and have experience working in a production coding environment. You’re highly skilled in leveraging these languages for data manipulation, analysis, automation, and visualization, and can interact with large data sets programmatically including on-chain data and financial data.
đź“ŤYou have a knack for extracting insights from vast amounts of data, including structuring and cleaning raw data, performing exploratory data analysis, and creating models to uncover trends and patterns.
