Avantgarde is a Alternative Asset Management firm, providing institutional investors, fund managers and DAOs access to crypto investment opportunities. Avantgarde offers exposure to a range of unique digital asset strategies that deliver strong returns whilst adhering to our key values which include boundless thinking, authenticity and innovation.
Avantgarde’s licensed investment funds and DAO treasury mandates are managed on blockchain technology which yield significant benefits to investors such as efficiency and transparency.
This digital first approach combined with a uniquely experienced investment team gives us a competitive edge and reinforces our position as a trusted partner in the industry.
As a team, we're passionate about DeFi’s potential to automate cumbersome operational and administrative processes in asset management. We are a highly energetic, hard working and enthusiastic team proud to be working on Enzyme, one of the earliest DeFi protocols.
Responsibilities
Our go to market strategy includes engaging in DAO governance to promote Avantgarde’s expertise and credibility and to expand our profile across the DeFi community.
This role is pivotal to that strategy and we’re looking for someone who can lead Avantgarde’s DAO governance engagement efforts, including:
- Monitoring all major DAO governance forums for opportunities to contribute
- Contributing to the DAO forums and representing AGF as a delegate where appropriate
- Attending delegate meetings & calls, asking questions and showing proactiveness
- Identifying key governance actors and building internal profiles for each
- Contact, engage with an lobby DAO participants, tokenholders and service providers.
- Networking and building strong relationships within the DAO community
- Providing periodic updates to the wider team on major DAO developments, including new proposals and active votes
- Conduct competitive analysis to identify new revenue opportunities in advisory or treasury management and advance the sales process with existing opportunities.
- Handle existing DAO and DeFi project relationships, to grow revenues and expand the firm’s market share.
- Continuously report progress using our CRM to keep sales activity, pipeline, and success metrics up to date.
- Build use cases for Avantgarde (and Enzyme) with an understanding of how clients use and implement our strategies.
- Collaborate with internal resources to deliver the best of Avantgarde Finance to our clients.
Requirements
- You can demonstrate strong knowledge of crypto and DeFi and are excited about working in the industry
- You have a bachelor’s degree or higher.
- You have at least 2-3 years of experience in a similar role.
- You have excellent communication skills.
- You can demonstrate an interest or previous experience in participating in DAO governance.
- You have exceptional time management, organisational, and multitasking abilities.
- You have strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.
- Your style is like ours: high-energy, positive, caring, deliberate, self-aware, curious, and open-minded. You’re inclined to take ownership to get the best outcome but happy to transfer or share ownership with others. You’re proactive in pursuing what you want, you take pride in your ability to communicate and connect with others, and you’re always looking to improve.
- You have willingness and enthusiasm to learn new topics and be dynamic in a rapidly evolving industry.
Benefits
- Compensation: $75,000-$95,000 salary + equity + commissions (salary dependant on experience & fit)
- Paid Parental Leave
- 32 vacation days (including public holidays)
