Talent

The Firm

Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on crypto and frontier technologies across the globe, with over $11 billion in assets under management. We make investments in companies and protocols at all stages, ranging from early-stage venture financing rounds to growth equity to liquid token assets.

Paradigm was co-founded in 2018 by Matt Huang (former Partner at Sequoia Capital) and Fred Ehrsam (co-founder of Coinbase). Since then we’ve been hard at work building a world-class team of brilliant mutants to investigate the world’s most beautiful technical problems. Our research-driven approach helps us build relationships with founders and entrepreneurs, but it also reflects our broader goal of growing the crypto ecosystem globally and accelerating crypto’s ability to advance the world we live in. We believe that crypto will ultimately redefine money, finance, and the internet itself, and this technological revolution will have a fundamental and long-lasting impact on the global economy.

The Role

Paradigm’s talent function is responsible for scaling the Paradigm team, ensuring that our portfolio companies build world-class hiring machines, and supplying those companies with top-1% talent.  We’re particularly focused on zero-to-one technical hiring - everything from helping a founder understand recruiting basics through hiring a handful of engineers and a first in-house recruiter.  

Given that, we’re looking to add someone who can help build small, elite technical teams.  This person will spend their time winning early-stage founders’ trust and building our network of engineering and product talent, with the goal of concentrating those people within Paradigm’s portfolio.  It’s not at all a requirement that this person be a crypto-native today - but they will need to have a tremendous appetite to learn quickly about the industry and its ongoing impact on everything from finance to politics to energy to entertainment.  In short, this person should have a burning curiosity about the future.

This role will report to Dan McCarthy, Paradigm’s talent partner.

Responsibilities:

• Building and solidifying relationships with the best engineering, product and design leaders in crypto; developing conviction in who’s great; and hiring those people into Paradigm portfolio companies

Qualifications:

• Experience building globally elite teams, ideally competing against the world’s strongest engineering and/or finance companies for talent

• A history of building deep, trusted relationships with hiring managers, ideally in the context of at least one early-stage startup

• The ability to influence complex processes without explicit authority

• Genuine curiosity about crypto's wide-ranging impact on the way governments and financial markets operate

• Evidence of grit: experience overcoming challenging personal and professional circumstances

Attributes:

• Exceptional team player

• Extreme open-mindedness

• Clear and concise communication, in both 1:1 and public settings

• Affable style for community engagement

• Empathy toward the concerns of others, both within and outside Paradigm

• Adaptability in rapidly changing circumstances

• Highly curious; fast learner