Talent - Paradigm

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 isn’t purely about recruiting. It's more like an intelligence-gathering project that's designed to help Paradigm and our portfolio founders make better decisions. Hiring great people is one success metric for that project, but it’s far from the only one.

In this role, you’ll spend your time winning early-stage founders’ trust and building our network of talented people, with the goal of concentrating them within Paradigm’s portfolio. You’ll help founders build world-class recruiting machines; coach them on how and who to hire (and not hire); put the best people in positions to succeed; and uncover critical insights and trends about the broader crypto industry.

It’s not at all a requirement that you be a crypto-native today, but you 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, you 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 operators in crypto, and developing conviction in who’s great

• Getting into those people’s decision loops about what they want to build next

• Helping hire those people into Paradigm portfolio companies, and using the information we glean from them to help Paradigm make better decisions

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:

• Good taste in people

• Strong theory of mind: the ability to correctly judge what is happening inside someone else’s head at any given moment

• Exceptional team player

• Extreme open-mindedness

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

• Adaptability in rapidly changing circumstances

• Highly curious; fast learner