The Role:

We are seeking a Market Analyst to join the Institute of Free Technology, you will be responsible for analyzing market trends, monitoring competitors, and providing deep insights to support team decisions across the IFT portfolio. You will regularly produce data-driven strategic recommendations to help the company optimize its products and market strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide regular reports & updates to be used as recommendations for the IFT strategy and portfolio management.
• Forecast valuation of various portfolio companies with a focus on mid-term horizons
• Perform risk and probability analysis across industry & developments in order to provide actionable insights and identify opportunities.
• Keep a pulse on web3 trends and developments, and their impact on the IFT portfolio
• Run analyses related to market validation and opportunity sizing independently end-to-end.
• Facilitate effective stakeholder management by fostering communication between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring alignment and understanding.
• Conduct detailed analyses of competitors’ strategies, market performance, and technological developments, providing competitive advantage analyses and market positioning suggestions.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as a Market Analyst (or similar role), within the web3 industry
• Excellent mathematical, numerical, and statistical skills
• Demonstrable skills working with large data sets
• Strong understanding of Google Analytics and SQL
• Compelling storyteller and effective communicator, both written and verbal
• Proven success working on cross-functional teams and managing concurrent projects with multiple stakeholders
• Comfortable navigating through both complexity and ambiguity to maximize your impact

Bonus points:

• Comfortable working remotely and asynchronously.
• Experience working for an open source organization.

[Don’t worry if you don1t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Hiring process:

• Interview with our People Ops team
• Interview with Corey, Head of Insights
• Interview with Adam, Chief of Finance
• Technical Task
• Interview with Arwen, Chief of Staff

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.