AI Lead

Department: Platform Team

Location: New York City (SoHo)

Compensation: $150K – $250K

Employment Type: FullTime

Variant is a first-check venture firm dedicated to backing true value-creating projects in crypto. We were early investors in Uniswap, Morpho, World, Phantom, Farcaster, and more.

At Variant, we’re a small, focused team deeply embedded in the day-to-day operations of the projects we back. From strategy and product decisions to tokenomics and incentive design, we work side-by-side with founders as thought partners, helping them navigate the high-stakes early days of building something net-new.

Role Overview

We’re hiring for the role of AI Lead to support Variant’s investment and internal operations functions. You’ll be the engineer and product manager for internal firm AI and data products. One can think of it as an “AI lead.”

Success in this role looks like someone who can build tooling across many dimensions, and that would level up the entire team (investment team, ops, marketing, etc). The role will involve proactively coming up with, building, and integrating new AI tooling / products for firm use. It will also entail ensuring that AI tooling is being used accurately across critical workflows.

We expect this person is already excited by and experimenting with the latest AI tools in their free time.

Key Qualities

• Product skillset; demonstrated ability to build products that make it easy for third parties to manage / automate workflows and analyze data

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; must be able to explain and demonstrate how to use the internal tooling

• High velocity of iteration; builds products in a timely manner and proactively seeks user feedback

• Agency & creativity; takes initiative to build new products, pro-actively identifies areas across all firm functions that could be enhanced with data and/or automation

• Strong culture fit; optimist, low-ego, no-task-to-small mentality

• (nice-to-have) Crypto-native; understands and can analyst onchain data, actively uses crypto products

• (nice-to-have) Experience at a company / startup that is AI-native and have experience working with the frontier of AI tooling

Variant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.