About this role
Job title: Campus Crypto Researcher (Full-Time)
About the Role Join Jump Crypto as a Campus Researcher (Full-Time) in London. You will partner with senior leaders and researchers to shape Jump Crypto’s strategic direction, balancing macro-level analysis with hands-on research, and translating insights into actionable recommendations for engineers, product teams, and partnerships.
What You'll Do
- Monitor the broader crypto landscape and identify new opportunities for Jump Crypto
- Translate industry trends into actionable architecture, product, or investment strategy
- Aggregate information from technical repositories, research reports, white papers, industry relationships, Jump Crypto’s own data, and anecdotal feedback from our team or partners to produce valuable content, recommendations, or general advice to guide our group’s strategy
- Empower the broader Jump Crypto team through great research that facilitates better deals, more robust product insights for our engineers, and more strategic partnerships for our investment team
- Make material contributions to Jump Crypto’s partners through direct contributions or advice on code, tokenomics modeling, strategy, and other areas
- Produce actionable insights on incomplete data to drive decision making on investments and product strategy
- Identify early-stage opportunities for our investments, engineering, market making, and trading operations
- Feed research insights on new trends or projects back to the group through strong writing or effective presentations
- Other duties as assigned or needed
What We're Looking For
- Passion for the crypto industry and willingness to follow its evolving landscape to help guide the group’s efforts optionally on macro-level strategy or specific project architecture
- Well versed in one, or many disciplines material to blockchain development including, but not limited to, smart contracts, cryptography, crypto-economics, networking, consensus algorithms, distributed systems, and other related technologies
- An excellent communicator across both written and verbal channels, and able to effectively convey technical concepts clearly to the appropriate audience
- Able to balance open-ended, blue-sky research with actionable results
- Excited by the prospect of working in a fast-paced and lean organization with evolving focuses and priorities
- Kind, communicative, resourceful, self-sufficient, and able to work with internal and external stakeholders
- Reliable and predictable availability
Compensation & Benefits
- Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
- Travel Medical Insurance
- Group Pension Scheme
- Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
- Paid Parental Leave
- Parking and Commuter Benefits