People & Performance Associate/Analyst
Nascent
Estimated Salary: $68K-$112K
Location: Remote
Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity, in open markets and permissionless technologies. Building from a base of permanent capital, we deploy assets across a range of both liquid and long-term strategies that ensure we are among the most active users of the open financial system we are helping to build. We’ve made venture investments in 50+ early-stage teams that we believe have the potential to create substantive change, expand boundaries, and find new horizons. We are consistently on the hunt for the most competitive and curious minds exploring the edges of the crypto ecosystem and leverage our hyper flexible structure to accelerate ideas into fully deployed strategies.
The Opportunity
As a People & Performance Associate, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our people operations and performance initiatives by leveraging tools and automation to drive performance. You’ll help build a culture of high-impact support, manage key talent operations, and enable Nascent’s teams to achieve ambitious goals. This role is ideal for someone with a strong digital toolkit, a natural knack for working with people, and an interest in maximizing people’s performance. This position is remote with travel once per quarter.
Responsibilities
Talent Acquisition: Work with hiring managers and team leads to lead end-to-end recruiting from scoping roles and creating compelling job descriptions, to building hiring strategies and managing recruiting partners.Onboarding: Leverage and implement tooling to support high efficiency onboarding outcomes and deliver exceptional people experiences.People-Centric Learning & Performance: Collaborate on initiatives to align learners with on job learning opportunities that increase engagement and performance.Strategy Execution: Supporting team leaders to align people and teams behind goals to deliver outcomes.**Insights & Impact:**Measure the effectiveness of people strategies using data analysis, supporting informed decision-making.Continuous Improvement: Leverage AI tools, LLMs, and automation agents to enhance operational efficiency across people and operations and strategic projects.
About You
Leverages a consulting-driven approach to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges with structured problem-solving, strategic agility, and a results-oriented mindset gained through exposure to diverse industries, markets, and organizational contexts.High Digital Proficiency: You’re comfortable working with the latest AI tools and LLMs to solve complex operational challenges.High-Energy & Collaborative: You bring enthusiasm and positivity to a collaborative environment and enjoy building strong relationships across teams.Bias for Action: You’re naturally inclined to take initiative and execute efficiently with high autonomy.People-Focused: You enjoy supporting and working closely with others, and you thrive in team environments.
Nice to Have
Exposure to AI tooling, recruiting, or people operations.Interest in human motivation and performance management.
Our Team & Culture
At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.
Principles that drive our team & work
Compete to winExplore, experiment, playAlways be buildingSeek and speak truthOwn your shit.
What We Offer
At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.
The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environmentRemote and distributed working environmentComprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to workHome office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipendRetirement plan matching contributionsOpen vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and locationTeam activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats