AI Lead

Variant•New York City, NY

13h

About The Position

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

Requirements

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