Senior Investment Lead

About the role

As a Senior Investment Lead at Arbitrum Foundation, you will play a crucial role in driving strategic growth within the capital markets community. Your primary focus will be on establishing and nurturing relationships with both crypto-native and traditional investment organizations, aligning partnerships with Arbitrum's strategic objectives.

You will be responsible for preparing compelling investment materials, managing investor interactions, and coordinating major capital market events. Success in this role involves leveraging your network and market insights to enhance Arbitrum's positioning and influence within the investment community.

Skills that matter here

• investment analysis: This role requires demonstrated experience in investment analysis to evaluate opportunities and support capital deployment.
• relationship development: Building and maintaining relationships across the financial markets and digital assets landscape is essential for this position.
• blockchain ecosystems: Hands-on experience with Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchain technologies is necessary to understand the industry context and investment landscape.
• communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are needed to synthesize and present complex financial information clearly.

Who this role suits

• A professional with 5-8 years of experience in investment banking or related fields.
• Someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments and can adapt quickly.
• An individual with established connections in the financial markets and digital assets community.
• A clear communicator who can effectively convey investment insights and strategies.

From the employer

• Investor Prospecting and Relationship Building: Build and maintain scalable systems to identify, conduct due diligence, and support engagement with both crypto-native and traditional investment organisations. Identify opportunities to develop firm relationships and onboard new partners aligned with Arbitrum's strategic priorities, with the support of executives and internal stakeholders.
• Investment Positioning: Prepare and deliver compelling materials that advance the investment positioning of the ecosystem, such as investment collateral, financial information, ecosystem updates, and investor Q&A.
• Investor Coordination: Coordinate and manage investor and financial partner meetings, roadshows, and other major capital markets-related events.
• Metrics & Reporting: Own CRM and pipeline reporting across key workstreams and relationship funnels. Support the definition and tracking of KPIs measuring Arbitrum's reach and influence across the investment community.
• Market Intelligence: Monitor market sentiment, peer digital assets industry positioning, and investment trends to surface insights that inform messaging and engagement strategy.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal teams to surface relevant data and ensure consistent, compliant market positioning across the organisation.
• Investment Due Diligence: Work closely with internal stakeholders to translate investment principles into actionable insights relevant to opportunities for investment and deployment of capital. Support end-to-end investment due diligence for selective investment opportunities.

• 5- 8 years in investment banking, consulting, investor relations, or corporate development
• Demonstrated experience in investment analysis, relationship development, and financial markets, including transactions and fundraising
• Hands-on experience with Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchain ecosystems, Ethereum, or other decentralised technologies
• Highly networked across the financial markets community and/or digital assets landscape
• Established relationships and working knowledge across the investment community, including crypto-native VCs, traditional asset managers, research houses, and prime brokerages
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesise and present financial and business performance-related information clearly
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment

• Remote-first global workforce
• Industry-leading healthcare insurance
• Home office set-up allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Growth / continuing education allowance
• Flexible time off
• Company-issued laptop