Career at Woodstock Fund

Woodstock, founded in 2019, is a multi-asset emerging technology fund house currently focused on investments in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) with emphasis on four areas - Infrastructure layer, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Web 3.0 protocols and Tokenization (both fungible and non-fungible). Woodstock works diligently with portfolio companies to help them scale and grow their ecosystem globally.

At Woodstock, we aim to attract the best talent at all levels and across all disciplines. If you wish to learn, grow and accelerate your career, come join us at Woodstock!

Chief Marketing Officer

About the role Woodstock is looking for a self driven full-time Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), to lead the branding, public relations, communication and marketing strategy & plans of the fund. As the CMO, reporting to the General Partner, you will own our WS brand, with the responsibility to design the overall marketing roadmap for the fund across media channels, leveraging your media relationships to build, strengthen and scale our brand globally with a focus on deep roots in India.

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What you'll do

  • Brand & Positioning:
    • Build and scale our WS brand as a strategic competitive advantage, building a brand of choice for investors and investees
    • Shape and communicate our vision and mission
    • Translate brand elements into plans and go-to-market strategies with a targeted audience approach
  • Communication & Public Relations:
    • Leverage the Web 3 communities and media channels, including events, to strengthen our brand presence, creating visibility & thought leadership
    • Build and execute a strong Communications Strategy & Plan, internally & externally
    • Define our Value Proposition and work closely with the HR team to embed its elements to strengthen our culture
    • Coach and prepare our WS leaders for external events
  • Marketing & growth for Portfolio companies:
    • Set marketing goals and milestones, execute impactful marketing campaigns for WS on a global and national scale
    • Advise individual investees, running programs, making connections & driving outcomes
    • Plan, implement and manage marketing strategy
    • Identify & work closely with agencies to execute on marketing plan
  • Scope includes Global, emerging technology and network of relationships

Job requirements and qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in Marketing/ Brand/ Communication leadership roles.
  • Should have led brands, campaigns & marketing strategies to drive outcomes.
  • Strong Communications background, Public Relations experience is a plus.
  • Prior experience in building and scaling a start up brand is preferred.
  • Relevant understanding of/ experience with CRM and SEO tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, HubSpot, WebTrends, Salesforce, etc.
  • Self driven & passionate, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • MBA in Marketing, Management or similar relevant field preferred.
  • Some experience/knowledge of blockchain/VC/ Web 3 space is good to have.
  • Role will be based out of UAE (preferable)/ India, mostly remote working, in/outside country travel expected.

Level: Senior Management

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Research Associate

About the role Woodstock is looking at a research associate to join its Investments and Research team. As a member of the team, you will learn about blockchain, venture capital, meet inspiring entrepreneurs, and get exposure to emerging technologies and products.

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What you'll do

  • Stay updated with industry news plus grants, hackathons, and accelerator programs to find early-stage companies as per the fund’s thesis and build a network of sources. Develop a keen point of view on investment in various categories and companies. Work on well-rounded and informed theses.
  • Connect with prospective investments and entrepreneurs on calls. Carry out extensive due diligence of their product, business plan, go-to market strategy, token economics, team, competitive position, and the like.
  • Take up complete ownership of the deal – from introduction, due-diligence, financial modeling, investment notes, investment committee presentations to closing. Act as the primary point of contact for portfolio company management. Provide ongoing support to portfolio companies.
  • Engage in building financial models and token models, write and publish research articles to build thought leadership in the space.

Requirements

  • At least 1-2 years of experience working in a blockchain, traditional finance, venture capital, or product management role.
  • Genuine interest and belief in blockchain and digital assets’ value propositions and deeply optimistic about the future of Web 3.0.
  • Fluent in spoken and written English. Analytical and organized mind with remarkable attention to detail.
  • In-depth knowledge of performing financial, valuation, and comprehensive quantitative analysis.

Added advantage

  • Previous experience in Web 3.0 role and in-depth understanding of the space.

    (experience in coding, understanding blockchain consensus mechanisms, technical security risks)

Problem Statements

NFT Problem Statement
(Upto 2 Pages)

  • What is the macro trend for collectible NFTs for a 3 year time horizon?
  • Open problem statement: a brief article on any topic in the NFT sub sector that interests you.

DeFi Problem Statement
(Upto 2 Pages)

  • One Pager Investment Memo on any DeFi project that interests you.
  • What are some DeFi primitives - Instruments that haven’t been implemented in Traditional Finance before and what excites you the most?

Layer-1 Problem Statement
(Upto 2 Pages)

  • Develop a valuation framework for layer-1 blockchain tokens, and use it to arrive at a valuation for Ethereum.

*Kindly submit/upload your response to any 1 problem statement while applying for the position.

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Research Associate (Tech)

About the role Woodstock is looking at a research associate to join its Investments and Research team. As a member of the team, you will learn about blockchain, work with founders on emerging technologies, manage nodes, and perform on-chain data analytics for various blockchains.

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What you'll do

  • Stay updated with industry news plus grants, hackathons, and accelerator programs to find early-stage companies as per the fund’s thesis and build a network of sources. Develop a keen point of view on investment in various categories and companies. Work on well-rounded and informed theses.
  • Connect with prospective investments and entrepreneurs on calls. Carry out extensive due diligence of their product, business plan, go-to market strategy, token economics, team, competitive position, and the like.
  • Take up complete ownership of the technical due diligence process for companies being considered for investment. Provide ongoing support to portfolio companies.
  • Write and publish research articles to build thought leadership in the space.

Requirements

  • Genuine interest and belief in blockchain and digital assets’ value propositions and deeply optimistic about the future of Web 3.0.
  • Experience in one scripting language (Python, Ruby) and one object-oriented programming language (C++, Java)
  • Versatility when encountered with new programming languages
  • Fluent in spoken and written English. Analytical and organized mind with remarkable attention to detail.

Added advantage

  • Previous experience in Web 3.0 role and in-depth understanding of the space.

    (experience in coding, understanding blockchain consensus mechanisms, technical security risks)

Problem Statements

A brief article on the architecture of Oracles and which according to you is the best design.

A brief article on the architecture of ZKRollups and Differentiate between different ZK based projects.

A brief article on the MEV projects such as Chainlink Fair sequence services, submarine sends, Flashbots.

*Kindly submit/upload your response to any 1 problem statement while applying for the position.

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Security Engineer

About the role The primary responsibility of this role is for Woodstock Fund’s security-related services.

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Key responsibilities for this role include

  • Proactively monitor/review smart contracts of portfolio companies and corresponding important third-party partnerships for vulnerabilities
  • Conduct security reviews for portfolio companies
  • Work directly with the external blockchain developers to audit their code and secure their products including smart contracts, protocols and dapp.
  • Conduct security research and publish findings in technical blog posts / conferences.
  • Improve our processes and offering and strive for the satisfaction of our clients
  • Contribute to our internal security tools and create new ones that help improve the security services by following good engineering practices.
  • If you are excited about hacking, threat modeling, scanning, auditing, designing, and enhancing the security of smart contracts across the board then you will be a great fit in this role.

While you work with investee companies, we will also provide you with great opportunities to get involved with research and development efforts to help us raise the standards of blockchain security.

Requirements

  • Passion for Cryptocurrency/Defi/Blockchain
  • 2+ years of experience with solidity, the EVM and blockchain technology
  • Experience in security auditing of smart contracts, formal verification of smart contracts or penetration testing
  • Bachelors or above in Computer Science/Information Technology/Computer Security or a related field
  • Experienced in threat and vulnerability management, penetration testing and SecOps (intrusion detection, security logging, malware analysis, and forensics)
  • Experience developing tooling in Solidity, Vyper, Javascript and Python

Additional advantageous skills

  • Working knowledge of threat analysis, APT or threat response
  • Professional experience as SWE, or Security Engineer
  • Strong Math background
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Tech Developer

About the role The primary responsibility of this role is to engage with Woodstock’s portfolio companies from a technology perspective.

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The key tasks associated with this role include -

  • Building and maintaining a development report/dashboard for tracking developer growth across major ecosystems
  • Tracking code and product progress of all portfolio companies
  • Helping teams on development tasks
  • Sharing insights for improvement
  • Contributing to our internal tools and create new ones
  • Following all partnerships formed and integrations made by portfolio companies

We are looking to hire someone with a full-stack development skill set, and expect the candidates to have the ability to write robust code, analyse data, present insights, build relationships, and provide value end-to-end. The role will help the individual build great connections, work on various new technologies, and understand the blockchain development space.

Requirements

  • Passion for blockchain tech and development
  • Proficiency in at least one frontend and one backend language, besides basic understanding of C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript
  • Bachelors or above in Computer Science/Information Technology or a related field
  • Prior experience in independent development
  • Familiarity with API integrations, GitHub, and CICD pipeline

Additional advantageous skills

  • Professional experience as SDE
  • Strong CS background

Problem Statement (Any 1)

Build a dashboard of on-chain metrics for any blockchain and draw relevant insights from it and present it to us

Build a developer report which gives dev activity on various blockchains (at least 2) and this should be a GitHub project which generates the report

*Kindly submit/upload your response to any 1 problem statement while applying for the position.

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