Senior Investment Analyst - AI, Tech & Blockchain Convergence

VanEck

$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-8 years in investment banking (M&A), private equity, growth equity, or fundamental public investing at a leading firm.
  • Owner's mindset; experience building and defending models based on unit economics.
  • Strong conviction in the intersection of AI and blockchain technologies.
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, or business with a solid quantitative foundation.
  • Willingness to work in office at least 4 days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct in-depth fundamental research on tech, internet, semiconductors, fintech, and blockchain-offered companies.
  • Develop comprehensive operating models, scenario analyses, and valuation frameworks to support investments.
  • Translate convergence catalysts into measurable inputs for investment models.
  • Create and upkeep the team's AI research stack, including data pipelines and automated systems.
  • Collaborate with management teams, founders, other funds, and developers in AI and blockchain sectors.

Benefits

  • Access to a generous discretionary bonus based on individual and fund performance tied to investment objectives.
  • Work environment promotes collaboration and innovation in cutting-edge sectors.
  • Opportunities to engage with leading figures in AI and blockchain ecosystems.
  • Possibility for professional growth in rapidly evolving industries.
Full Job Description
Summary: We run a concentrated, thesis-driven fund investing at the convergence of AI, technology, and blockchains. We're wrapper-agnostic with exposure spanning equities, convertible bonds, and tokens. We're hiring an analyst who underwrites like a private equity investor and builds as an engineer.

How we invest:
  • Like PE, in public markets.Every position is a full ownership case - TAM, moat, unit economics, multi-year growth/margin bridges, FCF-based valuation. Concentrated bets, multi-year horizons.
  • We buy mispriced optionality.The best setups hide inside companies the market prices as one thing while they quietly gain exposure to AI and blockchain rails - autonomy, agentic commerce, stablecoin settlement, tokenization. We find that embedded optionality and try to quantify it.
  • Agnostic on wrapper, rigorous on instrument.The best expression of a thesis might be equity, a convertible, or a token. You move across the capital structure without losing discipline.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Includes the following, other duties may be assigned as needed:
  • Own deep fundamental research on single names across tech, internet, semis, payments/fintech, and blockchain-linked companies
  • Build the full underwrite: operating models, scenario analysis, and valuation you can defend
  • Turn convergence catalysts into explicit model inputs, not narrative
  • Build and maintain the team's AI research stack - agents, data pipelines, automated monitoring
  • Engage management teams, founders, other fund managers and developers across both ecosystems

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Experience & Qualifications:
  • 4-8 years across investment banking (M&A) and private equity, growth equity, or fundamental public investing at a top firm
  • Owner's mindset: you've built models from unit economics up and defended them
  • Genuine conviction at the AI blockchain intersection
  • BS/BA in finance, economics, or business; strong quantitative foundation
  • Ability to work in office a minimum of 4 days a week

The AI-native edge:
  • LLMs are infrastructure in your workflow, not a search box
  • You've built with frontier-model APIs; agents, tool/MCP integrations, retrieval pipelines, coding-assistant projects
  • Working Python and SQL; fluency with on-chain and alternative data
  • You know where models fail and verify accordingly
  • What you've shipped matters more than any certification

Compensation:
  • If this position will be performed in whole or in part in New York City, the base salary range is $150,000-$200,000. Individual salaries may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a generous discretionary bonus based on individual and fund performance tied to specific investment objective-related KPIs. The compensation package also includes benefits and other forms of compensation, where applicable.

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