Team Coordinator (aka Chief Acrobat)

Summary

Nascent is a technology-focused financial firm operating across open markets and permissionless technologies. The Team Coordinator serves as the operational backbone of a high-output team, coordinating recruiting, administration, special projects, stakeholder communication, and AI-enabled workflows while supporting senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end coordination of recruiting efforts on the operations side — sourcing, scheduling, candidate communication, pipeline tracking, and hiring manager support
• Run day-to-day operations and administration across your team: calendaring, travel, expense coordination, vendor management, and keeping the gears turning on everything that doesn't have someone else's name on it
• Drive special projects from ambiguous ask to completed deliverable — scoping requirements, building lightweight project plans, coordinating across stakeholders, and closing loops
• Serve as the primary point of contact and enabler for your team lead, anticipating needs, clearing blockers, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
• Use AI tools daily to accelerate your own output — drafting communications, summarizing research, building templates, automating repetitive workflows, and staying ahead of a high volume of work
• Create and maintain operational documentation, trackers, and lightweight systems that bring order to a fast-changing environment
• Coordinate across teams and functions to keep information flowing, deadlines visible, and stakeholders aligned — especially when priorities shift quickly
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and build trust as a reliable, people-first operator across the organization

Skills

• You are a doer first — you get energy from checking things off, moving fast, and making the people around you more effective
• You are deeply people-oriented and customer-centric; you see your team leads and colleagues as your customers and you take pride in serving them well
• You have high ambiguity tolerance — you don't need a detailed brief to get started, and you're comfortable figuring things out as you go
• You are AI-first in how you work: you reach for AI tools instinctively to draft, research, organize, and move faster, not because you're told to but because it's how you operate
• You are highly organized and adaptive — you can hold many threads simultaneously and reprioritize without losing momentum when the ground shifts
• You are a fast learner who is genuinely curious about finance, markets, and how trading firms operate, even if you don't come from that world yet
• You are scrappy and resourceful — you've thrived in environments where the playbook didn't exist and you had to build it yourself
• You build strong working relationships quickly and communicate with clarity, warmth, and follow-through
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams across stakeholders without dropping balls
• Hands-on, daily use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar) to accelerate real work — not just experimentation, but integrated into how you operate
• Experience supporting recruiting processes: sourcing, scheduling, pipeline coordination, or candidate communication
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize ambiguity into clear action items and documentation
• 3–5 years of professional experience in operations, project management, chief of staff, or a generalist role at a fast-moving startup or high-output organization (8 years max)
• Experience in or exposure to financial services, prop trading, or hedge fund environments
• Background as a founder, early startup employee, or chief of staff where you wore every hat available
• Comfort with light tooling and automation — building workflows in Notion, Zapier, Make, or similar platforms to eliminate repetitive work
• Familiarity with recruiting tools and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or similar)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You are a doer first — you get energy from checking things off, moving fast, and making the people around you more effective
• You are deeply people-oriented and customer-centric; you see your team leads and colleagues as your customers and you take pride in serving them well
• You have high ambiguity tolerance — you don't need a detailed brief to get started, and you're comfortable figuring things out as you go
• You are AI-first in how you work: you reach for AI tools instinctively to draft, research, organize, and move faster, not because you're told to but because it's how you operate
• You are highly organized and adaptive — you can hold many threads simultaneously and reprioritize without losing momentum when the ground shifts
• You are a fast learner who is genuinely curious about finance, markets, and how trading firms operate, even if you don't come from that world yet
• You are scrappy and resourceful — you've thrived in environments where the playbook didn't exist and you had to build it yourself
• You build strong working relationships quickly and communicate with clarity, warmth, and follow-through
• Demonstrated track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams across stakeholders without dropping balls
• Hands-on, daily use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or similar) to accelerate real work — not just experimentation, but integrated into how you operate
• Experience supporting recruiting processes: sourcing, scheduling, pipeline coordination, or candidate communication
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize ambiguity into clear action items and documentation

Nice to Haves

• 3–5 years of professional experience in operations, project management, chief of staff, or a generalist role at a fast-moving startup or high-output organization (8 years max)
• Experience in or exposure to financial services, prop trading, or hedge fund environments
• Background as a founder, early startup employee, or chief of staff where you wore every hat available
• Comfort with light tooling and automation — building workflows in Notion, Zapier, Make, or similar platforms to eliminate repetitive work
• Familiarity with recruiting tools and applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or similar)

Benefits

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment
• Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats
• Competitive total comp with strong bonus upside tied to performance
• Hardware & home-office stipend
• Conference and learning budgets
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision)
• Life insurance
• Open vacation policy
• Flexible work hours and location
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave + supported return to work
• Retirement matching