Team Coordinator (aka Chief Acrobat)

As Team Coordinator at Nascent, you'll be the operational backbone of a high-output trading firm. You own a wide surface area: from recruiting and onboarding to special projects that don't have a playbook yet, and whatever else needs doing to keep a fast-moving team firing on all cylinders. This is a Swiss army knife role where you'll use AI-native tools and workflows to move at a pace that would be impossible otherwise. You'll partner directly with senior leaders, create clarity across stakeholders, and serve as the connective tissue between people, projects, and priorities.

What you'll do

• 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.

What you bring

• 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).
• 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 take pride in serving them well.
• 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, and you have hands-on, daily use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot integrated into 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 have a demonstrated track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams across stakeholders without dropping balls.
• You have experience supporting recruiting processes: sourcing, scheduling, pipeline coordination, or candidate communication.
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize ambiguity into clear action items and documentation.
• You build strong working relationships quickly and communicate with clarity, warmth, and follow-through.

Nice to have

• 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 such as Greenhouse, Lever, or Ashby.

What we offer

• The opportunity to learn, experiment, and build in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Remote-first, distributed team with frequent in-person sprints and retreats.
• Competitive total compensation with strong bonus upside tied to performance.
• Hardware and home-office stipend, conference and learning budgets.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus life insurance.
• Open vacation policy, flexible work hours, and flexible location.
• 16 weeks fully-paid parental leave plus supported return to work.
• Retirement matching.

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent builds, expands, and captures opportunity in open markets and permissionless technologies. The firm deploys assets across a range of liquid and long-term strategies and has backed 100+ early-stage teams. Nascent combines venture and market expertise with product-grade engineering to turn research into revenue, focusing on models, low-latency infrastructure, and resilient systems that compound performance over time. The team is interdisciplinary: engineers, quants, and operators who treat skill-building like a sport, operating on principles of competing to win, exploring and experimenting, always building, seeking truth, and owning outcomes.