- Job description
We’re building a brand new economy revolving around a new digital currency, Global Income Coin. Our ambition is to scale GLO to billions of humans and millions of businesses. Meanwhile, we’re managing a reserve to manage the volatility of the coin, partnering with for-profits to design a flourishing ecosystem, running growth and marketing programs to get humans to spend their coins and spark real economic activity, so we can generate universal basic income and reduce worldwide poverty.
Scaling all of this in an economically sustainable way represents a multifaceted challenge of engineering, trading, monetary policy, marketing and community management.
All of this will be informed by data: onchain and offchain, behavioral, financial, economic, trading. We’re looking for a pragmatic Lead Data Scientist to set up analytics from scratch. You’ll work closely with the engineering, econometrics and trading teams to make sure we’re capturing what we need and make informed decisions on all fronts.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, econometrics or other quantitative discipline
- Several years of experience in applied data science involving user behavioral or financial data
- Several years of experience leading and implementing data research projects and teams
- Solid foundation of understanding the crypto ecosystem
- Experience in a trading, central banking or behavioral economics context is a plus
- Familiar with cryptocurrency exchanges and DeFi protocols
- Passion for crypto, an entrepreneurial drive, and a team player
Responsibilities
- End responsibility for capturing, managing analyzing onchain and offchain data
- Build econometric models for analyzing many different sources of data
- Derive analytical insights from data to inform decisions
- Modeling, measuring and forecasting supply and demand and its drivers
- Measuring economic behavior of consumers, businesses, market makers and other players in the GLO ecosystem
- Design the monetary policy for Global Income Coin
- Inform the way we manage and use the reserves for GLO volatility management and open market interventions
- Work with the economics, engineering trading teams to identify, implement and evaluate strategies, policies and initiatives
What we offer
- Full remote
- Competitive salary (but no stock options or premine—we’re a non-profit)
- High end gear of your choice
- Birthday off
- Generous benefits tailored to your locale (e.g. health insurance/pension/401k)
- Access to conferences and events
Why join Global Income Coin
- Crypto that’s actually useful and good for the world
- Very high-impact work—you’ll be one of Global Income Coin’s first employees
- Fast-paced trajectory—we’re well-funded and aim for massive mainstream adoption
- Non-profit with startup mentality—our founder, Sid Sijbrandij, led Gitlab from zero to $15 billion IPO
- The adventure of a lifetime—solve never-done-before problems in finance, tech, growth and many other domains
About us
Global Income Coin a nonprofit startup striving to give every human on earth a dollar a day of income. We’re launching a new coin, intended to be used for payments just like the dollar or the euro. As adoption grows, we can slowly create additional money and give this away for free, to people directly.
We are a global team of computer scientists and economists that combine academic rigor with a startup mentality.
- See website
- Browse team members on LinkedIn
- Read our WIP whitepaper
- Dive into our videos on YouTube