AI-First Talent Partner

The Opportunity

As an AI-First Talent Partner at Nascent, you’ll sit at the intersection of people, performance, and systems. You’ll help shape how our team operates and wins—using tools, automation, and sharp judgment to build high-impact talent operations that scale. From enabling people leaders to managing core talent workflows, your work will directly support ambitious goals and a culture built on clarity, ownership, and results.

You’ll own full-cycle hiring across our investing, engineering, and platform teams—partnering closely with people leaders to define success, design crisp sourcing strategies, and run fast, high-signal processes. Beyond hiring, you’ll help evolve how we attract, assess, and onboard exceptional people so they ramp quickly and perform at their best. If you’re energized by finding great talent, curious about what drives human performance, and excited to help build a high-performance team from the inside—this is your seat. This role is fully remote with occasional travel required a few times a year. While Pacific Time is preferred, we welcome candidates within +/- 4 hours of EST Time zone.

Responsibilities

• Talent Acquisition: Work with hiring managers and team leads to lead end-to-end recruiting from scoping roles and creating compelling job descriptions, to building hiring strategies and managing recruiting partners.

• Onboarding: Leverage and implement tooling to support high efficiency onboarding outcomes and deliver exceptional people experiences.

• People-Centric Learning & Performance: Collaborate on initiatives to align learners with on job learning opportunities that increase engagement and performance.

• Strategy Execution: Supporting team leaders to align people and teams behind goals to deliver outcomes.

• Insights & Impact: Measure the effectiveness of people strategies using data analysis, supporting informed decision-making.

• Continuous Improvement: Leverage AI tools, LLMs, and automation agents to enhance operational efficiency across people and operations and strategic projects.

About You

• 5-10 years of experience: You’re comfortable moving across Talent and People Ops, quickly jumping from strategy to execution. You’ve built in ambiguity and learn fast.

• Leverages a consulting-driven approach to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges with structured problem-solving, strategic agility, and a results-oriented mindset gained through exposure to diverse industries, markets, and organizational contexts.

• High Digital Proficiency: You’re comfortable working with the latest AI tools and LLMs to solve complex operational challenges.

• High-Energy & Collaborative: You bring enthusiasm and positivity to a collaborative environment and enjoy building strong relationships across teams.

• Bias for Action: You’re naturally inclined to take initiative and execute efficiently with high autonomy.

• People-Focused: You enjoy supporting and working closely with others, and you thrive in team environments.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI tooling, recruiting, or people operations.

• Interest in human motivation and performance management.

Our Team & Culture

At Nascent, we are an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders & creators, capable of achieving more together than we can as individuals. We offer the opportunity to contribute to building the future global economic system with a world-class team and culture that pairs the freedom to explore, experiment & play with a competitive drive to win. We invest in our people by providing the autonomy to build, coupled with accountability & honest feedback to help learn, grow, perform & win. Our distributed team understands the value of in-person time—we host two team retreats per year and encourage team members to come together for more frequent in-person work.

About Nascent

Founded in 2020, Nascent exists to build, expand, and capture opportunity in open markets and permissionless technologies. With permanent capital as our foundation, we deploy assets across both liquid and long-term strategies, and have invested in over 100 early-stage teams shaping the future of crypto and open finance.

We’re an interdisciplinary team of investors, builders, and creators—drawn together by curiosity, competition, and a shared drive to win. Our culture pairs autonomy with accountability and honest feedback. We invest deeply in our people and believe in combining the freedom to explore with the discipline to execute.

Principles that drive our team & work

• Compete to win

• Explore, experiment, play

• Always be building

• Seek and speak truth

• Own your shit

What We Offer

At Nascent, we offer a competitive total compensation package heavily weighted toward bonus, ensuring that when we perform at our best and the firm wins we all win.

• The opportunity to learn, experiment and build in an entrepreneurial environment

• Remote and distributed working environment

• Comprehensive health benefits package including dental, vision, and life

• 16 weeks fully paid parental leave & supported return to work

• Home office setup and stipend or coworking space and wellness stipend

• Retirement plan matching contributions

• Open vacation policy as well as flexible work hours and location

• Team activities and bi-annual in-person team retreats

We are an equal opportunity employer and celebrate diversity and differences of perspectives. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status, inclusive of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.