ARK Investment Management Is Hiring:  

Fintech Research Associate 

 

Who We Are: 

ARK is a global investment manager focused solely on investing in disruptive innovation that is changing the way the world works. Majority Owner, Catherine D. Wood, founded ARK in 2014 on the belief that innovation is key to growth. Rooted in over 40 years of experience, ARK aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public and private markets resulting from technological innovations centered around genome sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. We invest in the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation. 

 

ARK manages and sub advises long-only global equity portfolios across a variety of investment vehicles, including a suite of exchange traded funds (ETFs), a venture fund, mutual funds, and separately managed accounts. Our investments are backed by an open research ecosystem designed to identify innovations with the potential for long-term growth.  ARK has greater than $20 billion assets under management. 

 

ARK is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all employees and strives to maintain an environment free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, or any other protected category or characteristics as defined by federal, state, or local laws. If you want to learn more, please visit our “Philosophy” page to understand how ARK differs from traditional investment firms. We also encourage you to meet the ARK team and follow us on Twitter. 

 

*This is a Full-Time position in our St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Office. 

 

What You Will Do: 

We expect you to perform high quality work to support our Fintech Innovation strategies. You will learn about and conduct original analysis on innovative technologies, while supporting and providing coverage of companies in your research area. Your work will directly inform our investment decisions, so your success is our success.  

 

Having onboarded billions of consumers and millions of merchants, digital wallets are transforming the economics associated with traditional payment transactions. ARK research suggests that digital wallets can facilitate more than $40 trillion in total processed volume in 2030, more than double the $19 trillion logged in 2022. Despite their growth and scale, digital wallets and related fintech innovations are justng to disrupt the legacy financial institutions and intermediaries. That’s where you come in. 

 

Responsibilities: 

      • Support ARK’s portfolios by combining top-down thematic research and bottom-up fundamental analysis to identify investment opportunities. 
      • Work closely with ARK’s internet team to identify innovative technologies, model the growth rates and sizes of new markets, estimate unit economics, and assess the competitive landscape. 
      • Research and identify both public and private companies that are the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation, focused on the fields of payments, digital wallets, blockchain, and other related financial technologies. Form investment recommendations based on your research to share with ARK’s Analysts, Directors of Research, Chief Futurist, and ARK’s CEO & CIO. 
      • Meet experts on your research topics through Twitter, conferences, ARK calls, or other channels and engage with them, learn from them, and share ARK’s published research. 
      • Actively gather feedback on your work through Twitter and other online platforms. 

 

 

Who You Are: 

      • You’re a technological expert. You believe in the power of technology to create a better future for humanity. You want to play a role in realizing and supporting that future. 
      • You have decent programming or data science chops. You can use scripting languages and analytics tools to scrape, analyze, visualize, and communicate data. 
      • You’re driven by your innate curiosity. You likely found ARK because your interests and ours converged. Because you follow the industry as closely as we do, you’re already quite knowledgeable about one or more of the technologies we cover. 
      • You enjoy quantitative analysis—collecting data, transforming it, and using it as the backbone of your forecasts. You don’t have to be a finance wizard, just have a willingness to learn on the fly. 
      • You’re a fabulous storyteller. You combine quantitative analysis, historical analogies, and cultural and user- centric considerations to form compelling narratives about how companies and technologies could evolve.  
      • You’re an independent thinker. You probably diverge from the mainstream, but you aren’t merely contrarian. You are interested only in finding the truth. Your strong conviction is balanced by a healthy dose of humility. 
      • You’re not just an analyst, you’re a builder. You want to find ways to scale ARK as a company, guide its culture, and push us in new directions we’ve not yet considered. 
      • You get things done. It doesn’t matter if you need to dive down a rabbit hole to learn a new subject or find an out-of-print book in the corner of the internet, you get excited by the challenge and know how to move the ball forward. 

 

If this description doesn’t fit you, but you have something unique to offer, please apply anyway. 

 

 

How to Apply 

The best way for us to get to know you is through examples of your work. This may be a blog, presentation, podcast, newsletter, or tweetstorm. If you don’t have an example of your work, we’d encourage you to create one. Please also tell us about yourself, why you want to work at ARK, and tell us about a technology that you are interested in and why it is interesting. 

 

To learn more about what it's like to work at ARK please visit https://ark-invest.com/work-at-ark/ 

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