Senior Associate

Alpha FMC

Alpha FMC is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Our Strategy & Deals division works with corporate clients, Private Equity firms, and investors on growth strategy, M&A strategy, and Commercial Due Diligence (CDD) engagements. We combine deep financial services expertise with rigorous consulting methods to deliver high-impact insights for our clients globally.   Role Overview We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our growing Strategy & Deals team in North America. This role is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in consulting or financial services who is looking to build deep expertise in growth strategy, M&A strategy and value creation. Senior Associates play a critical role in structuring analyses, leading workstreams and developing insights for client projects.   Key Responsibilities * Lead individual workstreams within strategy and value creation projects, including market analysis, competitor benchmarking and customer research * Manage and analyze qualitative and quantitative data sets (market data, financials, interviews, surveys) to develop actionable insights * Support hypothesis development and contribute to client deliverables with clear, compelling storylines * Supervise and coach junior team members, ensuring high-quality outputs * Engage directly with clients and expert networks to gather market intelligence * Contribute to internal knowledge development and business development efforts, including proposals and thought leadership   Qualifications * ~3 years of experience in strategy consulting, or equivalent experience in investment banking, private equity, or related fields within a strategy and M&A context * MBA preferred (or equivalent advanced degree / experience) * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfort with both qualitative and quantitative analysis * Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) with the ability to distill complex findings into clear insights * Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, project-based environment with tight deadlines * Interest in financial services in addition to corporate strategy (prior exposure to asset and wealth management is a plus)   What We Offer * Opportunity to work directly with senior leaders and blue-chip clients in the financial services and private equity sectors * Entrepreneurial, collaborative environment with significant responsibility early on * Competitive compensation and benefits, with a clear path for career progression * Ability to work on projects for clients across North America and Europe

Bitpanda

WHO WE ARE  We simplify wealth creation. Founded in 2014 in Vienna, Austria by Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek and Christian Trummer, we’re here to help people trust themselves enough to build their financial freedom — for now and the future. Our user-friendly, trade-everything platform empowers both first-time investors and seasoned experts to invest in the cryptocurrencies, crypto indices, stocks*, precious metals and commodities* they want — with any sized budget, 24/7. Our global team works across different cultures and time zones, bringing our products to more than 7 million customers, making us one of Europe’s safest and most secure platforms that powers modern investing.   Headquartered in Austria but operating across Europe, our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. It’s these diverse perspectives and innovative minds operating as ONE TEAM that keep Bitpanda at the cutting edge of our industry. So if you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team. Let’s go!     YOUR MISSION: As a Senior Associate, AFC Compliance Advisory & Oversight at Bitpanda, you will play a key role in supporting the continued growth of Bitpanda's institutional and enterprise business. Working at the intersection of law, regulation, product innovation and commercial strategy, you will advise on complex legal and regulatory matters relating to our B2B, B2B2B and B2B2C partnerships across multiple jurisdictions. You will partner closely with Business Development, Compliance, Product, Risk and senior stakeholders to structure new partnerships, assess legal and regulatory risks, support enterprise due diligence processes, negotiate commercial agreements, and help bring innovative products to market. This is a unique opportunity to shape the legal framework behind one of Europe's leading digital asset platforms while working with banks, financial institutions, fintechs and other strategic partners. What you’ll do: * Act as a AFC advisor to Bitpanda Enterprise, providing practical legal and regulatory advice across strategic B2B, B2B2B and B2B2C partnerships with banks, financial institutions, fintechs and other enterprise clients. * Represent Bitpanda in legal and regulatory discussions with prospective and existing partners, supporting enterprise due diligence processes, responding to legal and compliance questionnaires, addressing regulatory queries, and helping build trusted, long-term business relationships. * Support the review, drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, including partnership, technology, API, outsourcing, licensing, confidentiality and other contractual arrangements, while balancing AFC risks with commercial objectives. * Support the development and launch of new products and services by assessing legal and regulatory implications and working closely with Product, Compliance, Risk and Engineering teams to enable compliant and scalable solutions. * Monitor and interpret developments in financial services and digital asset regulation, translating legal requirements into practical guidance, identifying AFC risks and contributing to governance frameworks that support the continued growth of Bitpanda Enterprise. WHO YOU ARE: * Educational Background: A university degree in Law is highly desirable. Alternatively, you have relevant professional experience reviewing, drafting and providing legal feedback on commercial agreements, partnership agreements, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), confidentiality agreements and other legal documentation within a regulated environment. Having familiarity with European financial services regulation, including areas such as MiCAR, MiFID, PSD2/PSD3, AML/CFT or outsourcing requirements, is a strong advantage. * Professional Experience: You have experience supporting regulated financial services, fintech, banking, payments, digital assets or other regulated industries, either in a  compliance, legal, regulatory or commercial advisory capacity. Experience working with enterprise customers, financial institutions or strategic partners is highly desirable. * Commercial Mindset: You are able to balance legal and regulatory considerations with business objectives, providing practical, solution-oriented advice that supports product development, commercial partnerships and business growth. You can communicate complex legal and regulatory concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences and are comfortable managing multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment. * Language Proficiency: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and German. Professional proficiency in German is required.   WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU * Flexibility to work where you thrive – Enjoy the freedom of our Hybrid working model, combining onsite collaboration and remote work, with an additional 25 days per year to work from a city or country of your choice. * Reward for your impact – Receive a competitive total compensation package aligned with Bitpanda’s pay-for-impact policy, including participation in our stock option plan. * Support for your mental wellbeing – Access confidential coaching, counselling, and mental health resources whenever you need them through OpenUP. * Time to recharge – On top of your standard annual leave, Prioritise your wellbeing with 3 additional days of paid time off to rest, reset, and recharge, available once you’ve been with us for 6 months. * Continuous learning and growth – Grow your skills and stay ahead in your career with unlimited access to Udemy’s library of online courses at your own pace. * Exclusive perks and rewards – Enjoy discounts, rewards, and perks from partners worldwide across lifestyle, wellness, tech, and travel. * Support during life milestones – Take advantage of our additional 8 weeks of gender-neutral new parent leave to welcome and bond with your new addition to the family. * Fuel and focus on-site – Pandas in Vienna, Bucharest, Barcelona, and Berlin can enjoy free onsite dining, with freshly prepared lunches and snacks to keep you fueled and focused all day long. * Recognition for your contributions – Celebrate milestones and achievements with recognition and rewards for your Tenure at Bitpanda. * Show your Bitpanda pride – Access exclusive Bitpanda-branded merchandise and gear to represent. * Connect and celebrate with your team – Join unforgettable company events, from our Winter Party in Vienna to gatherings worldwide, fostering fun, connection, and celebration        .…and even more location-specific benefits designed to make life at Bitpanda even more rewarding wherever you are.   Above all, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow as part of Bitpanda’s incredible journey towards being Europe’s future #1 investment platform. BITPANDA IS COMMITTED TO FOSTERING A FAIR AND EQUAL ENVIRONMENT BASED ON TRUST AND MUTUAL RESPECT. WE BELIEVE THAT A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WORKPLACE IS PARAMOUNT TO OUR SUCCESS AND WE ARE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A TEAM THAT REPRESENTS A WIDE VARIETY OF BACKGROUNDS, PERSPECTIVES, AND SKILLS. * THESE BENEFITS MAY BE ADJUSTED AT BITPANDA’S DISCRETION AND DO NOT APPLY TO OUR INTERNSHIPS AND EXCEPTIONS TO OUR HYBRID WORKING POLICY APPLY TO TEAMS WITH SHIFT SCHEDULES OR FOR FOLKS WHOSE ROLES REQUIRE THEM TO BE IN-OFFICE (THINK: WORKPLACES TEAM OR IT).

Centre for Effective Altruism

ABOUT CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We're working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people motivated by EA principles to take significant action, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation grew by 20–25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined. In 2026, we're maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem's growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. ABOUT EA FUNDS Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds) is the grantmaking arm of CEA. Our mission is to increase the amount of funding dedicated to particularly cost-effective and impactful projects across global health & development, animal welfare, the long-term future, and EA infrastructure. It’s a particularly exciting time to join EA Funds. EA Funds’ recent integration with CEA allows the team to benefit from shared infrastructure and opens up significant opportunities for programmatic synergies. We’ve also seen the example of EA Funds' Animal Welfare Fund scaling from ~$3M to $10M in a single year under full-time leadership with tens of millions more expected this year, and we believe other funds have similar potential. EA Funds is trusted by thousands of donors (including through our partnership with Giving What We Can, which recommends our Animal Welfare Fund and our Long-Term Future Fund) to allocate their donations to the highest-impact opportunities. We take that trust seriously: we aim to be among the most credible, transparent, and impactful giving platforms in effective altruism. ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring a Senior Associate to be a force multiplier for EA Funds' senior leadership and various grantmakers. This is a generalist role that blends executive support, donor-facing communication, grants operations, and project management. The right person will enable senior leaders and grantmakers to focus on the highest-leverage work (strategy, grantmaking decisions, and donor relationships, etc.) by taking ownership of the operational, administrative, and communication work that keeps EA Funds running smoothly. This role is a clear growth opportunity. You will interact closely with the director of EA Funds as well as the grantmakers of the various funds of EA Funds. This would give you context on EA grantmaking across cause areas, and get a front seat in how philanthropy leaders make decisions. This could be a launching pad for someone who wants to build toward operations leadership, program management, or a chief-of-staff-type role or other leadership roles in CEA/EA Funds or the broader EA ecosystem. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES GRANTS OPERATIONS (~45%) * Grant database management: Maintain the EA Funds grant database (in Airtable), ensuring records are accurate, well organized, and up to date. * Application processing: Read, categorize, and triage incoming grant applications; flag or process various requests (e.g., no-cost extensions) in partnership with CEA’s grants team. * Operational support for grantmaking: Fulfill various requests that arise during the grantmaking process, such as salary benchmarking, compliance checks, or gathering reference information. * Analysis and reporting: Run ad-hoc analyses to support decisions. E.g., analysis of M&E data from grants, donor giving patterns, fund performance, or other questions from leadership. EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS (~20%) * EA Funds inbox management: Monitor and manage the EA Funds inbox, ensuring emails are answered promptly. * Public-facing content: Draft or support the creation of Forum posts, memos, presentations, and other materials for external audiences. * Support donor communication and relationships (may evolve over time as we hire dedicated development professionals): * Draft payout reports, quarterly progress updates, and other correspondence for current and prospective donors. Ensure donor-facing communications are clear, professional, and on-brand. * Research donors ahead of calls, prepare talking points, and maintain a donor relationship tracker to keep engagement organized. TEAM-LEVEL PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PROBLEM-SOLVING (~15%) * Keep work on track across the team: Break vague goals into concrete steps, track ownership and deadlines across EA Funds workstreams, follow up on commitments from team meetings, surface blockers or priority conflicts early and flag when priorities need re-evaluating. * Team productivity: Proactively identify ways to improve how the EA Funds team works: better systems, clearer processes, smarter use of tools (including AI). * Lead or support team-wide projects: Examples include improving pieces of the grant evaluation processes, upgrading internal systems, strengthening onboarding, streamlining reporting, or building new workflows. Projects will often be in collaboration with other teams within CEA. * Finances: Support EA Funds' financial management (e.g drafting or reconciling budgets, review transactions) MISCELLANEOUS SUPPORT (~20%) * Meeting support: Prepare briefing materials and agendas ahead of key meetings; capture and follow up on action items afterward. * Logistics: Manage scheduling, coordinate travel or events and handle logistics * Other tasks as assigned: In a growing team, flexibility helps! WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We're less focused on specific credentials and more on how you think and work. We expect strong candidates to have most of the following: JUDGMENT AND OWNERSHIP * You take full ownership of your work: you follow through, close loops, and don't let things slip through cracks. * You exercise good judgment about when to act independently, when to escalate, and when to push back. WRITTEN COMMUNICATION * You have strong writing skills, especially for professional correspondence and donor-facing materials. You should be able to draft a thoughtful email to a major donor or a compelling payout report with minimal guidance. ORGANIZATION AND EXECUTION * You're highly organized and energized (not drained) by managing multiple workstreams, deadlines, and competing priorities across different team members. You should be the kind of person who sees a messy situation and instinctively starts structuring it. * You're reliable and proactive: you track commitments without being asked, surface problems early, and keep things moving. SOFTWARE * You’re familiar with Airtable or would pick it up in a day. * You are a strong user of AI tools. ANALYTICAL ABILITY * You can pull together data, make sense of it, and present it clearly, whether it's grantmaking metrics, donor data, or a quick benchmarking exercise. You don't need to be a data scientist, but you should be comfortable with spreadsheets and basic quantitative reasoning. ALIGNMENT AND CONTEXT * You’re familiar with effective altruism and genuinely motivated to support EA Funds' mission. You don't need to be a longtime EA community member, but you should understand the core ideas and be excited about them. * You take pride in being the reason things run smoothly and you see the impact in what your work unlocks: the time you free up for grantmakers and leadership is time they spend getting funding to the projects that need it most. * You have discretion and maturity in handling sensitive information about donors, grants, and internal strategy. BONUS (NOT REQUIRED) * Experience in executive support, operations, or a chief-of-staff-type role. * Experience in nonprofit grantmaking, philanthropy, or donor relations. * Familiarity with the EA ecosystem, key organizations, and cause areas.   OTHER INFORMATION * This is a full-time, remote position. The majority of the EA Funds team is currently Central European Time (CET), with some additional team members in different US timezones. Applicants should be able to have work hours between Eastern Time (ET) and CET. We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to if based there. * Start date: August 2026. * Reports to: Loic Watine, Director of EA Funds * Compensation * US: total compensation package of $90,026, comprising a base salary of $81,842 and a 10% 401k contribution. * UK: total compensation package of £54,159 comprising a base salary of £49,235 and a 10% pension contribution. * Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package * Benefits in the US/UK include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, unconditional 10% pension / 401k contribution, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. * This role will involve travel. We expect 3 to 6 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. CEA participates in E-Verify for US employees. We are committed to protecting your data. See our privacy policy for more information.