Hire – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com Latest Crypto News Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:18:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.8 https://i0.wp.com/earlybirdsinvest.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/cropped-New-Project-2024-12-17T235703.455.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Hire – Earlybirds Invest https://earlybirdsinvest.com 32 32 240146708 Coinbase to hire 130+ staff as it expands into Charlotte’s fintech hub https://earlybirdsinvest.com/coinbase-to-hire-130-staff-as-it-expands-into-charlottes-fintech-hub/ https://earlybirdsinvest.com/coinbase-to-hire-130-staff-as-it-expands-into-charlottes-fintech-hub/#respond Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:18:21 +0000 https://earlybirdsinvest.com/coinbase-to-hire-130-staff-as-it-expands-into-charlottes-fintech-hub/

Crypto exchange giant Coinbase is set to expand its footprint by hiring over 130 employees in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of a broader push to tap into emerging fintech talent pools across the US, a company spokesperson confirmed to Cointelegraph.

“Coinbase is making a new investment in Charlotte with a new physical office and an immediate commitment to hire for 130+ local roles across both Compliance and Customer Support over the next six months,” the spokesperson said.

They added that Coinbase’s focus on Charlotte is in response to the city’s emergence as a key financial and tech center, making it a prime choice for expansion to address increasing customer and compliance demands.

With a fast-growing population and a highly skilled talent pool, Charlotte offers an ideal setting to support Coinbase’s long-term growth, the spokesperson said.

Related: Coinbase Derivatives lists XRP futures

Coinbase remains a remote-first company

Coinbase has operated as a remote-first company since 2020, with existing offices in San Francisco and New York.

“We are still a remote-first company; however, we have some roles globally that are in office due to the nature of the role and our focus on how we can best deliver for our customers,” the spokesperson said.

They added that around 95% of Coinbase’s employees have the option to work from home, an office, or a mix. The bigger picture here is we’re making an intentional push to meet top talent where they are.

Related: Paul Atkins’ loosely linked RSR token rises 13% after Coinbase listing

The move comes as Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong outlined plans to add about 1,000 new US employees this year, driven by favorable regulatory signals from President Donald Trump’s pro-crypto administration.

“Coinbase is planning to hire about 1,000 people in the United States this year as a direct result of his actions already in the first 60 days or so,” Armstrong said in a video posted to X on March 7.

Armstrong revealing hiring intentions outside the White House. Source: Brian Armstrong

Adding 1,000 more employees would increase Coinbase’s total workforce by about 27%, according to Stockanalysis’ most recent data, which shows that the crypto exchange currently has 3,772 employees.

The new expansion plans also come as Coinbase has confirmed that it is considering applying for a US federal bank charter.

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By Pranesh Anthapur, Chief Human Resources Officer of Kraken

As one of the most trusted cryptographic platforms in the world, we employ innovation not only in cryptography, but also in the way we manage and support our employees, Krakenites. AI is an element of HR strategy, making more data-driven decisions, enhancing candidate experience and continually improving crakenite engagement.

Let’s take a look at how you use AI in your recruitment process. The future of recruitment is in line with our belief that AI should be embraced, but not determined by it.

AI-powered employment: efficiency without losing human touch

First of all: Kraken uses AI to not make “yes” or “no” decisions regarding employment. You will not be hired or rejected based on AI decisions. What AI does is to get rid of the noise. This will allow you to focus on the best talent.

Our recruitment and recruitment team continues to review each applicant individually. Attracting and recruiting the world’s top talent (Krakenights who live in over 70 countries) is important in the fast mobile industry like cryptography. AI helps streamline this process without sacrificing the personal touch, an integral part of Kraken’s culture.

AI during screening: Help us find the best, faster

If you’re the best candidate, don’t worry because AI works for you, not against you. This approach not only improves efficiency, but also removes bias from the process. Free our team to allocate more time to White Glove recruitment practices, improving both recruiter productivity and the overall experience of candidates (if you’re going through the recruitment process at Kraken, you’ll find it really is a 6 star).

Crypto jobs are in high demand, and Kraken is flooded with thousands of applications for all open roles. Instead of slipping through the cracks on good candidates, use AI to enhance the screening process. ai helps us:

  • Quickly spot top candidates by analyzing skills, experience and qualifications
  • Craft fair job descriptions that attract diverse talent pools
  • Free recruiters and focus on high-five, personalized recruitment

result? Merit-first adoption machine that will get the right people at the door without unnecessary delays or bureaucratic nonsense.

AI during interview: No exchange, strengthening

What uses AI:

Deart Transcription and analysis of interviews for deep insights
Optimize job description to attract top talent
Comperive Identify key capabilities and trends for fair employment decisions

Those that do not use AI:

Make a yes/no employment decision
❌Conducting an interview

Be authentic – bad hiring processes waste everyone’s time. AI reduces inefficiency and allows recruiters and employment managers to focus on what’s really important.

Instead of dropping notes or missing key moments, interviewers are now fully present. AI helps transcription and analyse interviews, find trends, highlight key capabilities, and ensure objectivity and fairness.

AI helps Kraken recruiting teams not waste their time. Or theirs.

Using AI to identify key capabilities and trends can help ensure that your recruitment process is fair, consistent and focused on finding the best talent. Our goal? An efficient, unbiased, and fast, truly merit-based hiring process. The employment process takes more than three months to finish? no thanks.

AI for employee engagement: Keep Krakenites happy

At Kraken, we don’t believe in reactive HR. We believe we get through real-time insights, positive improvements, and corporate noise and understand what really matters to people.

Through AI-driven research analysis, we gain real-time insights into how team members feel about their work, leadership and overall experience at Kraken. Rather than relying solely on human-sorted research, AI allows for faster digestion of trends and emotional changes, ensuring that concerns are addressed actively and without bias.

By leveraging NLP and sentiment analysis, you can extract meaningful patterns from open-ended feedback, surveys, anonymous forms, chat, and more, improve policies, strengthen happiness initiatives, and foster a positive workplace culture. There are no point in findings that collect dust in a spreadsheet.

Future: ai x hr = smarter kraken

AI is not slowing down, and we are not slowing down either. We are already looking ahead:

  • Personalized learning, development and career support with AI
  • Predictive analysis that predicts employment forecasts and informed decisions
  • Faster, fairer, more attractive HR process

But let’s be clear: people make Kraken, not ai. AI is another tool for our Arsenal. This makes us sharper, faster and more innovative.

At Kraken, we do not use AI to enhance human decision-making and replace it. This is because the future of HR is not something that robots will take over. It’s about using the best technology to build the best team.

And we don’t do that otherwise.

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What if artificial intelligence (AI) agents could hire other AI agents to help them with their work?

That’s essentially the idea behind Mech Marketplace, a decentralized platform from crypto-AI firm Olas that enables easy collaboration between various AI agents on an autonomous basis.

“We’re not at a point where AI agents can do everything,” David Minarsch, a founding member of Olas, said in an interview. “In order to architect the systems, it’s better if you separate concerns. So you let different agents specialize in different things, and that specialization gives rise to the need for agents to trade with each other.”

For example, if you’re using an AI agent to make money from prediction markets, the agent would typically know how to interact with the betting platform — how to place orders, how to withdraw funds — but it may need help from a different AI agent to make the actual predictions.

AI agents can already interact with each other; Olas has recorded more than four million transactions within its ecosystem, and more than half between agents. The difference, Minarsch said, is that AI agents can currently find other agents only by having their specific identities coded in.

The marketplace, then, makes things more dynamic; instead of being programmed to interact with specific bots, AI agents can now simply come to the Mech Marketplace and find whatever they need.

Olas is supported by a variety of blockchains: Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Base and Gnosis Chain, with the vast majority of transactions occurring on this last chain. Almost 2,000 AI agents have already been deployed across Olas’ ecosystem, about 500 of which are active on a daily basis.

The firm recently raised $13.8 million to help it launch Pearl, an app store that allows users to own AI agents.

Down the line, AI agents will likely be able to abstract away some of crypto’s complexities, Minarsch said. Instead of manually seeding wallets, bridging networks, and managing DeFi yield vaults, users will simply be able to tell the agent what to do for them.

“We will find ourselves in a situation where every human will have multiple agents augmenting their daily lives and fully autonomously doing things for them,” Minarsch said.

Read more: How AI Agents and Crypto Will Revolutionize Commerce

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