Challenges

Nothing worth doing is easy.

The leaders in any field make their success look easy. However, behind the veneer they’re in constant flux, critiquing their own performance, setting new heights, and continually reevaluating assumptions about how they perform their work. We’re still in the early stages of our growth trajectory and many of our biggest challenges lie ahead. While we’re proud of what we’ve built so far, we labor in thinking about everything we have not done yet. We need you to help solve the more complex problems that will surface.

We must be extremely targeted at what we do and how we do it.

Planning means sacrifice – we have great ambitions with limited resources over short time horizons. We are content that we are licensed in 33 states (and accelerate rollout of 18 additional states in 2024), and partner with an industry leader back-end technology provider. While in every quarter there are many important projects we want to undertake, the reality is that we simply can’t undertake all of them.

Growth requires reinventing our technology.

The technology that got us here won’t get us there. While our front-end system was recently built, we are constantly retooling to ensure corporate issuers can continue to successfully raise capital seamlessly at low cost, stay resilient to risks, and provide category-leading products and services at scale.

We know we need to know more.

Every project exposes us to challenges that extend beyond our current capabilities. This motivates us to bring in people like you—people who have knowledge and experiences we don’t, and who can quickly bring their talents to bear on difficult-to-solve problems. ArcStone is not a pay-your-dues culture; we will train you quickly and then give you substantial responsibility. ArcStone is not simply a place where you “have a job” – we are relentlessly entrepreneurial, from the top down, and expect all our staff to roll-up their sleeves. We often have small teams with various expertise and skills sets, accomplish amazingly important work. The pace of change and velocity of our platform force you to develop new skills, experiment with new tactics, and walk in a variety of corporate issuers’ shoes. All these attributes contribute to our mantra – “we get deals done”. We realize our clients measure their success by our performance.

We need to balance speed with regulatory compliance.

We must be able to build things quickly to support the fastest growing startups and corporate issuers in the world, while also being reliable, trustworthy, and ensuring regulatory compliance with securities rules and regulations. We need to get projects done today, while building advanced digital capital raising platforms that the internet will rely upon for decades. We also need to balance an intense work environment against the need to support fulfilling and sustainable careers.

The right people don’t always think they’re right.

Successful ArcStone employees are rigorous thinkers who appreciate that things worth doing are rarely simple. We want people who are not afraid to be wrong, who can enthusiastically back proposals they initially opposed, and who can defend decisions with numbers and narrative. We operate in situations of substantial uncertainty and cannot afford either timidity or recklessness. We favor decisiveness backed by data, experience, intuition, insights, and most importantly, the long game in mind.

The global financial system can seem like a mystifying domain. It is not. It is composed of people and computers, just like many other systems you’ve worked on. Many ArcStone employees don’t have a background in finance, and they’ve thrived here because they bring fresh perspectives and are go-getters. They are seeking to find companies that are diamonds in the rough that we can help catapult their success in the capital markets. We want generalists capable of parachuting anywhere into our operations, learning about a field they have never touched before, and executing competently in areas far outside their formal sphere of activity. We also want specialists who are already experts and want to spend several years advancing the state of the art in their fields.

We know that we cannot be successful without nurturing the careers of both generalists and the experts. People who thrive in high conflict work environments often do not enjoy the experience here. We try to embrace kindness while still encouraging our staff to take measured risks and act boldly, confidently, with some humility, even without consensus.