Protocol Labs is hiring Web3 Startup Operator, Public Goods Funding
Startup Operator, Public Goods Funding
Experience
Minimum 1 Year
Employee type
Full Time
Position
Senior
Offer Salary
Desired Qualifications
- Experience creating, running, and iterating on efficient, data-driven processes
- Experience supporting the transition of research projects into development and deployment and awareness of opportunities for improvement in this pipeline
- Experience planning research meetings and/or research/research-development work packages
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
- Deep flexibility and creativity with the ability to adapt to fast-changing needs and priorities
- A bachelor’s degree in a scientific, mathematical, or engineering discipline
Bonus points if you have...
- Prior research or development experience in the Web3 ecosystem, prior experience in running your own startup, or experience as an active contributor to an open-source project
- Engineering background or strong familiarity with Web3 technologies
- Experience in a research spinout or accelerator/incubator program
- Research experience in a scientific, mathematical, or engineering field
Duties & Responsibilities
- Design, host, and guide research intensive workshops, hackathons, conferences, and other high-impact research events
- Experiment with new tools for decentralized knowledge production and new mechanisms for incentivizing high-impact research
- Build relationships with members of the academic and decentralized science communities, learning about their projects and connecting them with resources and potential collaborators
- Conduct internal and external research to understand best practices in research, research management, and research funding organizations, and synthesize this information into actionable recommendations
- Drive and track the execution of research initiatives, and develop metrics to evaluate the success of research initiatives against their stated objectives
- Identify opportunities for process improvements in research and research management practices
- Proactively identify and clear roadblocks impeding the success of research projects, such as engineering or developer support or other resource requirements
- Help research teams assess their next best move, including developing business and sustainability models, and locate available resources
- Assist in onboarding academic researchers to the Web3 research & development ecosystem
Our Company
Protocol Labs is a research, development, and deployment organization that builds tools to move science forward faster. From our experience researching and building core protocols for the decentralized web, we’ve learned that breakthrough research is an important public good, and we’ve created the Network Research lab to identify, guide, and support high-impact research across a broad spectrum of domains.
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