Who are we?
IOG, is a technology company focused on Blockchain research and development. We are renowned for our scientific approach to blockchain development, emphasizing peer-reviewed research and formal methods to ensure security, scalability, and sustainability. Our projects include decentralized finance (DeFi), governance, and identity management, aiming to advance the capabilities and adoption of blockchain technology globally.
We invest in the unknown, applying our curiosity and desire for positive change to everything we do. By fueling creativity, innovation, and progress within our teams, our products and services are designed for people to be fearless, to be changemakers.
What the role involves:
As a Business Analyst at IOG, you will be asked to help design, test and refine governance models for decentralized projects. This includes applying systems thinking, process design and data analysis to help define the actors and elements of a governance system, governance decisions, and processes to arrive at decisions. In this role, you must be able to apply theory to reality to successfully implement governance models.
Based on the cross-functional nature of decentralized governance projects, you must have a collaborative spirit and a commitment to understanding the business, legal, human and technical elements of the projects.
- Working with other governance experts, lawyers, product managers, and software developers to learn from and support developing a governance framework.
- Define the processes (on and off-chain) necessary to implement the defined governance framework.
- Collaborate with product managers to define user needs for tooling within the governance processes
- Apply user research methodologies to improve governance processes
- Collaborate with team members to analyze and understand the success of the governance model and where improvements are needed
- Maintain documentation of the governance framework, processes and supporting analysis
- Contribute to developing a repeatable model to define and implement decentralized governance models.
- Organize data to generate a long-term repository to learn across different governance projects
- Contribute to delivering workshops, user research, and governance experiments
The above list of responsibilities is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation.
Who you are:
- Demonstrable minimum 3+ year of Business process /systems design experience
- Business or engineering degree
- Political science background or relevant experience in corporate/local/state/national/Web3 governance
- Familiarity with software development projects
- Background in or aptitude to learn user research or similar methodologies
- Experience analyzing data to solve business problems
- Experienced using basic Office software (process flows, diagrams, docs, sheets, slides)
- Demonstrates a natural curiosity and commitment to ongoing learning, especially in emerging governance models
- Technically literate with the ability to understand and think in systems, while effectively communicating at the right level of detail for different stakeholders
- Collaborative and proactive in working with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- Ability to work in complex and evolving environments; able to navigate uncertainty and synthesize clarity from ambiguity
- Analytical and detail-oriented, with a strong ability to break down complex problems
- Adept at maintaining alignment across many global stakeholders
- Remote work
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Competitive PTO
At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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What We Do
Founded in 2015, IOHK is one of the world’s pre-eminent blockchain research and engineering companies, best known for the Cardano blockchain platform
We are a fully decentralized, remote-working organization committed to the highest principles of academic rigour and evidence-based software development. The company builds high-assurance blockchain products for public and private sector clients.
Our goal is simple – to fuel our drive to be best in class by giving you the opportunity, resources and support to deliver your finest work to date. You’ll work with some exceptionally talented and friendly individuals who are always open to new ideas and ways of working.
IOHK is an advocate of decentralized remote working, with over 300 people working in more than 50 countries. Everyone has a different skill set, a different culture, and is at a different stage in their life. We aim to make collaboration between diverse people fun, exciting, and always rewarding. Many companies say they ‘think outside the box’ – for IOHK it’s more, ‘we think outside the geography’.
