The Growth team at DFINITY is on a mission to build the Internet Computer ecosystem by partnering with high impact entrepreneurs and developers, and enabling them to build products that serve billions of people.
As a Program Manager in the growth team you will be responsible for helping manage various initiatives such as hackathons, educational bootcamps, ecosystem marketing and PR support, developer grants, etc. Working cross-functionally across Growth, Product, Legal, Finance, Comms & Marketing, and Engineering, you will help coordinate teams internally to ensure our builders have a best-in-class experience. You will formulate new processes and help in direct execution of various programs.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Define, measure, and track success of various programs from the growth team. Provide regular reports to leadership on the impact of various programs
- Plan hackathons and educational bootcamps with high quality partners to engage developers from concept to execution, including planning and logistics, partner selection, coordination and post-event analysis.
- Work closely with product, marketing and design teams to align growth initiatives are executed in alignment with the various stakeholders.
- Work with the comms and PR teams to get marketing exposure for ecosystem teams.
- Help manage the ecosystem and developer grant pages on the website and social channels
- Work collaboratively with Legal and Finance to ensure streamlined payments to respective external partners
Requirements:
- Self starter with 5+ years of work experience in program or project management, business development or consulting
- Understanding of cryptocurrency, blockchains and other Web 3.0 technologies (preferable, not required).
- Experience running hackathons and bootcamps
- Comfortable with project management tools such as Airtable
- Demonstrated ability to balance thinking strategically and creatively with process and metric-driven execution
- Great communication skills -- ability to influence at all levels of the organization and engage professionally with external parties
- An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to succeed in a fast-paced environment
* Please note that this role requires in-office work from our amazing office in Zurich 3 days per week
About DFINITY and the Internet Computer:
DFINITY is a leading contributor to the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), with a mission to bring the world's compute onto the secure ICP network. Built on its unique third-generation blockchain technology, ICP enables the development and operation of a new generation of unstoppable, tamper-proof, fully decentralized web applications. Its powerful technology can run entire AI models within smart contracts, representing a major advancement for secure AI. Through seamless integration with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other networks, ICP facilitates multi-chain operations for digital assets and web3.
Join our team of over 250 talented individuals, including world-renowned cryptographers, distributed systems engineers, programming language experts, and industry leaders, who are shaping the future of the internet and web3.
DFINITY was founded in 2016 by entrepreneur and crypto theoretician, Dominic Williams.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
What We Do
The DFINITY Foundation’s mission is to build, promote, and maintain the Internet Computer — the world’s first web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain. It enables smart contracts to securely serve interactive web content directly into the browsers of end users, making it possible to build dapps, DeFi, open internet services, and enterprise systems that are capable of operating at hyperscale. The Internet Computer uses smart contracts to power an emerging decentralized ecosystem of interoperable dapps and services, where nearly every system and service can run in reimagined form on public blockchain.
