We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.
At present, the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this in the open (under an MIT open source license) because we believe in open source innovation and its ability to accelerate growth.
OP Labs is building Optimism mainnet, and by extension, the infrastructure that powers all OP-Stack chains. We are improving Ethereum’s performance by orders of magnitude and donating the profits from doing so to funding Ethereum public goods. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation, OP Labs can align its incentives with the public good and take positive-sum steps toward a sustainable future for the internet.
We're on the lookout for an amazing Technical Program Manager to join our lively and growing team! In this role, you’ll be the go-to person for all things around the fast moving programs we deliver to our end users and community. In this role you’ll be collaborating with our brilliant product development team, and various stakeholders to make sure we deliver our solutions efficiently and on time. If you love working in a dynamic environment where you can make a real impact, we want to hear from you! Let’s make tech magic happen together!
What are the role responsibilities?
These should be deliverables that can be measured (eg. OKRs); these deliverables will be mapped to the Core Competency Interview. Note: these will be posted externally.
- Program Manager: Lead the charge on exciting technical programs, ensuring everything runs like a well-oiled machine. From creating timelines, program dashboards, planning, and managing dependencies, you’ll be at the center of the excitement for programs at OP Labs!
- Security Audit Wrangler: Organize how we manage our audit process to insure a smooth experience in development process.
- Release & Launch Management: Drive our release and launch process into an efficient process so we can get our solutions to the community!
- Team Collaborator: Work hand-in-hand with our brilliant engineers, product folks, and dependent teams to nail down program goals and make cool things happen.
- Communication Expert: Keep everyone in the loop with regular updates on project status, risks, and wins—making sure all stakeholders are happy and informed.
What skills do you bring?
These should be attributes that a candidate needs in order to achieve the above OKRs; these attributes will be mapped to the Hiring Manager Screen. Note: these will be posted externally.
- Experience: Proven track record for coordinating and delivering complex large-scale software projects.
- Tech Skills: A solid grasp of software development processes. Bonus points for understanding of Web3 development and blockchain platforms!
- Methodologies: Strong knowledge of Program Management methodologies such as PMP, Agile, Pragmatic Marketing, LUMA, and other advanced project/program management certifications.
- Start-up & Agency Experience - We’re small, or as we like to call it, concentrated awesome, so we’re looking for folks are used to working in scrappy, quick, and roll-up your sleeves environments that are prevalent in start-ups and agencies.
- Process Orientated & Systems Thinker - Excellent ability to assess how work is done and create a processes and frameworks that work from small teams to large organizational systems. This can be a creating a consistent system for a team’s ways of working to simplifying the release management process.
- We take care of our employees. Competitive compensation, fully paid medical, dental, and vision, and a 4% 401K match—learn more about our benefits, culture, and all recruiting FAQ here.
- We take pride in the accomplishments of our teammates and support each other in doing the best work of our careers.
- Our team is a diverse group of people from varied backgrounds. We cherish our eclecticism and consider it a great strength.
- We’re fully remote, deeply engaged, highly skilled, and like to have fun.
- We think long-term. Our founders have been scaling Ethereum since 2015.
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Optimism, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
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What We Do
Everybody and their mother working on blockchains loves the word “decentralization”. On a broad, world-changing scale, we can all agree that it’s important. Yet, when we zoom into the specifics of how to build this decentralized world, we find many diverse approaches. Whether it’s defi, identity, art, healthcare, or anything in between, a single dependency unites each dream for the future: scalability.
We are building the critical infrastructure to address this need. Optimistic Ethereum is an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and philosophy. Not only do we enable orders of magnitude more performance, we’re also doubling down on Ethereum’s values as a public good, never to be captured by private commercial interests. Ethereum will enable the greatest change in human coordination since the birth of the internet, and Optimism is here to bring it to the masses.
Join a team that is passionate about solving complex problems by exploring (and/or expanding) the boundaries of technology! We are a remote first company with local hubs where teams can co-work IRL, when safely able to do so. We aim to grow quickly, so come help us build! :-)
