Program Manager
Job Description
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.