Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience in a senior leadership role, preferably in a remote, technical environment., Deep understanding of the Web3 and Blockchain ecosystem., Demonstrated high emotional intelligence and diplomacy skills., Strong technical background, ideally in Software Engineering..

Key responsibilities:

Support Co-Founders by extracting key information from meetings and ensuring action items are executed.

Facilitate structured decision-making processes for organizational decisions.

Serve as the single point of contact for the CEO/Co-founder, overseeing day-to-day operations.

Mediating conflicts between teams and fostering productive communication.

Job description

The role:

IFT has expanded significantly over the past few years, and we are looking to add an experienced Technical Chief of Staff to our leadership team. This is a high level role to support the Co-Founders, drive execution amongst the organisation and ensure that our Co-Founders can focus on the high-level strategy, communications and vision.

As Technical Chief of Staff you will be the right hand person to the Co-founders in supporting operational strategy and execution across each of our projects (Status, Logos, Nomos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Keycard). This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role. You’re a competent, action oriented senior leader with exceptional EQ; comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have a reputation for being a “fixer”. The ideal candidate comes with the ability to tackle all day to day operational tasks including the complexities of cross functional relationships and conflict resolution.

Responsibilities:

Support Co-Founders by extracting key information from meetings and written updates, ensuring that action items are recorded, planned and ultimately executed upon.
Ensure a structured decision making process is followed for organisational decisions.
Managerial responsibility and oversight - serving as the single point of contact to the CEO/Co-founder
Consistency in handling day to day operations
Mediator of any conflict between teams, facilitating productive communication & resolution
Handle any administrative issues/tasks (internal system approvals, budgets, etc)
End goal of alignment & achieving buy-in across the org, through observation, listening and connecting with our teams to understand priorities / pain points

Skill Set:

Aligned to our principles (https://status.im/our_team/our_principles.html) and ideology (https://logos.co/manifesto)
Embedded in Web3 / Blockchain ecosystem
Highly competent in running an organisation
Deeply Technical
Demonstrated, high emotional intelligence & diplomacy
Deep experience in leadership (preferably of remote, technical teams)
Experienced leader of leaders - able to help up-skill Program leads
Able to build trust / rapport quickly; empathetic yet assertive, listening, understanding, creating solidarity across our organisation.
Able to focus on big picture strategy, but also to zoom into intricate detail
FOSS experience

Bonus points:

Founder / Start-up experience
Experience working for a politically aligned organisation
Highly technical / background in Software Engineering

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Compensation:

The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Hiring process:

The hiring process for this role will be:

Interview with Pepper from our Talent team
Interviews with senior members of our organisation.

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

Get to know us:

We care deeply about open source software, and our organisational structure does away with a strict hierarchy and fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organisation's priorities.