Position: Blockchain EIR
Company: UpPeople
Category: Other
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

he ideal candidate will have scaled a successful startup. The ideal candidate is also having fun learning about cryptocurrencies, day trading, minting NFTs, joining DAOs, and finding other ways to get involved in their free time.
You’ll be joining a team of 12 full-time employees, two-thirds of whom are engineers. You’ll work alongside the CEO to help organize and run and prepare the organization for high growth.
🧑‍✈️ Leadership
Jason Grad, Co-founder and CEO: Top-1% Yelp sales rep and founding member of Yelp’s national sales team; founder of 2 successfully acquired venture-backed startups, Cheerful and RCVR
Brian Kennish, Co-founder and CTO: Pre-IPO Google engineer, on the teams that launched Google’s first 3 APIs then the Chrome browser; developer of 7 subsequent apps with 1M+ active users, including Disconnect (privacy software available on ~1B users’ computers) and Adblock Fast (an ad blocker with 10M+ users)
📋 Responsibilities
Research and contact Layer 1 protocols that are candidates for decentralization and distribution
Write internal deal memos for potential company blockchain initiatives
Develop and execute strategy for scaling researched and approved initiatives
Coordinate between blockchain projects, engineering, and sales
Recruit key players for various initiatives, like blockchain investors, co-founders, partners, and clients
🧭 Ideal candidate
Experience working in early-stage startups
2–3 years successfully scaling a tech startup in a similar role
Experience with modern software used for startups
Experience with Excel or Sheets
Experience with Keynote
Extremely organized

Would be a plus:
2–3 years of finance experience
2–3 years of consulting experience
Experience in the blockchain space
Design skills
Coding skills
Former founder
MBA or other advanced degree
Social media skills

Anywhere in a time zone between EST and PST preferred; we've found that large time differences can be tough in a small team; you don’t need to be in the US