Event Coordinator

Protocol Labs is looking for a hard-working, logistics-oriented person who is passionate about being a key member of a small but mighty Event Team. As a member of the Protocol Labs Events Team, you will be responsible for planning all aspects of both internal and external events including quarterly team meetings, annual company wide meetings, open source and developer conferences, and additional events within the US as well as internationally. The Events Team create exciting, inspiring, and productive Protocol Labs events, and also provides support for our team members attending other events and conferences.

Responsibilities

    • Collaborate with Project Teams and Support Teams to determine needs for each individual meeting or event
    • Research and communicate with unique venues in domestic and international locations
    • Research and secure accommodations and workspaces for smaller team meetings
    • Negotiate and manage group hotel blocks for team travel
    • Track event expenses and manage budget
    • Coordinate domestic and international travel logistics
    • Perform event marketing tasks and community outreach for major external events
    • Oversee event timeline to ensure deadlines are met and materials are ordered and delivered
    • Plan pre-event logistics including management of event registration and lists of attendees, securing vendors, coordinating catering, A/V, layouts, and coordination with venues.
    • Some travel will be required to larger, complex events that need an Event team member onsite.
    • Day of Event execution including set-up/breakdown, coordination of vendors, registration, managing event schedule, trouble-shooting, etc.
    • Provide additional event support such swag shipments, ordering work supplies, coordinating additional events (team dinners, speaker receptions, etc.)

Requirements

    • 2 years of event coordination and marketing experience in the technology industry
    • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
    • Experience providing exemplary customer service under pressure
    • Exceptional people skillsExcellent time management and organization skills
    • Ability to plan and deliver against hard and fast deadlines
    • Creative problem solver
    • Experience planning events internationally
    • Experience working remotely and with partners across multiple international time zones
    • Comfortable with 15-20% travel

Bonus if…

    • You have a Bachelor’s degree, especially in a related field
    • You have fluency in G Suite, Trello, Github, Slack and Splashthat
What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?
Protocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.
As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

Paralegal, Corporate

As a Paralegal at Circle, you will provide a full range of corporate, regulatory and logistical support for the Legal Team. We are looking for someone to join a fast-paced team and who is self-initiating, team-oriented and capable of managing competing priorities.

What you’ll work on

  • Provide support to Circle’s global legal operations
  • Own and maintain of corporate governance records, including board minutes, consents, equity documents, and capitalization table
  • Prepare and file documentation relating to global entity formation and maintenance
  • Review and prepare markups of commercial contracts and non-disclosure agreements, coordinating with internal decision-makers and liaising directly with third parties to drive negotiations to completion.
  • Assist with drafting, editing, and processing of contracts and standard forms
  • Manage the company’s global intellectual property portfolio
  • Responsible for maintenance of the legal team’s invoice management and service providers.
  • Assist with gathering information to; review, summarize and analyze data relative to corporate and regulatory changes and trends impacting the organization enterprise-wide
  • Manage corporate compliance calendar and assist with filing requirements
  • Prioritize conflicting needs and proactively follow up, often under tight deadlines
  • Coordinate execution of signature pages for transaction documents

What you’ll bring to Circle

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 2+ years experience at a financial institution or leading law firm
  • Obsessively organized, with a creative problem-solving edge
  • Maintain an energetic and positive attitude, especially under pressure
  • Exercise discretion with highly confidential business information
  • Fluent with Microsoft Office products and Google Apps
  • Experience with corporate governance preferred

Circle is a pioneer in cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and financial services, with a track record of building products and services used by millions of consumers and thousands of companies.  Circle’s Platform has supported over $80B in transactions with customers in over 150 countries. Circle’s most recent crypto currency project, US Dollar Coin (USDC), is the fastest growing and most widely adopted fully backed and audited US dollar stablecoin in the world.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Circle. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

Sr. Accountant

RESPONSIBILITIES
 · Manage Accounts Payable, expense reimbursements and corporate credit card programs
· Prepare and record journal entries with supporting documentation to ensure a timely month-end close process
· Prepare reconciliation schedules and analyze variance as part of the month-end close process
· Assist with the annual audit, ensuring requests are delivered in a timely manner
· Be the book expert and assist FP&A with management reporting
· Complete and manage other strategic initiatives & ad hoc projects as needed
· Analyze balance sheet accounts and post monthly journal entries
· Maintain and track intercompany loan schedules
REQUIREMENTS
· 4-6 years accounting experience in similar positions
· Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience required
· Experience with QuickBooks
· Solid understanding of US GAAP and full cycle accounting required
· Expert using Excel, able to work with large quantity of data to dissect and analyze
· Strong written and verbal communication skills required
· Able to multitask and work independently in fast paced environment
Budgeting & planning: prepare meaningful analysis (internal and external) for strategic business decisions and model financial situations
· Assist with the annual budgeting and forecasting process and quarterly variance analysis
· Ensure all accounting transactions are properly recorded
· Assist in ensuring internal controls and compliance processes are in place and operating effectively
· Establish and track core metrics that are essential to the financial health of the company
· Calculate and forecast burn and runway, and accurately present current future cash position in real-time
· Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team; proactively collaborate, influence, and align the company’s planning processes to achieve the overall company strategy
· Work cross-functionally to drive process and systematic improvements including data collection and reporting streams across the organization
· Work directly with external auditors and provide supporting documentation as needed
· Perform ad hoc projects and reporting as needed by executive management
· Oversee accounts payable, processes and procedures
· Other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
· 3-5 years FP&A and/or related experience
· BS/BA degree in a quantitative discipline
· Strong financial modeling skills in Excel
· Familiar with setting up finance software systems
PREFERRED
· Experience working in a start-up
· Strong interest in fintech, blockchain and/or open-source
· Ability to write and understand SQL
· Working technical knowledge of tax (e.g. US GAAP accounting, tax laws, US and international compliance deliverables, etc.) is helpful in managing outside financial partners)

Finance Lead

Tari leverages blockchain technology to re-imagine the future of digital assets. We make it ridiculously easy for anyone to issue, manage, and trade experience-linked assets like concert tickets, airline miles, or in-game purchases. All without limiting middlemen or walled gardens. To accomplish this goal, we’re building a highly scalable, open-source, and decentralized blockchain on top of Monero, one of the most secure cryptocurrencies.
Our founding team includes well-known leaders from the worlds of entertainment and blockchain, including: the co-founder of Ticketfly (sold to Pandora for $450m), the lead maintainer of Monero (a top ten, $2bn+ market cap cryptocurrency), and the leader of the digital agency behind stars like Carrie Underwood and Lil Wayne.
Are you passionate about bringing blockchain to the masses? Do you want to help build open source software that millions of people will use? Do you check your ego at the door and fight for the best idea regardless of where it came from? If so, then we look forward to hearing from you.
RESPONSIBILITIES
 · Budgeting & planning: prepare meaningful analysis (internal and external) for strategic business decisions and model financial situations
· Assist with the annual budgeting and forecasting process and quarterly variance analysis
· Ensure all accounting transactions are properly recorded
· Assist in ensuring internal controls and compliance processes are in place and operating effectively
· Establish and track core metrics that are essential to the financial health of the company
· Calculate and forecast burn and runway, and accurately present current future cash position in real-time
· Be a trusted advisor to the leadership team; proactively collaborate, influence, and align the company’s planning processes to achieve the overall company strategy
· Work cross-functionally to drive process and systematic improvements including data collection and reporting streams across the organization
· Work directly with external auditors and provide supporting documentation as needed
· Perform ad hoc projects and reporting as needed by executive management
· Oversee accounts payable, processes and procedures
· Other duties as assigned
REQUIREMENTS
· 3-5 years FP&A and/or related experience
· BS/BA degree in a quantitative discipline
· Strong financial modeling skills in Excel
· Familiar with setting up finance software systems
PREFERRED
· Experience working in a start-up
· Strong interest in fintech, blockchain and/or open-source
· Ability to write and understand SQL
· Working technical knowledge of tax (e.g. US GAAP accounting, tax laws, US and international compliance deliverables, etc.) is helpful in managing outside financial partners)

Mobile technical lead

Tari leverages blockchain technology to re-imagine the future of digital assets. Our mission is to make it ridiculously easy for anyone to issue, manage, and transfer experience-linked assets like concert tickets, airline miles, or in-game purchases. All without middlemen or walled gardens. To accomplish this goal, we’re building a new highly scalable, open-source, and decentralized blockchain on top of Monero, one of the most secure cryptocurrencies.
Our founding team includes well-known leaders from the worlds of entertainment and blockchain, including: the co-founder of Ticketfly (sold to Pandora for $450m), the lead maintainer of Monero (a top ten, $2bn+ market cap cryptocurrency), and the leader of the digital agency behind stars like Carrie Underwood and Lil Wayne.
Are you passionate about bringing blockchain to the masses? Do you want to help build open source software that millions of people will use? Are you excited to implement cutting edge blockchain technologies like Mimblewimble and Lightning Network? Do you check your ego at the door and fight for the best idea regardless of where it came from? If so, then we look forward to hearing from you.
As the Head of Mobile Development, you will manage a remote and diverse team across several time zones and countries. You will be working with Heads of Design, Engineering and Platform and will be responsible for ensuring that projects are shipped on time to world-class standards of reliability, performance and user experience.

About you:

    • 8+ years experience as a mobile software engineer.
    • 3+ years experience in both Android and iOS.
    • 3+ years experience in working in and/or managing remote teams.
    • Experience contributing to open-source projects is a major advantage.
    • Experience in ReactNative is an advantage.
    • Proven experience of delivering high-quality mobile applications, either alone or as a leading member of a team.
    • Completely familiar with the publishing process on both the Google Play store and Apple App store.
    • Comfortable with Github, Git, and agile development processes.
    • Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    • You will be required to write news articles, blog posts or present talks at local and international conferences highlighting the exciting features and progress of the products.
A degree in Computer Science from a recognized university is an advantage, but not a prerequisite.

Customer Success

We are looking for someone to run customer success who is passionate about cryptocurrency.

**Responsibilities**
– Respond to user feedback in a timely fashion
– Engage users and help build community around the product
– Champion the voice of the user in the product

**Requirements**
– **Work in San Francisco**
– Strong written communication
– Excited about cryptocurrency
– Early-stage startup mentality: productive, self-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity
– Learning mindset

Treasury Operations Analyst

 

As a member of Treasury Operations, you’ll gain real-world experience supporting day-to-day treasury banking operations, ensuring proper internal controls and protection of customer information. Working out of our Boston office, you’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills, collaborate across teams and continue to learn. You will help us to ensure the success of critical treasury operational functions, including cash reconciliation, wire processing, transaction confirmation and cash positioning. You will also participate in the development of related policies and processes to ensure alignment with Treasury objectives, primarily as it relates to cash and financial risk management.
What you’ll work on:
  • Support customer reconciliation activities for fiat flowing through our platform and ensuring an accurate, up-to-date cash position and complete exception management
  • Evaluate internal control structures and data to identify weaknesses and any associated risks, as well as make recommendations on how to mitigate those risks
  • Interact and communicate with internal stakeholders regarding daily processes and critical issues
  • Identify and investigate opportunities for new processes and resources

What you’ll bring to Circle:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or closely related field
  • 3+ years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience
  • Ability to influence internal and external customers to resolve exception items and achieve organizational objectives on an expedient basis
  • Ability to manage multiple competing priorities and use good judgement to establish order or priorities on the fly
  • Proven success at identifying and documenting key performance and risk indicators and can develop meaningful and insightful management dashboards and reporting
  • Established ability to organize, analyze and interpret data to explain irregularities or trends
  • Self-motivated and creative problem-solver
  • Demonstrated ability to create an amazing customer experience, with a high level of customer satisfaction
  • Experience/familiarity with Slack, Mac OSX and GSuite

Business Operations Associate

About Pantera
As the first U.S. Bitcoin investment firm, Pantera Capital is the leading blockchain investment firm and one of the largest institutional owners of cryptocurrencies. Our mission is to act as the catalyst for widespread blockchain adoption and innovation. Pantera currently manages $500mm in capital in seven funds in three product groups – passive, hedge, and venture.
The Role
Pantera is seeking a Business Operations Associate to help guide the firm through its next phase of growth. Primary responsibilities are to assist in the firm’s capital raising efforts and manage mission critical business systems. Secondary responsibilities are to assist with the creation, maintenance, and execution of marketing content and collateral. The ideal candidate will be able to pick up new skills quickly, operate with ambiguity, and work cross-functionally to drive outcomes for the team.
The position is based in Menlo Park and reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer. 

Responsibilities:

    • Build and manage a pipeline of institutional investors for Pantera’s fund offerings
    • Perform data analyses for the executive team and deliver recommendations on key strategic questions
    • Actively identify and drive initiatives that will help Pantera scale its internal operations
    • Assist in the creation and maintenance of the firm’s investor presentations for client meetings, conferences, and webinars
    • Research potential speaking engagements and help coordinate logistics and materials for the CEO
    • Assist with email campaigns, conference calls, roadshows and other marketing initiatives
    • Update the client database in Salesforce
    • Correspond with existing and/or potential investors

Qualifications:

    • 1-3 years in consulting, private equity, investment banking or comparable role at a high growth tech company
    • Strong academic background at a highly ranked school
    • Exceptional verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
    • Knowledgeable and passionate about blockchain/cryptocurrency technologies
    • Must be a self-starter who has proven ability to cultivate relationships and help improve overall client relationship process/structure
    • Attention to detail and concern for quantitative accuracy
    • Excellent project management and multi-tasking skills
    • Bonus: Experience with programming languages (e.g. Python, SQL) and experience with marketing CRMs (e.g. HubSpot, Salesforce)

Marketing/Executive Assistant

Seeking candidates for a hybrid Marketing & Executive Assistant position. Primary responsibilities are to assist the firm’s CEO with managing his and the firm’s capital raising efforts. Assist with the production of marketing content, including: Investor Letters, email correspondence, investment reports, fund updates. Market research and reporting related to potential investors and the firm’s investment strategy. Secondary responsibilities include investor relations tasks, such as client database updating, existing and potential investor correspondence and event planning.
The primary objective of this role is to assist the CEO in any capacity needed, including marketing, administrative and personal requests. We are seeking candidates that eager to assist and complete tasks large and small.

Responsibilites

    • Successfully complete all requests related to marketing, office administration and personal by the CEO in a timely manner.
    • Assist in the production of the firm’s Investor Letter. Work closely with the investment team to create interesting and topical content.
    • Assist in the creation and maintenance of the firm’s investor presentations for the fund offerings managed by the firm.
    • Research potential speaking engagements and help coordinate logistics and materials for the CEO.
    • Update the client database in Salesforce.
    • Correspond with existing and/or potential investors.
    • Gather information on investor in funds managed by the firm.

Qualifications

    • Strong academic background at a highly ranked school
    • Exceptional verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
    • Knowledgeable and passionate about blockchain/cryptocurrency technologies
    • Extensive knowledge of hedge fund strategies and analytical methodologies is advantageous
    • Must be a self-starter who has proven ability to cultivate relationships and help improve overall client relationship process/structure
    • Attention to detail and concern for quantitative accuracy
    • Excellent personnel and project management skills

Project Operator, IPFS

Support the reference implementation of a resilient, open, and upgradeable network for humanity’s information. This Project Manager will be focused on organizing team efforts, guiding them toward common goals and milestones, along an agreed-to timeline. This Project Manager will manage one or more of IPFS’s Working Groups, coordinating across technical team members to ensure timely and successful execution of the Working Group(s)’ goals.
IPFS is one of the most promising projects of Web 3.0. Combining distributed systems research with large-scale real-world application, IPFS has brought content-addressed, peer-to-peer applications to millions of monthly active users. If successful, IPFS will form a new foundation for a distributed web of knowledge and computation for humans everywhere — 🌎 – 🚀 – 🌖.
Project Management at Protocol Labs
This isn’t an ordinary Project Operations position. We are a distributed organization of over 130 collaborators (worldwide), split across 15 countries and with no regular offices.  Protocol Labs currently consists of 6 Open Source Projects, which are maintained and developed by internal teams (between 2 and 40 people), as well as large ecosystems of contributors. 
As a Project Operator, you will tackle some of IPFS’s highest priority initiatives using your flexible problem solving abilities. You’ll be responsible for identifying the project’s most important problems, structuring them, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to come to a solution. Day-to-day, you’ll be taking on these problems using a wide-ranging toolkit developed from your previous experiences, from data analysis and speaking with industry experts to market segmentation and sizing, providing the IPFS team with the versatility and creative thinking it needs to accelerate reaching its goals. You’ll also help create processes and tools that enable Protocol Labs’s unique culture of innovation, collaboration, and performance in the IPFS team.

In Project Management at Protocol Labs, you might…

    • Lead the solutioning of high value / high context problems; these projects will generally be around decision support, ecosystem growth, and project governance
    • Build and analyze datasets for decision support, market describing, sizing and segmentation
    • Develop Protocol Labs’s expertise in understanding value created and value harnessed in open source software
    • Drive domain expertise in key areas of Project Operations support by codifying best practices and creating scalable playbooks for future projects / Project Operations to follow
    • Create and maintain complex plans using various project management tools, helping initiatives stay on track to meet their quarterly or annual targets
    • Assist in project reorganization and team management
    • Set and track metrics / KPIs for various efforts across IPFS
    • Help manage IPFS’s internal and external communications programs
    • Track and advise on interdependencies between IPFS working groups
    • Help run communications for our network of external experts 
    • And much more!

You may be a fit for this role if you…

    • You get a kick out of aligning first principle thinking and data insights to achieve great results
    • Handle both complexity and ambiguity well
    • Familiarity and passion for open source, and distributed computing
    • Have experience running your own startup or high-growth organization, or have experience in management consulting or corporate strategy 
    • Pride yourself in being a self-starter, thriving even without much direction
    • Deep experience coordinating work across teams with different goals
    • A rigorous, process-driven work style backed by an ability to communicate effectively
    • Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills

Bonus points:

    • Experience with open source communities / projects
    • Experience with distributed orgs
    • Background in software engineering
What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?
Protocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.
As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.
We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.