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Dev Ops & SysAdmin
Technical Program Manager Dev Ops & SysAdmin
N/A 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | N/A 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $19.5M Venture Funding
What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?
What We’re Looking For
Edge & Node (E&N) is looking for a seasoned technical program manager to drive our product and software development process as we enter a new phase of organizational scaling and growth. E&N is the team behind The Graph, a decentralized protocol for querying open APIs called subgraphs, which already has hundreds of users and hundreds of millions of dollars in tokens participating in the protocol.
After successfully completing a public token sale last year and then launching the decentralized network, E&N has a renewed mandate to work aggressively towards The Graph’s vision and now we have the resources to get there. We are looking at doubling our full-time headcount this year as well as collaborating with dozens more external contributors, including external domain expert consultants, and members of The Graph’s open source community. This scaling will support countless new products, features, protocol improvements, and other R&D initiatives.
As Technical Program Manager you will own defining and executing upon the processes that will allow E&N to scale our organization while continuing to ship products, software, and protocols at the high level of quality that our community has come to love us for.
Responsibilities
- Own the software development process, including establishing meeting cadence, kicking-off and wrapping up sprints, running standups, and defining acceptance criteria and ownerships work that moves through the pipeline.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to map out dependencies, proactively identify bottlenecks, and facilitate smooth handoffs to deliver features on-time and to their original specification.
- Coordinate and participate in open-source working groups and make sure Edge & Node’s efforts are aligned with those of The Graph’s broader open source community.
- Work with leadership and product management to prioritize and plan new feature work.
- Work with engineering to architect new features and products and break large work items into smaller deliverables that can be tracked effectively.
- Proactively identify execution risk and ensure that the leadership team is setting realistic company milestones.
Desired skills
- Proven track record: You have managed multiple products through the process of ideation, design, development, shipping to users, and validation.
- Pragmatic: You know that the best process is the one that people actually use. You work tirelessly to find a process that introduces a minimal amount of overhead while protecting people’s time.
- Craftsmanship: You see an organization as a living system whose team structures and processes can be continuously refined and iterated upon. Process is your craft.
- Organized: You are borderline obsessive when it comes to organization. Others may think you make it look effortless, but you actually rigorously develop systems that allow you to track many small work items and details in parallel.
- Natural leader: You are effective at presenting your ideas, getting alignment across diverse stakeholders, and driving execution in a cross-functional environment.
- Team player: People love working with you and you make the people around you more effective. You take pride in being a force multiplier.
Strongly Recommended
- Builder: You have previous experience as a software engineer, are comfortable with tools and workflows like git, and are adept at whiteboarding sequence diagrams, component architectures, class diagrams, etc.
- Crypto Native: You have already “fallen down the crypto rabbit hole.” You are familiar with smart contracts, how decentralized applications are built, and how blockchains work.
About The Team
Edge & Node is a globally distributed team. We work hard, but our remote-first team affords a high degree of autonomy and flexibility. Our few scheduled meetings tend to be in the morning, pacific standard time (PST). Most of our team, even at the individual contributor level, has started companies or led large teams and it shows in the way that people manage their own productivity. We’re mission-oriented, and hold one another accountable with results rather than vanity metrics like time spent at your desk. If you need to book a vacation, or make a doctor’s appointment, go for an afternoon run, or even just get some fresh air, we trust you to use your time effectively.
Despite being remote-first, our team is fairly tight-knit and often feels like a family. You can expect quarterly offsites (once Covid permits) in different parts of the world, where we strategize as a team, brainstorm around a whiteboard, go on team outings, have spirited and varied conversations over wine, coffee, or kombucha, and get to know each other on a personal level. We value diversity and bringing your whole self to work, including your weird hobbies, unique life experiences, cultural traditions, obscure music tastes, and whatever else makes you you. In addition to offsites, you’ll have the option to travel to conferences and meetups around the world, where you’ll get to know individual teammates on a more personal level and also build relationships with our users and community.
We pay competitive salaries to all team members, based on level of contribution and country of residence, and offer generous health benefits to U.S. based employees.