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Gauntlet leads the field in quantitative research and optimization of DeFi economics. We manage market risk, optimize growth, and ensure economic safety for protocols facilitating the majority of spot trading, borrowing, and lending activity across all of DeFi, protecting and optimizing the largest protocols and networks in the industry. As of January 2024 Gauntlet manages risk and incentives covering over $13 billion in customer TVL.Gauntlet continually publishes cutting-edge research that informs our risk models, alerts, and analysis, and is among the most cited institution — including academic institutions — in terms of peer-reviewed papers addressing DeFi as a subject. We’re a Series B company with around 60 employees, operating remote-first with a home base in New York City.Gauntlet’s mission is to <b>drive adoption and understanding in the financial systems of the future</b>. Building with decentralized systems creates novel challenges for mechanism designers, smart contract developers, and end-users of financial products, which are not seen in traditional software development and investing contexts. Gauntlet is dedicated to enhancing our industry’s understanding of this new domain, and revealing how to safely navigate the true bleeding edge of 21st century financial innovation.Our extremely passionate team works tirelessly to bridge the gap for data-driven insights and analytical research in collateralized blockchain protocols. We strive to maintain an atmosphere that fosters innovation and new ideas through collaboration, research, and deep discussion to meet our customer's needs to grow and manage incentives better!In order to grow our impact in the DeFi space, we are looking to hire an experienced, crypto-native Governance actor to support Gauntlet’s increasing delegate activities. This role will be an active participant in the DAOs where Gauntlet is a delegate – ongoing forum participation, maintaining exemplary voting and communication rates, and joining delegate calls or other DAO-related events, among other things. This role will also actively seek out opportunities for new delegation and proactively identify potential revenue opportunities that align with Gauntlet’s business.<h3>Responsibilities</h3><ul><ul><li>Develop an intricate understanding of the DAOs where Gauntlet is, or becomes a delegate.</li><li>Active forum participation – commenting on proposals and other DAO-wide conversations.</li><li>Internal collaboration around decision-making for on and off-chain votes.</li><li>Ensure Gauntlet maintains a 100% voting and participation rate.</li><li>Proactively identify revenue opportunities that identify with Gauntlet’s product suite.</li><li>Actively seek increased and net new delegation.</li><li>Maintain active reporting on decided-upon metrics for internal tracking.</li><li>Work cross-functionally as needed with Data Science, Product, and Engineering</li><li>Maintain a pulse and viewpoint on emerging trends in DeFi and adjacent industries.</li></ul></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><ul><ul><li>Demonstrated DeFi native governance/DAO experience.</li><li>Deep understanding of the DeFi landscape and emerging trends.</li><li>Comfortable working cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Finance teams to ensure successful outcomes.</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills.</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail and ability to prioritize.</li><li>Ability to operate autonomously and across multiple time zones.</li><li>You have an analytical background.</li></ul></ul><h3>Bonus Points</h3><ul><ul><li>You have a crypto-native network</li><li>You’ve served as a delegate in a large DAO, participated in a blockchain club, or professional delegate.</li><li>You’ve served as a governance lead for your organization in a blue-chip protocol.</li><li>You’ve held positions on grants councils, or similar.</li><li>You have a technical or mathematical background and are able to disseminate technical topics to non-technical audiences</li></ul></ul><h3>Benefits and Perks</h3><ul><ul><li>Remote first - work from anywhere in the US & CAN!</li><li>Regular in-person company retreats and cross-country "office visit" perk</li><li>100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees</li><li>Laptop, monitor, keyboard and mouse setup provided</li><li>$1,000 WFH stipend</li><li>Monthly reimbursement for home internet, phone, and cellular data</li><li>Unlimited vacation</li><li>100% paid parental leave of 12 weeks</li><li>Fertility benefits</li><li>Opportunity for incentive compensation</li></ul></ul><b>Please note at this time our hiring is reserved for potential employees who are able to work within the contiguous United States and Canada. Should you need alternative accommodations, please note that in your application.</b><i>The national pay range for this role is $120,000 base plus additional On Target Earnings potential by level and equity in the company. Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for a company of our size and industry, and are one part of many compensation, benefits and other reward opportunities we provide. Individual pay rate decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skill set, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company.  </i>#LI-Remote

Governance Development

OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for <a href="https://opensea.io/blog/guides/non-fungible-tokens/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">non-fungible tokens</a>, or NFTs. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. OpenSea is an open, inclusive web3 platform, where individuals can come to explore NFTs and connect with each other to purchase and sell NFTs. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a platform that supports a brand new economy based on true digital ownership and are proud to be recognized as  <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies#private_companies" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Y Combinator's #4</a> ranked top private company.When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. We also know how critical it is to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. To help facilitate this, we support remote, hybrid or onsite work at either New York City, San Francisco or the Silicon Valley for the majority of our opportunities.Working closely with product and design, we’re looking for a User Researcher to plan, conduct, analyze, and communicate user insights. In this role, you will serve as a strategic research partner to help influence product decisions in our nascent space of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web3. If you’re excited about the opportunity to build and shape the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors, welcome to OpenSea. <h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul><ul><li>Scope, plan, conduct, analyze, and communicate insights from mixed-methods research, including in-depth interviews, usability testing, concept testing, surveys, field research, jobs to be done and other methods, as needed</li><li>Transform stakeholder questions into actionable research plans</li><li>Evangelize your insights across teams and influence product and strategy decisions</li><li>Collaborate daily with peers across disciplines, including product, design, engineering, and other teams</li>If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team.</ul></ul><h3>Desired Skills</h3><ul><ul><li>4+ years of user research experience, preferably with experiences where you have been the lead user research</li><li>Demonstrated history of conducting research within a product team and shipping products that have been influenced by your insights</li><li>Ability to drive and own the user research process using various research methods end-to-end</li><li>Experience collaborating and partnering strategically with Product, Design, and other partners to influence product decisions</li></ul></ul><h3>Nice to Have</h3><ul><ul><li>Personal or professional experience in crypto, NFTs, DeFi, and/or Web3</li></ul></ul>

Sr. User Researcher

OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for <a href="https://opensea.io/blog/guides/non-fungible-tokens/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">non-fungible tokens</a>, or NFTs. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. OpenSea is an open, inclusive web3 platform, where individuals can come to explore NFTs and connect with each other to purchase and sell NFTs. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a platform that supports a brand new economy based on true digital ownership and are proud to be recognized as  <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies#private_companies" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Y Combinator's #4</a> ranked top private company.When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. We also know how critical it is to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. To help facilitate this, we support remote, hybrid or onsite work at either New York City, San Francisco or the Silicon Valley for the majority of our opportunities.Working closely with Product, Design, Legal, and User Researchers, we’re looking for a Senior Content Designer to craft and drive the evolution OpenSea’s product language. In this role, you would help simplify and communicate the complex ideas and process of our nascent space of DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and Web3. If you’re excited about the opportunity to build and shape the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors, welcome to OpenSea. <h3>What You'll Do</h3><ul><ul><li>Design, write, edit, test and improve content that makes our products easier to use—this includes product flows, interface language, education and help center materials, product names, navigational nomenclature, terminology, taxonomies and other content across OpenSea’s products and experiences</li><li>Drive the evolution of OpenSea’s product language and create documentation to provide guidelines to Product and Design</li><li>Give and solicit feedback from your UX design peers in service of building the best products</li><li>Contribute to projects in ways that enhance the clarity and usability of product experiences</li><li>Identify problems you can help solve and deliver on them</li><li>Edit and contribute to designs, content, and OpenSea’s design system in Figma</li><li>Collaborate daily with peers across disciplines, including Engineering, Design, Research, Marketing, and Legal</li><li>Proven systems thinking, with aptitude for learning our technical systems and the Web3 space</li><li>UX writing and communication experience</li>If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box, and we're looking for someone who is excited to join the team.</ul></ul><h3>Desired Skills</h3><ul><ul><li>4+ years of experience writing and designing content for web or mobile product experiences</li><li>Are adept at simplifying and communicating complex ideas and process (e.g. crypto and NFTs) to broad audiences</li><li>Have a strong portfolio showcasing the successful implementation of content design</li><li>You’re excited about the opportunity to build and shape the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors</li></ul></ul><h3>Nice to Have</h3><ul><ul><li>Experience and/or passion for crypto</li><li>Experience in product design and/or visual design</li></ul></ul>

Sr. Content Designer

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Circle

<p>Circle is seeking a Lead Product Manager, Token within the Arc product team to define and lead the exploration of utility token opportunities for the Arc ecosystem. This individual will help Circle shape the economic model, governance framework, and feature design of a potential native token on the Arc network.You will work cross-functionally with Product, Business, Engineering, Data, Treasury, Legal, and Policy teams as we explore potential token design mechanisms — from validator and staking models to community participation, incentive structures, and governance evolution.This role sits at the intersection of economics, onchain governance, and ecosystem design, and is central to Circle’s vision for a new financial internet.</p>

Lead Product Manager, Token

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Job Title	Company Name	Salary	Location	Tags
Lead Product Manager, Token	Circle	172k-225k/year		Product ManagerWeb3DAOFinance
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