Developer Relations & Ecosystem Manager

The Valory Mission

Valory is building a network platform for developers to build novel decentralised applications which have radically different and superior off-chain components to facilitate uniquely autonomous services.

Crypto has hit a stumbling block in its march towards a decentralised and superior digital economy for the mainstream. Applications are either built as overly simplistic smart contract-based apps or as fully web2-based. This is because developers lack the substrate for building more dynamic, robust, and open applications.

That’s where we come in. We’re a team of world-class experts across multiple fields (including software engineers, researchers, and product), looking for talented individuals to help push crypto/blockchain services into the next frontier using agent-based systems.

We’re well-funded, exiting stealth mode & keen to turbocharge our trajectory by building a great community of developers.

Role

You’re a strong communicator and community-builder with a technical background and professional engineering experience. You’ll enjoy the opportunity to develop initiatives for involving developers and building the community at the heart of our exciting new network.

• Recruit, inspire and manage contributors to further strengthen and multiply apps in our ecosystem
• Setup and refine the Contributor Experience along with our Community Manager
• Integrate with other functions – community, product, engineering – to maximise community awareness and interaction

Duties include:

• Run Agent Dev School – an early education and ecosystem program set to build the initial cohort of passionate developers
• Develop and execute campaigns to target and attract new developers to build on Valory
• Listen to and keep track of developers’ requirements and feedback learnings to founders, technical + product teams
• Seek new and more effective ways to communicate our platforms’ benefits to developers
• Write long and short form content to inform, educate and entertain on our blog, Twitter, Discord and other channels e.g. documentation
• Assist in early and ongoing customer development

Requirements

• Appreciation of ‘cultivation’ mindset – communities are not built top-down
• Evidence of strategic thinking
• Professional experience as a developer
• 1+ years of experience in developer relations role, ideally at a crypto project
• Appreciation for the utility of memes in effectively spreading complex ideas
• Able to stay responsive with inbound communications
• Crisp written and verbal communication skills in English
• Bonus: Strong awareness of how different crypto projects have fostered different types and qualities of ecosystem, including via grants and at the token economic/incentive level
• Bonus: ability to conjure memes of the dankest quality (uberdank)
• Bonus: experience in running grants programs for a crypto project
• Strong preference for time zone between Western Europe and India (UTC -2 to +6)

Equal opportunity

We are an equal opportunity workplace. We value all people, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to promoting equality of opportunity.

We respect the wishes of individuals to protect their anonymity online and encourage individuals who operate under pseudonyms to apply.

The Opportunity

• Generous salary ($45k - $82k) and equity compensation
• Remote (Valory is a fully distributed team from day one)
• Be a part of a unique and novel project which will push crypto forward and travel into whichever domains crypto goes – finance, media, data, identity, etc.
• You will be given an extra buffer on top of your salary which you can use for whichever benefits you need.
• You will work on a unique software stack and product with a team of world-class software engineers, researchers, and product experts across multiple fields (multi-agent systems, cryptography, and economics).
• You will collaborate with teams across DeFi and our community of agent developers.
• You will redefine how developers build off-chain services in DeFi and long into crypto’s future.