Technical Chief of Staff

The role:

IFT has expanded significantly over the past few years, and we are looking to add an experienced Technical Chief of Staff to our leadership team. This is a high level role to support the Co-Founders, drive execution amongst the organisation and ensure that our Co-Founders can focus on the high-level strategy, communications and vision.

As Technical Chief of Staff you will be the right hand person to the Co-founders in supporting operational strategy and execution across each of our projects (Status, Logos, Nomos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Keycard). This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role. You’re a competent, action oriented individual contributor with exceptional EQ; comfortable dealing with ambiguity and have a reputation for being a “fixer”. The ideal candidate comes with the ability to tackle all day to day operational tasks including the complexities of cross functional relationships and conflict resolution. Due to working closely with the Co-founders, the majority of your work will be conducted within the European time zone.

Responsibilities:

• Support Co-Founders by extracting key information from meetings and written updates, ensuring that action items are recorded, planned and ultimately executed upon.
• Ensure a structured decision making process is followed for organisational decisions.
• Consistency in handling day to day operations as a proxy for the CoFounders.
• Mediator of any conflict between teams, facilitating productive communication & resolution
• Handle any administrative issues/tasks (internal system approvals, budgets, etc)
• Help align a globally remote, asynchronous workforce.
• End goal of alignment & achieving buy-in across the org, through observation, listening and connecting with our teams to understand priorities / pain points

Requirements:

• Superb communicator, in all styles (via meetings, presentations, 1:1s, emails, DMs)
• Low ego - can adapt style to suit a multitude of audiences
• High level of Technical competency
• Demonstrated, high emotional intelligence & diplomacy
• Able to build trust / rapport quickly; empathetic yet assertive, listening, understanding, creating solidarity across our organisation.
• Business oriented with ability to focus on big picture strategy, but also to zoom into intricate detail
• Philosophical alignment. See: Principles and ideology
• Managerial experience
• Bias to action, and getting things done.

Experience required:

• Web3 background
• FOSS experience