Program Manager

About Status

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.

With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.

As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.

As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).

As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. 

We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

The role

The Program Manager role will be responsible for the overall product strategy, delivery, coordination and tracking of all projects, programs, and initiatives. This will include developing and creating project plans, resource plans, risk identification, risk mitigation, timelines; and partnering with business and technology partners to increase productivity and opportunities for our work to benefit the adoption of blockchain technology.

Responsibilities

• Oversee (as a champion and advocate) all of the products developed and collaborate with engineering and design teams on product delivery and realization


• Manage and maintain excellent working relationships with development teams. Focus on collaboration, brainstorming and communication in a humble posture of learning


• Effectively communicate and manage from concept to execution. Generated detailed user flows, confirm full understanding of requirements, agree deliverables and critical milestones and dependencies


• Collaborate with Marketing and BD to identify user profiles, help develop product strategy and go-to market.


• Develop a rolling 12 month roadmap with a prioritized backlog of critical user journeys

Requirements

• 6-10+ years Product Management experience, ideally at the platform level across mobile, web, libraries, and infrastructure


• Experience coaching, motivating, and giving feedback to a large team of distributed developers


• Able to assimilate, sort and aggregate complex information quickly


• Comfortable communicating with a diverse, mostly remote team

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this role is $90,000 - $120,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process.) 

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Hiring process

The hiring process for this role will be:

1. Interview with Pepper from our Talent team


2. Interview with Corey Program Lead, Logos team


3. Interview with Jessie, Program Manager, Logos team.


4. Interview with Carl, Status Co-founder

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

Get to know us

Find out about the Logos team here.

We care deeply about open source software, and our organizational structure does away with a strict hierarchy and fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organisation’s priorities.

• We are Remote and Decentralized.


• We are 150+ employees spread across 30+ different countries

We are driven by shared principles and believe in complete transparency. That’s why everything we do is completely public to the entire community.