Blockworks is hiring a
Protocol Services Analyst

Summary

The job is for a Protocol Services Analyst at Blockworks Research, a financial media brand focusing on digital assets. The role involves representing Blockworks as a protocol delegate, maintaining relationships with major stakeholders, facilitating protocol forums and votes, supporting service engagements, growing delegations under management, authoring applied research, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and continuously learning and sharing knowledge about the crypto industry.

Requirements

• You have a burning passion for the crypto industry
• You’re a crypto native who has worked directly with DAOs and deeply understands their challenges and perspectives, first hand
• You believe decentralized protocols are the future of human coordination
• You have a desire to help enable them to reach their full potential
• You are a regular around governance forums and intuitively understand how to authentically engage with protocols
• You’re a born networker and understand how to build consensus and create meaningful relationships
• You are a natural collaborator
• You understand how to deliver on service engagements that fit the needs of a protocol
• You collaborate and share learning by default, and you're always going out of your way to ensure you share relevant protocol initiatives with your team
• You enjoy communicating with our audience via Twitter, podcasts, and other mediums about the exciting work our team is doing

Responsibilities

• Represent Blockworks Research as a protocol delegate while creating and maintaining deep relationships with major stakeholders of the protocol
• Leverage your deep understanding of the crypto space to generate insightful discussions in the DAO that ultimately help inform the strategic direction of the protocol
• Facilitate Protocol Forums and Votes: You’ll proactively maintain a presence in protocol forums and ensure Blockworks Research maintains a 100% voting and forum participation rate
• Support Protocol Service Engagements: You'll use your knowledge and experience to assist in designing and executing major protocol service engagements while ensuring an extraordinary client experience
• Grow Protocol Delegations Under Management: You’ll actively identify and seek out new opportunities to increase Blockworks Research’s delegations under management for your covered protocols
• Author Applied Research: You'll partner with other members of the Research team to conduct deep and actionable research that provides unique insights and work to share and publicize the reports accordingly
• Collaborate with Internal and External Stakeholders: You’ll work cross-functionally with Blockworks Research’s internal teams, as well as with external stakeholders to derive informed, data-driven decisions on proposed protocol initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• You have previous experience executing protocol service engagements and understand the DAO service provider landscape
• You’ve served as a delegate in a professional or personal capacity, or have participated in a university blockchain club
• If you’ve held positions on a grants, risk, treasury, or similar council, we want to hear about it
• Lastly, if you have experience in a traditional consulting/advisory role with a track record of process optimization or have a mathematical background with a strong proficiency in python and quantitative modeling, it may set you apart from other candidates

Benefits

• Commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
• Remote first organization with an office in NYC for you to utilize as you please
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you + a significant portion covered for your dependents
• 401(k) plan
• Remote work-station stipend
• Learning stipend
• Team happy hours and outings (even while remote!)
• Generous vacation and holiday policy
• Commuter benefits