Description
About the Founder Success Team
Our Founder Success Team is a dedicated group with a singular focus: making developers successful on NEAR. We believe that a delightful developer experience is the cornerstone for widespread adoption. We work in close partnership with our product, engineering, marketing, and community teams to deliver tools, resources, and support that enable developers to seamlessly integrate NEAR into their apps and products.
Role Overview
As a Project Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving the execution and impact of strategic initiatives across the NEAR ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of project delivery, ecosystem growth, and partnership enablement, ensuring that technical and operational efforts translate into real developer adoption. Beyond execution, you will be deeply involved in developer ecosystem growth—identifying, enabling, and nurturing key partnerships to attract and retain high-quality developers. To succeed in this role, you’ll need a strong technical background, experience in project or program management, and a strategic mindset for ecosystem growth. You should be comfortable navigating both high-level strategy and hands-on execution, bridging gaps between teams, and ensuring that initiatives not only launch but also drive tangible developer engagement and adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Project Coordination & Delivery
- Oversee and drive the execution of key initiatives across NEAR ecosystem nodes, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Collaborate with technical teams to understand roadmaps, identify potential blockers,
and ensure smooth execution of projects.
- Establish and refine project management frameworks,
improving efficiency and transparency across teams.
- Track project progress,
report key metrics,
and ensure timely delivery of milestones.
Founder Success & Developer Growth Support
- Support the Founder Success team’s operations,
helping manage workflows,
optimize processes,
and ensure seamless execution of initiatives.
- Enable developer growth efforts,
ensuring that projects are well-coordinated
and resources are effectively utilized to attract
and retain developers.
- Identify
and address gaps in developer engagement
and adoption strategies,
providing data-driven insights to improve outcomes.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Act as a central point of contact between engineering,
marketing,
and community teams to ensure ecosystem-wide coordination.
- Work closely with leadership to align project goals with the broader NEAR strategy.
- Facilitate communication
and collaboration between internal teams
and external partners
to accelerate innovation
and adoption.
Who Can Succeed in This Role
At NEAR we value diverse backgrounds
and paths to success. Whether you come from project management,
software development,
operations or ecosystem growth you should bring:
Technical & Operational Expertise
- A technical background (experience in software development blockchain or similar fields).
- Familiarity with developer tools APIs
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Project Management & Coordination Skills
Experience managing complex multi-stakeholder projects
in fast-paced environments.Strong organizational
Communication & Collaboration
Excellent stakeholder management skills
Qualifications
5+ years’ experience
Compensation & Application
This is a contract position
We value
ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put
NEAR is an affirmative action