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🏆 A Bored Ape, a Doodle and the FBI walk into a bar

Hello from the Local Boys—your weekly inside scoop on who's hiring, who's getting funded, and how to get a job in web3.

February 08, 2023

Hello from the Local Boys—your weekly inside scoop on who's hiring, who's getting funded, and how to get a job in web3.

This week's rundown:

  • 🔥 Freshly Posted Jobs

  • 🔮 Don't Do Your Taxes

  • 🌱 Startup Funding

  • 📚 Hot Reads

But first...how you doin'?

FRESH JOBS 

Open roles that dropped this week (remote-based unless otherwise noted).

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

🥳 Business Development Specialist 💸 Unknown, Alchemy Pay → If you get hyped on building relationships and love to chat crypto, this may be the right role for you. Help Alchemy Pay build their community and scale their payments product and you could quickly rise through their ranks.

PRODUCT & ENGINEERING

🏆 Product Manager 💸 $80k-140k, Compound → Own Compound's Treasury product from vision to post-launch. Founded in 2017 and backed by big-name investors, Compound is one of those DeFi-focused companies that's in it for the long haul.

😎 Web Engineer, Crypto 💸 $80k-160k, Robinhood → Join Robinhood in NY, CA, or WA to be a core member of the Transfers team within the larger Crypto organization. Here you'll be the wizard behind the magic of sending crypto to and from Robinhood.

🧩 Product Design Director 💸 $207k-310k, OKCoin → I mean...did you see the salary? Here you'll be responsible for building and leading the product design team in order to level up OkCoin's global products. This role reports directly to the CEO. Spend your nights and weekends dreaming up how to spend your extra cash.

🚢 Smart Contract Lead 💸 Unknown, Li.Fi → Lead Solidity devs and work closely with the CTO to define smart contract architecture and manage deployments. You best know the blockchain world for this one.

🌞 Senior Front-End Engineer 💸 $135k-200k+, Messari → Messari is the leading provider of crypto market intelligence, helping people navigate crypto/web3 with confidence. With mega clout in the space and a variety of products to work on, this role is all gas, no brakes.

MARKETING

💽 Email Marketing Manager 💸 $50k-100k, Qredo → If you enjoy email journeys half as much as we like Trader Joe's snacks, this role is for you. Qredo offers decentralized digital asset management software for institutional investors so...let's just say the perks are good.

👾 Social Media Manager 💸 $60k-120k, Zerion → Ready to be "Chief of Vibes"? This is a unique hybrid role between Zerion's Community and Growth teams. The goal? Provide a world-class community experience for Zerion's 400k+ monthly active users while also growing your personal brand.

🎨 Social Community Manager 💸 $110k-130k, Never Forget This → (N)ever (F)orget (T)his is an interactive web3 docuseries dedicated to telling human stories of NFT and Web3 innovation and asking what comes next. Join this hyper-creative team and scale their audience while flexing your own artistic chops.

Together with TurboTax

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It's always...

FUNDING SZN

Every week we give you a rundown of companies with recent investment activity. Why? Because $$$ means growth and growth means new team members. Hop into this list and do some outreach. You might nail a job that's not yet posted.

  • Fungify: $6m Unknown Round. Instant NFT sales, loans on-chain, and other fun(gible) things.

  • Addressable: $7.5m Seed Round. Web3 marketers' jobs might get a little easier with cross-platform analytics and audience-building power. Interest: piqued.

  • Everscale: $5m Strategic Round. A scalable network to grow the L1 scene with near-zero fees.

  • Sec3: $10m Seed Round. Security research firm for Solana projects. Oh, Solana.

  • Sovereign: $7.4m Seed Round. Rollups on rollups. Ushering forth interoperability in web3.

  • Oh Baby Games: $6m Seed Round. A new game with collectibles. Feel like testing out their first approach? Alpha is currently out (tell us all about it 👀🧃).

HOT READS

3️⃣ Listen: The Ultimate Get-Sh*t Done Playlist.

4️⃣ A comeback story reminding us that layoffs aren't reflective of our worth.

5️⃣ True-crime report: A crypto scammer under the name of "Horror" has been exposed and now the FBI has a collection of his goodies including a Bored Ape, a Doodle NFT, 87 ETH, and a $40k watch.

That's a wrap. See ya next week!

🖤 Your Local Boys (local to the internet of things)

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