Electric Coin Company Careers

Our mission at Electric Coin Co. is to empower economic freedom, and to that end, we created and launched the Zcash digital currency in 2016. Today — along with other independent teams and developers — we continue to support the Zcash community through product development, awareness and adoption, and cutting-edge research initiatives.

We engage in a variety of media and social media channels to communicate with a wide audience, educate, maintain transparency, and broadcast our message to the world. To drive these initiatives, we are seeking a Communications and Community Manager who will help write and develop a steady stream of content, plus manage ECC’s social media presence with the goal of fostering a thriving online community.

The Communications and Community Manager will report to the Head of Growth Marketing and work closely with our Digital Marketing Lead and outside agencies.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the ECC marketing team to develop and release content that furthers the ECC mission and educates people about Zcash — e.g., videos, case studies, memes, web copy, and shareable assets.
• Stay on top of key industry trends, emerging social channels, and best practices.
• Create and manage an integrated content calendar for social media, blogs, newsletters, and misc. communications.
• Lead ongoing management of all social media in concert with Digital Marketing and other Growth stakeholders.
• Coordinate online events with ecosystem partners, such as Twitter Spaces, and occasionally attend ECC and/or industry events in person.
• Help coordinate ECC media interviews and appearances.
• Lead ongoing management of the ECC blog, including calendar, content gathering, recruiting guest bloggers, and posting content.
• Gather weekly insights about social media/community performance, highlighting top-performing content and low performing content and opportunities.
• Work with departmental leadership to produce a quarterly ECC transparency report.

We have few concrete requirements. We're flexible and looking for the right person, but intend to hire an engaging communicator and storyteller, a skilled editor, and a leader with demonstrated success in building compelling narratives and creative campaigns. This person will also have experience in growing strong social media communities. Crypto-native preferred.

We’re looking for someone who is excited by the following:

• Growing Zcash awareness and adoption.
• Improving the reputation of Zcash and ECC.
• Building community; connecting with new teams and personalities; and identifying standout influencers and stakeholders who are passionate about ECC, Zcash, and privacy.
• Engaging the world with fun, memorable content and campaigns.
• Growing an active social media presence and providing fast response times to relevant posts, inquiries, comments, industry news, etc.
• Highlighting current trends in the crypto and fintech spaces, and presenting ideas on how our team can implement and execute.

We have a strong ethos of professional conduct. This means you need the empathy and emotional intelligence to be a supportive colleague and collaborate well with people of widely different backgrounds, personalities, and skill sets.

Detailed Benefits ...

• Remote First Culture
• Full premiums paid for all US employees + dependents for all medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO
• Fun Fridays
• Option to participate in a 401k Plan
• The starting rate for this position begins at $80,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. The above starting rate represents ECC’s reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. This position is not eligible for overtime compensation. Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck and includes additional attractive incentive benefits such as a retention grant of ZEC coins.

At Electric Coin Company (ECC), we're on a mission to empower everyone with economic freedom and opportunity. We invented and support Zcash (ZEC), a privacy-preserving digital currency built on strong science. In support of our mission, ECC is focused on building a world class user experience for ZEC.

As our first Executive Head of Product you will shape the product strategy from ideation to execution. You will translate the company mission into a clear product vision. You will partner closely with our engineering and growth teams to operate as the bridge between them.

You are an executive with 5-10 years of commercial and product experience. You are confident in your abilities to lead a successful product launch as shown through your previous experience.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work with our Engineering and Growth teams to establish agile processes, frameworks, and tools to improve velocity, quality, and transparency.
• Develop the go-to-market strategy with growth, including messaging development, thought leadership strategy and content creation.
• Drive adoption by successfully executing narratives across various channels, including but not limited to events, marketing campaigns, and thought leadership.
• Identify product team objectives and key results to drive company goals
• Connect product functionality and metrics to the strategic objectives of the company overall. Align performance to the company’s north stars, and balance the company’s objectives with strategic and longer-term product development. Gather buy-in from other leaders in what we do and how it will grow the business
• Enhance product validation process to refine product market-fit that will drive deeper engagement for Zcash
• Build strong trust relationships internally and across the Zcash ecosystem with partners and users
• Drive organizational focus and alignment around product goals
• Conduct competitive analysis and maintain current information regarding competitive activity
• Synthesize complex products into structured and easy to digest content
• Partner with Product Marketing to bring visibility to the product and features

Product Strategy Duties

• Drive wallet and new application development from conceptualization through launch, designing a roadmap, workstream processes, and executing on them
• Participate in the user journey mapping and execution for the mobile wallet, gathering external and internal feedback in the process
• Ensure all stakeholders’ needs are aligned before finalizing the wallet roadmap
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams in order to determine what features to move forward and in what priority
• Build consensus with key partners to adjust the plan as needed
• Define requirements and ensure clear communication and coordination of requirements to all involved teams
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks before they become roadblocks
• Lead and conduct research on other mobile wallets in the space
• Manage all documentation creation for the mobile wallet, assuring it is clearly documented and easy to follow
• Provide engineers with support and guidance in accomplishing mobile wallet development
• Report progress and roadblocks to leadership at regular check-ins
• Research and implement tools necessary to streamline and automate mobile developer work as needed
• Manage a team of external mobile developer contractors
• Vocalize and work to remove inefficiencies in our current mobile wallet roadmap
• Run external and internal demos in order to showcase the development of the wallet and gather feedback from these calls

We have a few concrete requirements, but we're flexible and looking for the right person.

• Has strong grasp of product vision, strategy, and market
• 5-10 years of experience at the executive level
• Must have experience successfully leading and deploying an application with 1M + users.
• Ideal candidate has worked in the fintech space.
• Preference to those with experience in the crypto and blockchain space.

Why take this job? Why not join some other company? Here are a few reasons:

• Electric Coin Company is on a mission to give everyone on Earth an open, secure, and inclusive financial system through the power of exotic math.
• We believe in self-care. We commonly move meetings for colleagues' personal obligations. Your life comes first.
• Flexible work arrangements--live where you want and work remotely.
• Everything we do is open source.

Other benefits Include...

• Remote First Culture
• Full premiums paid for all US employees + dependents for all medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO
• Fun Fridays
• The starting rate for this position begins at $200,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. The above starting rate represents ECC’s reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. This position is not eligible for overtime compensation. Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck and includes additional attractive incentive benefits such as a retention grant of ZEC coins.

At Electric Coin Company, we're deploying next-generation technology at the intersection of privacy and financial systems. We have made great progress in building an engineering team from computer science and cryptography backgrounds. As we continue our commitment to the development of Zcash, we need to further our commitment to growing our engineering and product teams while enabling them to do their best work.

As our Director of Engineering, your first task will be to familiarize yourself with the engineering team and our core technology so you can help the team grow and thrive. The engineering team’s goal is to prioritize features that drive the most value, and the engineering leader will be responsible for validating ideas with other managers and ECC leadership. We’re looking for a collaborative, humble, self-starter who can come onboard and make an immediate impact.

Specifically, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing our core team (composed of software engineers & cryptographers) as well as our wallet team (mobile devs & ux designer). Being proficient in all of these technologies is not necessary, but a career history in an engineering org is highly desirable.

We have few concrete requirements. We're flexible, but we're looking for someone with experience managing engineering teams in a fast-paced, high-quality, distributed environment. The ideal candidate also has experience working with customer-focused product organizations. We are looking for someone who is extremely organized and has strong program management skills in an Agile environment; you never drop a ball. The ideal person for this position has experience growing teams to meet specific strategic needs, and has strong skill managing both upward and downward. Our engineers come from a variety of backgrounds so we need someone who has a very high emotional intelligence, is comfortable with extreme transparency while protecting privacy, and has a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.

A successful candidate for this position has strong process-building skills and has a proven record balancing on-time product delivery while also able to quickly pivot when priorities are changed. The individual in this role will be responsible for acting as a bridge between product, engineers, and leadership, and will be an advocate for engineering while managing expectations between those teams and leadership. The ideal candidate has proven experience managing distributed teams and is an effective communicator across multiple communication platforms.

Why take this job? Why not join some other company? Here are a few reasons:

• Electric Coin Company is on a mission to give everyone on Earth an open, secure, and inclusive financial system through the power of exotic math.
• We believe in self-care. We commonly move meetings for colleagues' personal obligations. Your life comes first.
• Everything we do is open source.

Other benefits Include...

• Remote First Culture
• Full premiums paid for all US employees + dependents for all medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible PTO
• Fun Fridays
• The beginning range for this position starts at $170,000

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. The above starting rate represents ECC’s reasonable estimate of compensation at the time of posting. This position is not eligible for overtime compensation. Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck and includes additional attractive incentive benefits such as a retention grant of ZEC coins.