Developer Relations (Grants Team)

About NEAR And The NEAR Collective

NEAR's purpose is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world and its mission is to accelerate the adoption of Open Technologies. The NEAR platform, which launched in 2020, provides a decentralised application platform that is secure enough to manage high value assets like money or identity and performant enough to make them useful for everyday people, putting the power of Open Finance and the Open Web in their hands.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Help establish the NEAR Foundation among developers as the most accessible, high calibre source for grants in Web3
• Build close relationships with developers across different geographies, identities, and experience levels
• Screen incoming grant applications for technical fit on NEAR, providing recommendations to applicants as needed
• Liaise with dev teams within NEAR Collective to stay on top of the latest tech developments
• Support grant applicants through screening → launch → growth stages by connecting them with relevant teams at NEAR and projects within the broader NEAR ecosystem
• Work with the Education team to promote educational grant opportunities, facilitate workshops, and support hackathons

What We're Looking For:

• Demonstrated experience in developer advocacy/evangelism and education
• Passion for democratising access to Open Technologies through Web3 accessibility in underserved communities
• Community focus and open-source mindset
• Experience working with online and in-person developer communities
• High emotional intelligence and collaborative spirit

We'd Love If You Have:

• Previous or continued involvement in open source communities, especially with students
• Familiarity with other crypto or blockchain technologies
• Experience building out operational processes within a startup

Location: Anywhere in Europe

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Working at NEAR: Roles are posted to this portal on behalf of the companies that make up the NEAR Collective and are typically located anywhere in the world because most of the companies are fully remote. Some hubs are located in Switzerland, Germany, Russia, the US and China. Regardless of where you work, this is a high performance culture that values ownership, execution and professionalism but pairs it with curiosity and experimentation. The vision is big but the right team is behind it.

About The Role:

NEAR Protocol is a developer-first blockchain that emphasises convenience and speed of development on the NEAR Platform while minimising the entrance barrier for developers coming from the blockchain ecosystem, as well as regular web and mobile development space.

As the Developer Marketing Manager, your focus is to inspire developers to build on the NEAR Platform. You’ll promote the NEAR Developer Platform brand externally, scoping and executing on go-to-market strategies for programs and campaigns that bring external developers to the platform. You will drive participation across the developer community and encourage the adoption of prioritised use cases. You will be responsible for creating the developer marketing strategy, work on outreach channels of social media, content marketing, email campaigns and blogs. You’ll create developer rewards programs and grow our developer community via sponsored events and meetups.