Director, Ecosystem Development

This is a commercially engaged role, working intimately with our founders and eventually our VC partners.

Since the inception of the Acala project our founding team have been inspired by a future vision of blockchain built upon values of inclusion, empowerment & guidance. To that end we have launched a $100m Ecosystem Accelerator Program [EAP] to find, nurture and advise the next generation of DeFi projects that are currently under development, and in need of support.

Anyone can build and deploy on Acala and find adequate guidance through our self-service support model of technical documentation and open source code. But the level of support that our EAP will provide also covers; Technical mentorship; Architectural assistance; Engineering support; Growth & Marketing aid; Funding advice; Head-hunting help and anything else that the Acala Team can offer.

As EA Lead you will source and evaluate a pipeline of incubator projects and help us to determine the most promising. To succeed you'll need two things; Intimate knowledge of blockchain, including where and how to find emerging crypto projects; A background in partnership building, including financial and legal due diligence. You'll be reviewing DeFi projects' documentation on a daily basis, and then driving Acala's engagement with them.

We currently evaluate 3-5 projects per month, although most are unsuitable. But following the launch of our EVM on Polkadot (Q2'22) we expect an order of magnitude increase. Our ideal candidate will have run a partnership program of this scale before, possibly for an Academic Institute and will be able to discuss the necessary funnel-building and filtering techniques at interview stages.

NB: For the fastest response to any of our positions, apply directly on our website: acala.network/jobs. For more information on this position, our employment conditions, or anything related to working for Acala, get in touch with our Talent Manager: [email protected]

With approximately 40 full-time team members working across 8 different countries, our team is truly decentralised. We’re some of the leading blockchain innovators, Substrate & Rust engineers, full-stack dApp developers, & Economist Analysts. But we're just people like you, working from our shared desire for a fairer and more inclusive financial system, in direct contrast to the clear shortcomings of the current institutions that run our world.

The community we’re building is shaped by our values and fuelled by the needs of all humans:

- Inclusion, Care, Trust, and Respect

- Empowerment

- Guidance and Support

- Friendship, Community, Real Relationships

We’re building Acala based on a core set of values we believe are in line with the tenets of web3:

- True decentralisation

- Less Trust, More Truth

- Integrity

- Accountability

- Empowering individuals with more autonomy

Acala was founded in 2019 as an early Web3 Foundation grant recipient, and is an ecosystem and education partner of both the W3F and Polkadot. Throughout 2021 we have proven ourselves to be the DeFi hub(s) of the Polkadot Ecosystem & Community by securing the first crowdloan-funded parachain slots on both the Polkadot & Kusama blockchain networks. But even at this, our true work has only just begun...

NOTE: To all external Recruiters who have 'exciting profiles' to share with us, please do so knowing that without signed terms & conditions Acala deem any introductions made to be a complimentary courtesy to the development of the world's Web3 infrastructure. Thank you for your support.