Team Assistant in Ecosystem & Business Development

Parity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, having built and pioneered some of the most advanced technologies in the blockchain sector. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellow paper. 

Based in Berlin, London, and Lisbon with over 340 employees worldwide, Parity has built clients for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash and has pioneered a completely new, next-generation blockchain protocol with Polkadot and the framework it’s built with, Substrate. Parity builds the open-source technologies needed to power an unstoppable, decentralised web—known as Web3—and helps developers and organisations implement and build upon the Web3 tech stack.

About the team:

As Team Assistant in Ecosystem & Business Development, you will report to the Operations team and work closely with the Ecosystem & Business Development team. You will support the execution of the team’s projects on an operational level, while providing daily assistance with administrative tasks. We’re looking for someone who’s enthusiastic, a team player, well-organised, experienced, and who’s able to wear multiple hats—all while assisting the team with a wide range of strategic projects.

About the position:

Your duties will include but are not limited to:

• Call scheduling cross-teams (calendar coordination, notes, reminders)
• Travel and Event support (team retreats, company events, conferences)
• Support with administrative and logistics tasks (invoices, orders, workplace processes)
• Subscription management (inventory, process implementation)
• Documentation - ensure information is well organized, saved, and deleted
• Communication - create more bridges between teams as an internal point of contact, acting as a strong bridge between Operations and Ecosystem Operations team.
• Onboarding support - welcoming Ecosystem Development new joiners, introduce department structure and basic company processes
• Team administration - recording departmental structure changes, keeping team directory and organizational chart up-to-date, maintaining strong working relationship with the People Partner to discuss team’s needs

About you:

Requirements

• 2+ years of administrative/operational/office support/executive assistant experience
• Outstanding organization skills and capacity to work with a multitude of stakeholders
• Attention to detail and high level of professionalism with administrative tasks
• Rigorous attitude and capacity to handle processes in a complex business environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with English (near-native level)
• Self-confidence and ability to deal with various personalities within the team
• Service-oriented mindset and open attitude to questions and requests
• Empathy, being able to acknowledge the feelings and perspective of others
• Flexibility and adaptability in fast-changing and autonomous environments
• Autonomous and self-independent working style, being able to take initiatives and make decisions quickly
• Tech-savviness and ability to use different tools powering remote collaboration and asynchronous collaboration

Nice-to-haves

• Blockchain and Web3 knowledge - technical skills are not required, but candidates should be familiar with blockchain technologies and the general principles of Web3
• A creative mind with an ability to suggest and implement improvements

About working for us:

For everyone who joins us:

• Competitive remuneration packages, including tokens (where legally possible), based on iterative market research.
• A culture where efforts and initiatives are noticed and rewarded, and your career goals are taken seriously. We’re focused on talent, not titles.
• A global work environment that’s collaborative, fast-paced, and self-initiating—perfect for doers who want to envision ideas and execute on them rapidly.
• Frequent company and team retreats to connect with colleagues in real life.
• Work from home or co-work in our office hubs in Berlin, London, or Lisbon.
• Opportunity to learn more about Web3 while on the job, with access to some of the brightest minds in this space; we have plenty of educational initiatives such as internal sessions, all-hands, AMAs, hackathons, etc.
• Teammates who are genuinely excited about their job, impact, and Parity’s mission.

For those joining us as employees in Germany, Portugal, or the U.K.:

• 28 paid vacation days per year.
• Work laptop (macOS or Linux-based) and equ