Technical Project Manager

Category Labs (formerly known as Monad Labs) is a team of systems engineers and researchers on a mission to design and build at the frontier of decentralized technology. We strive to design and build step-function improvements over existing blockchain solutions. After raising $225M in series A funding, led by Paradigm, we are growing our team, laser-focused on delivering the first client for the Monad blockchain.

The Role

We are looking for a Technical Project Manager who will drive operational efficiency across the engineering team.

What You Will Do

• Work with engineering teams, leadership and outside stakeholders to drive product deliverables and quality best practices

• Collaborate with engineering leadership to understand, prioritize, and resource product deliverables. Creation, organization and follow-up of tickets will be a large part of the role.

• Champion best practices for communication and collaboration in an engineering and research environment

• Identify and improve existing engineering processes that could optimization or better rigor

• Anticipate and proactively mitigate blockers (for both engineering progress and communication)

• Own end-to-end release management including versioning, patch notes, configuration documentation, and stakeholder communications to ensure safe and timely releases with zero surprises

Who You Are

• High intelligence - ability to pick up technical concepts quickly is incredibly valuable

• High EQ and strong communication skills - you should be able to tactfully navigate inefficiencies and maximize productivity amongst engineers

• 3+ years of establishing and managing programs or managing projects in a successful technology company

• 2+ years of experience in process improvement (i.e. identifying and fixing issues in processes, implementing effective communication practices that maximize line of sight)

• Stellar attention to detail and highly organized

• Familiarity with agile practices and frameworks, particularly scrum and kanban (we use GitHub issues)

• Desire to fill critical knowledge gaps around the firm and organize / improve existing knowledge resources

• High degree of comfort working with highly technical teams (DevOps, research, engineering). You should be able to understand the technical documentation found at https://docs.monad.xyz/.

• Interest in blockchain / web3 / crypto, with a desire for continued learning

• Vendor management experience

• Degree in a math, science or engineering field is helpful

Why Work with Us

• Challenging problems. You’ll work on extremely challenging problems with massive impact.

• Huge opportunity. The Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) standard is ubiquitous, but existing EVM-compatible chains are very slow. Monad’s core innovations offer developers the best of both worlds (portability and performance) and are a game-changer for mass user adoption in crypto. Some of our recent blog posts highlight designing new mechanisms from first principles that uniquely suit Monad.

• The right team. You’ll be part of a small, exceptional team.

• Culture. We’re a lean team working together to achieve very ambitious goals. We are united in our culture of collaboration, low egos, and high-quality outputs. As an early member of our team, you’ll help to shape our culture.

• Compensation. You’ll receive a competitive salary and equity package.

• Resources and growth. We’re well-capitalized, with backing from leading venture funds like Paradigm, Electric Capital, Greenoaks, Dragonfly, and Coinbase Ventures. We keep a lean team, and this is a rare opportu