Technical Program Manager, Tokenization

About Republic

Republic is on a mission to create a more inclusive and efficient global financial system. We’ve built an on-chain investment platform that leverages cutting-edge financial infrastructure to redefine global accessibility and optimize capital efficiency. Our on-chain investment platform allows anyone to easily access private market investment and financing opportunities.

 

Since 2016, the Republic ecosystem has deployed over $2.6 billion in investments, has supported over 2,500 companies, and is comprised of a community of over 3M users across 150 countries. Republic is backed by dozens of leading investment firms and financial institutions and its affiliated entities have co-invested with the best names in venture and private equity. 

 

Founded in 2016, Republic is headquartered in New York City with offices worldwide.

 

Republic is looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our Tokenization team in reimagining the future of digital asset innovation. The Technical Program Manager will work on a small, elite team to design new digital assets (tokens) and build program management solutions for both internal teams and customer-facing products/services. The Technical Program Manager is an extremely detail-oriented individual who can design end-to-end processes for delivery these technical services.

 

The Technical Program Manager will work cross-functionally within the Republic organization across teams and timezones. The Technical Program Manager is capable of learning and understanding the requirements for delivering a secure and successful token deployment. 

 

Importantly, the Technical Program Manager will operate, in a hands-on way, the programs that they design and implement.

 

Republic’s Tokenization capabilities and offering is broken down into 3 main business functions;

Advisory & Facilitation - which focuses on working closely with our clients and issuers to advise them in a structured way to gather requirements for properly designing and deploying their token (digital asset). This advisory is mindful of the complete business, legal, and technical requirements that must be completed before 

Program & Project Management - developing comprehensive programs and assisting in the managing of projects along those programs, making unique adjustments to programs to fit the needs of (1) our client and (2) the solution

Tokenization & Blockchain Deployments - which focuses on the engineering (token generation events or TGEs) and the distribution of digital assets. In addition, the Tokenization team works to deliver ancillary smart contract technologies that are imperative for the success of our client’s and partner’s digital asset, e.g. on-chain vesting, dividend distributions or claimable airdrops.

The role of the Technical Program Manager on the Tokenization team will be to manage the detailed and critical execution;

Development of tokenization programs, both for utility and security tokens

Gathering business and technical requirements from our clients/partners necessary to deliver on their token’s development and distribution

Managing/Co-Managing with PMs and Solutions Architects the communication between client/partner and engineering teams during the smart contract development and deployment efforts

What you’ll do

• Partner effectively across Republic departments and with clients/partners to manage the delivery of new digital assets (tokens or token smart contracts) 
• Develop -AND- improve upon processes for management and future automation 
• Work with the Republic teams to translate business and legal requirements from the client/partner into technical tokenization requirements 
• Clearly manage the client/partner’s expectations and goals against our service offering, contractual obligations and existing capabilities
• Attend client/partner workshops to ensure that the digital asset (token) design and requirements are being documented in a complete and accurate manner and according to the dynamic program(s)
• Engaging clients/partners directly during the token design phase of their project to assist in facilitation to gather the details for their token’s development and distribution 
• Manage and document precise and critical details about client/partner’s chosen deployment blockchain, token standards and characteristics (e.g. decimal, supplies, transfer restrictions etc.) secure wallet addresses, smart contract requirements (data inputs, outputs)
• Work closely with the client/partner to capture the imperative details and requi