NEAR is hiring a

Web3 Business Operations Associate

About NEAR And The NEAR Collective

NEAR's mission is to enable community-driven innovation to benefit people around the world. The NEAR platform provides a decentralized 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.

The NEAR platform, NEAR Protocol and associated tooling are being built by the NEAR Collective, a collection of the best engineers in the world who work across teams, companies and countries similar to other large scale open source projects. Core contributors include a couple of 2-time ICPC world champions, 2 gold medalists, a Latin American champion and multiple other competitive programming finalists.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. NEAR is committed to creating an inclusive culture, and we celebrate diversity of all kinds.

About The Role:

The Business Operations team is a cross-functional team that owns core finance and accounting, tax, corporate governance, and procurement responsibilities, and plans and executes initiatives to scale operational capabilities to meet the company’s strategic goals.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work closely with the Business Operations Manager and provide tactical support with strategic business initiatives, plans, and procedures as directed.
• Proactively manage and improve several existing department operational processes and metrics reporting obligations in key areas, including finance, corporate governance, procurement, and ad hoc strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with multiple external professional services vendors to ensure quality and timely delivery of work.
• Partner with senior team members to implement new operational processes to facilitate business outcomes as necessary.
• Provide ad hoc cross-functional operational support to the business as required.

What We're Looking For:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking or startup operations
• Ability to work in a cross-functional role while also thinking strategically
• Strong work ethic and ability to multitask, prioritize and follow through on numerous projects simultaneously
• Advanced spreadsheet modeling skills
• Google Workspace power-user
• Ability and desire to work both autonomously but also collaboratively
• Strong understanding of technical concepts, analytical skills, and attention to detail
• Passion to do whatever it takes to solve complex problems and build scalable processes
• Comfort working in high growth, constantly changing environment
• Willingness to learn

We'd Love If You Have:

• Familiarity with blockchain, smart contracts, and other decentralized systems
• Prior remote work experience

Location:Anywhere in the world

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.

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