Ethereum Jobs

About the Role

The Ethereum Foundation is hiring for a Founder Success Operations role to help design, run, and improve how we support early-stage founders building on Ethereum.

The Founder Success team is responsible for identifying and nurturing net-new innovation and founder talent across the Ethereum ecosystem, and for supporting founders through the earliest and most uncertain stages of building. This role helps ensure that founder support balances hands-on, founder-specific work where it matters most with more structured programs and partnerships that allow us to support many teams well, all aligned with Ethereum’s long-term values.

In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the operational backbone of Founder Success, including systems, programs, and workflows, while staying closely connected to founders, partners, and internal EF teams. This is a high-autonomy individual contributor role with meaningful responsibility and long-term impact.

What You’ll Do

Founder Success Operations

• Responsible for maintaining and improving the Founder Success operational stack, including CRM, founder tracking, program documentation, and internal workflows.

• Ensure high-quality data on founder engagement, relationship development, program participation, and outcomes.

• Help turn qualitative founder interactions, including one-on-one support for individual teams, into structured insights that inform programs, partnerships, and broader ecosystem support over time.

Program Design & Execution

• Take primary responsibility for the program management and execution of structured founder programs such as in-person activations, mentorship networks, and partner initiatives (accelerators and residencies), ensuring they run smoothly alongside direct founder support.

• Work closely with the Founder Success team and external partners to design programs together and manage coordination from planning through execution and follow up.

• Define and track program goals, timelines, success metrics, and feedback loops, and improve programs based on outcomes and founder feedback.

• Apply practical judgment about when hands-on support is the right approach and when programs or partnerships are a better fit.
  

Founder & Ecosystem Engagement

• Build trusted, sustainable relationships with early-stage founders across the Ethereum ecosystem.

• Support the identification of net-new founder talent and early-stage innovation through ongoing ecosystem engagement, events, and partner relationships.

• Maintain processes and connections to surface, track, and follow promising founders, including teams that are very early, pre-funding, or not yet publicly visible.

• Act as a thoughtful point of contact for founders navigating fundraising, early product decisions, go-to-market considerations, and ecosystem integration.

• Surface recurring founder needs, bottlenecks, and patterns to inform Founder Success and broader EF strategy.

• Represent the Ethereum Foundation at selected ecosystem events, founder gatherings, and partner initiatives.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of experience in crypto, as a founder, early operator, investor, or in a founder-facing ecosystem role, with direct experience working closely with early-stage founders.

• Strong understanding of early-stage dynamics, including fundraising, product iteration, go-to-market, community, and ecosystem navigation.

• Comfortable working independently in a remote, globally distributed environment, with clear and transparent communication habits.

• Strong operational instincts, with experience working across processes, systems, and data, and a bias toward structure, documentation, and follow through.

• High EQ and sound judgment, able to build trust quickly and assess founder potential across execution ability, technical depth, and values alignment.

• Low ego, team first mindset, motivated by helping others succeed and playing the long game.

• Strong alignment with Ethereum’s core values and a genuine interest in supporting open, decentralized innovation.

Why Join Ethereum Foundation?

• Meaningful Impact: Contribute directly to how Ethereum identifies and supports its next generation of founders.

• At the Center of the Ecosystem: EF sits at the heart of Ethereum, offering a uniquely broad, mission-driven, and long-term vantage point.

• Autonomy & Trust: Full location independence, clear ownership of work, and responsibility from day one.