Grants & Operations Manager

🪶 About Plume
Plume is the first fully-integrated and modular blockchain optimized for real world assets (RWAs). We’ve built an EVM-compatible blockchain that’s fast, efficient, and incredibly cheap, along with an end-to-end onboarding platform that lets asset issuers deploy their RWAs onchain. We’re proud of our rapidly growing network, which includes:

• 180+ RWA companies building dapps and tokenizing assets on Plume’s testnet, ranging from collectibles and real estate to equities and private credit

• 50+ technology partners working with Plume and offering special services to our ecosystem partners

• Experienced team of 20+ crypto, finance, and tech professionals from:

  • Crypto: Coinbase, dYdX, LayerZero, Binance, Galaxy Digital, Kraken

  • Finance/Tech: JP Morgan, Robinhood, Google, Coupa, Affirm

• Backed by great investors and operators including:

  • YZi Labs, Brevan Howard, Haun Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Lightspeed, Faction, Superscrypt, SV Angel, and more

🪶 You are:

A Grants Lead who will oversee Plume's robust grants program. You are passionate about web3 and possess a deep understanding of the Plume network. With 3+ years of experience in grant-making, community management, or related fields, you are highly organized, detail-oriented, and possess excellent communication skills. You want to be instrumental in shaping the future of Plume by identifying and supporting innovative projects that align with its core values.

🪶 Overall Responsibilities

• Oversee the operations of the grants committee and distribution of grants

• Ensure the grants program meets the strategic needs of the Plume Foundation

• Effectively manage stakeholders for the evaluation, approval, and management of grnats

• Perform interviews with grant applicants

• Monitor progress towards milestones, prepare regular reports to communicate grant decisions at the end of the grants cycle

• Develop a framework and evaluate ROI of each grant, including following up on milestone completion

• Assist teams on post grant support including providing marketing support, connecting teams with the best infrastructure providers, supporting the search for advisors, and other ad-hoc support

🪶 Qualifications

• Passionate about web3, crypto, and RWAs

• An understanding of what tooling, interfaces, community building, and marketing will be beneficial to the Plume network

• Program management experience

• Strong attention to detail, highly organized

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Well connected within the blockchain ecosystem

• 3+ years experience in grant-making, community management, project or product management, consulting, engineering, or corporate development

🪶 What to expect from Plume

• Salary ranges are competitive with top startups.

• As an early employee, you will receive a competitive equity grant.

• Fully remote with the option to come into the NYC office any time.

• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits for US based employees.