Product Researcher, Parity
Blockchain infrastructure for the decentralised web
Job no longer available
Blockchain infrastructure for the decentralised web
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable businesses and organisations to capitalise on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities it presents.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Product Researcher, User Researcher, or similar role; experience with the web3 domain or in a fast-paced startup environment will be extremely helpful
- Web3 expertise or strong desire to learn: understanding of Web3 technologies, such as blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), decentralized identity, and smart contracts
- Research skills: Proven ability to design and conduct qualitative research, synthesize its implications, and work with the team to create real-world outcomes
- Product mindset: Ability to think strategically about product development and prioritize research efforts to align with business goals and user needs
- Presentation and communication skills: Parity values thoughtful and well-developed communication; this role requires excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively present research findings, insights, and recommendations to diverse stakeholders
What the job involves
- Cross-functional partnership: You will join a team with an engineering focus and a bias for action — along with the work of research itself, you will help your cross-functional teammates understand how-and-where user research, design research, and product research can support the larger product delivery process
- Product-level research: You will partner with teams that have varying levels of clarity around user needs and the technological capabilities that will enable us to solve them
- You’ll work with teams to draw out their current understanding, and set up and execute studies to characterize user and partner needs in such a way that we can understand and address them
- Design and interaction-level research: You’ll partner with designers and engineers to developer, iterate, and validate interaction concepts, user flows, and the basic mechanics of interactions
- Internal presentation and communication: For our internal audience, you’ll find the right ways to present the insights, concepts, and implications coming from the work, helping to build an organizational shared understanding of our end users and the ecosystem builders that support them
- Ecosystem awareness and engagement: In this fast moving space, part of your role will also be to understand how the ecosystem is evolving, and where and how we can support the builders who enable our vision
- The Polkadot ecosystem is unique: Parity creates the infrastructure to enable our ecosystem builders, rather than try to build all of web3 from a single, centralized point of view
Our take
Parity is a blockchain developer that builds infrastructure for the next generation of the internet. The open-source nature of Parity helps charities, businesses, and fintech institutions make the most of Web 3.0.
Founded in 2015 by department-heading employees of Ethereum, Parity has already partnered with the likes of Watr to track ethical commodities to help African economies. Its partnership with Aventus will help enterprises make more of the technology they champion. Both partnerships are examples of how scalable, flexible and powerful Parity’s infrastructure could be for the future of the internet.
With a focus on decentralisation, Parity has attracted investors such as the Digital Currency Group and the Ethereum Foundation, showing how integral they are to next-gen web development. Whilst it has yet to seek funding beyond its seed round and several grants, its partnerships with larger companies, as well as the success of its subsidiaries (such as Polkadot), will definitely help propel Parity into the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
27% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2019
$5m
GRANT
Apr 2016
$0.8m
SEED
Total funding: $5.8m
Company benefits
- Free German language courses
- Personal development budget
- Free drinks and snacks
- Company and team events
- A KICKASS team with the ambition to change the world with open-source software
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Gavin Wood
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-founder of Polkadot. Founder and President at Web3 Foundation, previously Co-Founder at Grid Singularity, Co-Founder and CTO at Ethereum Foundation, and Director of Technology at OxLegal.
Bjorn Wagner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Initially served as CCO at the company before transitioning into their current role as CEO.
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