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Work on Celo and join us in building a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">As the Brand Marketing Manager at cLabs you will bring creative and strategic thinking to the development and implementation of our overall global brand strategy. This will be a pivotal role in determining the long term success and positioning of the cLabs brand. </span></div>

At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem. 

Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone.

As the Brand Marketing Manager at cLabs you will bring creative and strategic thinking to the development and implementation of our overall global brand strategy. This will be a pivotal role in determining the long term success and positioning of the cLabs brand. 


<li>Manage a variety of marketing initiatives that drive brand awareness.</li><li>Plan, strategies and execute marketing campaigns to establish and maintain brand presence in the market.</li><li>Set and manage marketing budgets and track/report on key goals and metrics.</li><li>Define all planning &amp; execution milestones, and lead leadership discussions to drive alignment.</li><li>Lead the charge on our brand evolution. You’ll work with design, product, marketing, and leadership to codify and understand the unique tenets of our brand and help shape where it goes.</li><li>Driving development of brand strategy in collaboration with external agencies, including development of customer personas, brand positioning, etc.</li><li>Create and manage brand / portfolio marketing campaigns globally</li><div><br></div>

<li>5+ years experience working in a Brand Marketing capacity on global brands/products.</li><li>Experience effectively delivering multiple projects in a fast paced environment.</li><li>Proven success in establishing and maintaining brand standards and messaging strategy.</li><li>Exceptional project management, organizational, writing, &amp; presentation skills and an ability to multi-task, prioritize and organize work to meet deadlines and multiple requests.</li><li>Analytical skills and the ability to develop market insights, marketing strategy and analyze campaign effectiveness.</li><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">As the Head of Blockchain at cLabs you will be responsible for leading the Blockchain Engineering Team and the efforts on our blockchain client development. This role will work closely with our Blockchain Product Manager and the engineering team to define the strategy and roadmap for the celo blockchain client. Additionally this role will also lead our blockchain design efforts and the implementation of them.</span></div>

At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem. 

Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone.

As the Head of Blockchain at cLabs you will be responsible for leading the Blockchain Engineering Team and the efforts on our blockchain client development. This role will work closely with our Blockchain Product Manager and the engineering team to define the strategy and roadmap for the celo blockchain client. Additionally this role will also lead our blockchain design efforts and the implementation of them.


<li>Provide leadership to the Blockchain Engineering Team</li><li>Use expertises in a high level of autonomy to help build and define Strategy and Roadmap for Blockchain Client in Celo (alongside product)</li><li>Facilitate technical design discussions, remove blockers and align stakeholders</li><li>Supervise and Contribute to the Blockchain Client Design and Research</li><li>Individually contribute to codebase when time permits</li><div><br></div>

<li>Engineering Leadership Experience&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to be both a highly technical, hands-on coder and an effective people manager</li><li>Experience developing a strategy and roadmap for your teams</li><li>4+ years of experience with Distributed Systems and/or Blockchain Layer 1 Experience&nbsp;</li><li>Experience with or deep knowledge of cryptography, globally distributed systems, blockchain or other related domains</li><li>Autonomy &amp; ability to design complex systems</li><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, the team working on the open source platform Celo, our mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. The first application launching on the Celo platform, Valora, is a social payments and money transfer app, aimed at developing markets.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">As the lead for our Partner Engineering team, you will lead a critical function for the success of the ecosystem – deep diving with technical partners to enable them to successfully build on Celo. This role requires leadership, communication, strategy, and technical depth.</span></div>

At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem. 

Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone.

At cLabs, the team working on the open source platform Celo, our mission is to build a financial system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

Celo aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. The first application launching on the Celo platform, Valora, is a social payments and money transfer app, aimed at developing markets.

As the lead for our Partner Engineering team, you will lead a critical function for the success of the ecosystem – deep diving with technical partners to enable them to successfully build on Celo. This role requires leadership, communication, strategy, and technical depth.


<li>Develop a deep understanding of our blockchain and ecosystem to become a trusted expert both internally and externally</li><li>Meet with existing and potential partners, listen carefully, and explore and clarify potential solutions and additional opportunities for collaboration</li><li>Serve as a leader for 3+ partner engineers, both helping with hiring, and ensuring they are set up for success with each engagement</li><li>Work closely with all engineering teams to both deep dive on tough issues, and to develop a knowledge-base of answers that allow business teams to self-serve for simpler requests</li><li>Understand cLabs’ strategy in order to be able to help your team and the company as a whole prioritize requests, providing thoughtful and kindly communicated “no”s where needed</li>

<li>At least 2, ideally 5+ years of engineering leadership experience</li><li>At least 1, ideally 3+ years of partnership engineering experience - i.e. a role where the primary focus is deep-diving with external clients</li><li>The ability to quickly build trust in relationships</li><li>The ability to clearly convey technical concepts to business audiences with varying degrees of sophistication, as well as the ability to convert requests into technically feasible solutions</li>

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. </span></div><div><br></div><div>As the Product Marketing Manager, you will lead all aspects of product/technical marketing for cLabs products to drive growth and product adoption. Some days this will be assisting products with market research, other days it will be crafting branding and marketing strategy associated with a particular product, and other days will be brainstorming with the broader product team, alongside engineers, to ideate long term strategy across products.</div><div><br></div>

At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem. 

Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone.

As the Product Marketing Manager, you will lead all aspects of product/technical marketing for cLabs products to drive growth and product adoption. Some days this will be assisting products with market research, other days it will be crafting branding and marketing strategy associated with a particular product, and other days will be brainstorming with the broader product team, alongside engineers, to ideate long term strategy across products.



<li>Develop and execute the global product marketing strategy for products within cLabs.</li><li>Work closely with the product, engineering, operations, and broader marketing team to develop and execute strategic marketing initiatives.&nbsp;</li><li>Work closely with communications, editorial and content marketing to produce compelling content to enable product success.&nbsp;</li><li>Team with the product, operations, and leadership teams to craft a strategy related to market expansion as it pertains to product success and marketing efforts.&nbsp;</li><li>Define personas and/or audiences, value propositions, and key messages for cLabs products.</li><li>Conduct landscape assessments and research, as needed, to develop well-informed marketing strategies.</li><li>Define and measure product marketing success metrics to gauge, track, and engage with product specific marketing tactics.&nbsp;</li>

<li>5+ years of experience in Product Marketing</li><li>2+ years of experience building and managing a team</li><li>Previous experience establishing the Product Marketing function within a startup environment</li><li>International product marketing experience&nbsp;</li><li>Understanding of crypto/blockchain technologies and competitive landscape</li><li>Ability to think analytically, creatively, and strategically, while also rolling up your sleeves to bring that strategy to life</li><li>Excellent communication skills - written, verbal, and interpersonal</li><li>Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate with multiple stakeholders within a rapidly changing industry</li><div><br></div>

<div><span style="font-size: 11pt">At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone. </span></div><div><br></div><div>cLabs is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Blockchain Team. Our team is responsible of the Celo's blockchain node; that is the software that maintains a p2p network; where the validators reach consensus new blocks, that then every other nodes syncs &amp; validates. Our node is based on go-ethereum software with several transformations (like the consensus engine) that makes the Celo blockchain unique. Our main challenges are scaling the network, improving its security and resiliency; and adding new features to the Celo ecosystem that can only be done at the node's level (like paying gas with an ERC20 token).</div><div><br></div><div>We work alongside other engineering teams within cLabs. This includes other platform teams such as the Contracts and Primitives team, as we constantly access smart contracts as part of our operations, and the Economics team, to design and implement the right incentives for our validators and full nodes. We also partner with user-facing teams such as the Wallet and Developer Experience teams, as a big part of our job is to make end users' and contributors' lives easier. This is a role with wide exposure to many areas of the stack, and you'll quickly get acquainted with all the moving parts in a modern blockchain project.</div>

At cLabs, our mission is to create financial building blocks that empower everyone in the world to save, spend, and innovate with money. cLabs is a technical powerhouse and product incubator dedicated to the Celo ecosystem. 

Celo is a layer one blockchain that aims to remove the barriers for large-scale adoption of cryptocurrencies as means-of-payment. Using a novel address-based encryption algorithm, the Celo protocol makes sending money as easy as sending a text. Additionally, Celo uses stable-value tokens pegged to fiat currencies, like the US Dollar, to minimize volatility. Celo is an open protocol enabling many to participate in the system, even with a budget Android smartphone.

cLabs is seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our Blockchain Team. Our team is responsible of the Celo's blockchain node; that is the software that maintains a p2p network; where the validators reach consensus new blocks, that then every other nodes syncs & validates. Our node is based on go-ethereum software with several transformations (like the consensus engine) that makes the Celo blockchain unique. Our main challenges are scaling the network, improving its security and resiliency; and adding new features to the Celo ecosystem that can only be done at the node's level (like paying gas with an ERC20 token).

We work alongside other engineering teams within cLabs. This includes other platform teams such as the Contracts and Primitives team, as we constantly access smart contracts as part of our operations, and the Economics team, to design and implement the right incentives for our validators and full nodes. We also partner with user-facing teams such as the Wallet and Developer Experience teams, as a big part of our job is to make end users' and contributors' lives easier. This is a role with wide exposure to many areas of the stack, and you'll quickly get acquainted with all the moving parts in a modern blockchain project.


<li>Design, architect &amp; implement solutions within the celo blockchain (layer 1 &amp; 2), solutions examples include but are not limited to network protocols, decentralized protocols, systems throughput optimisations, scalability.</li><li>Collaborate with Product Team to hit key product milestones by writing high quality, well tested code</li><li>Coach &amp; Mentor other engineers in a constant learning culture.</li><li>Perform and participate in code reviews</li><li>Work in a high performance scrum team</li>

<li>4+ years of experience working on distributed systems, ideally within the blockchain space</li><li>Experience working with backend programming languages and frameworks including Go, Java, or C++</li><li>Autonomy &amp; ability to design complex systems</li><li>Passion for growing others</li><li>BONUS: Good understanding of blockchain related cryptography (public key, BLS signatures, MACs, etc)</li><li>BONUS: Experience with low level database programming</li><li>BONUS: Experience working on systems optimization</li><li>BONUS: 2+ years of experience working with Go</li>

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