Senior People Partner, Matter Labs
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Ethereum R&D and scaling solutions
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Ethereum R&D and scaling solutions
101-200 employees
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the mass adoption of crypto for financial sovereignty.
Role
Who you are
- Overall, we’re looking for someone excited about being in a fast paced senior HRBP role with expertise in U.S operations
- 7+ years demonstrated experience in HR/People roles (ex. Leadership, HRBP, Generalist, Operations, Program Manager) and U.S. employee expertise
- Experience on HR/People team at a rapidly scaling startup
- Aligned with our values: growth mindset, positivity mindset, ownership mindset, collaborative working style, low ego, high agency, high curiosity
- Expert communicator and storyteller. Proficiency in English required
- Excellent influencing skills - able to manage up (senior leadership) or down (all employees) in the organization - to win hearts and minds
- Passionate about creating a positive employee experience
- Thrives on variety and adept at switching contexts
- Self-starter who can respond to problems independently and proactively providing solutions/outcomes
- Enjoys strategic problem solving and comfortable with hands-on execution
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, maintaining strong organization and attention to detail
- Skilled in building strong stakeholder relationships to secure buy-in for change
- Empathetic and capable of managing sensitive information/situations with discretion
- Passion for emerging technologies and creative problem-solving in decentralized systems
- Eagerness to stay updated with tech trends and ability to adapt to new technology
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to lead People initiatives within the Business Team
- You will partner closely with the President of Matter Labs and report directly to our COO
- The role is responsible for providing high quality, objective and robust business partnering and generalist support to ensure the business attracts, develops and retains great people ensuring the culture and values remain at the forefront of all activity
- Another focus will be setting up best-in-class benefits, policies and compliance for U.S. employees, while partnering with our Global People Operations Manager to ensure employees are treated equitably across the globe
- This position offers a unique opportunity to directly impact our culture and values (the “what”) through implementing/communicating new initiatives (the “how”), ensuring employees feel Matter Labs is an exceptional place to work
- This role is fully remote and open to candidates working in Eastern US or EMEA timezones, however you must have experience dealing with US operations
- For HRBP, the focus will be on general HRBP duties for our Business teams and building trust with stakeholders
- Sample HRBP projects include Performance Management (promotion recommendations, PIP, terminations), Leveling Framework improvements, Manager/Employee training and development, internal communication and rollout of new policies
- Partner with business leaders and various functional teams on strategic and operational execution including, team effectiveness, change management, organisational design, performance management, retention, engagement, talent and succession planning, professional growth and more
- Support managers in identifying and addressing organisational and people issues, removing barriers and increasing engagement and effectiveness across teams in the region
- Support the development of HR policies, practices, process, programs and ensure their compliance with local labour laws and regulations
- For Employee Lifecycle/Engagement: the focus will be on program managing several initiatives to ensure employees are engaged and continue to develop
- Sample Employee Lifecycle/Engagement projects include Team Offsites, rollout and analysis of bi-annual Employee Engagement Surveys, rolling out OKRs
- For the U.S. Benefits/Policies, your focus will be on managing the U.S. HR Benefits/Policies & compliance for currently 30+ employees across 20+ states
- It’s important for us to offer top tier, competitive benefits, and from an employer branding perspective, we want to make sure to showcase it both internally to employees and externally to candidates
- Sample US Benefits/Policies projects include ensuring U.S. Handbook is updated with legal compliance across federal and state guidelines (other examples: 401K, healthcare, harassment training, visa and relocation, employer branding, etc)
- Once we’ve established best in class U.S. Benefits/Policies, this role will expand to include more HRBP and Employee Lifecycle/Engagement responsibilities
- Across all of these focuses, you’ll need to be a best-in-class communicator — both internally and externally, across various mediums (we use Notion, Slack, GSuite)
Our take
While the Ethereum network offers users highly rated security, the trade off is that its network volume doesn’t have enough capacity to allow for fast and cheap transactions. Matter Labs is one of a small number of companies that are building scaling protocols through its zero-knowledge proof driven product, zkSync.
It’s not the only company of its kind, with the likes of Arbitrum and Optimism also receiving plenty of publicity and funding. However, Matter Labs zero-knowledge proof approach has been praised for both its transaction speed and security. If it was easy however, many more companies would be doing it, so it appears that Matter Labs has made a significant headstart on the competition.
Over the last couple of years, the startup has secured some major funding from high-profile investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Union Square Ventures. Matter Labs released its recently renamed ZkSync Era - a zero-knowledge, open-source security platform on Ethereum in 2023. Matter Labs is predicting zero-knowledge cryptography to outlive alternative "optimistic" security tech from the likes of Arbitrum.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $258m
Company benefits
- Remote working
- Equity options
- Annual pay raise
- 28 work days of paid vacation
- 10 days of paid sick leave / year
Company values
- Freedom
- Ownership
- Communication
Company HQ
George Town, George Town
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Leadership
Alex Gluchowski
(CEO)Has co-founded two previous startups, wellbeing platform Somuchmore (acquired by Urbansportsclub), and camper-rental startup PaulCamper.
Alexandr Vlasov
(R&D Head)Electrical Engineering PhD. Former Chief Research Scientist at BANKEX Foundation.
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