Team Assistant in Tech

Team Assistant in Tech Parity is one of the world's most experienced core blockchain infrastructure companies, having built and pioneered some of the most advanced technologies in the blockchain sector. Parity was founded by Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum, the primary engineer behind the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), inventor of the Solidity programming language, and primary author of the Ethereum Yellowpaper. Based in Berlin, London, and Lisbon with over 340 employees worldwide, Parity has built clients for Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Zcash and has pioneered a completely new, next-generation blockchain protocol with Polkadot and the framework it's built with, Substrate. Parity builds the open-source technologies needed to power an unstoppable, decentralised web—known as Web3—and helps developers and organisations implement and build upon the Web3 tech stack. **About the team**: The Operations department at Parity supports the critical business mission of making "Polkadot the most active and innovative community building the future decentralised web" and acts as a service partner to all Parity teams, delivering crucial support to the business, so that the mission can be achieved. You will be joining the Support team (Team Assistants), one of four teams within Ops, currently consisting of five members supporting different departments here at Parity. As Team Assistant you will work closely with several small functional teams and autonomous engineers in our Technical Department. **About the position**: You will support Tech teams by assisting them with administrative and operational tasks such as booking travel, supporting reimbursements, contractor payments, supporting office visits and answering questions and pointing them in the right direction - while being an engine to drive our processes by reporting to the Ops team. Your main objective will be to help engineers focusing on their work by taking over a significant amount or administration workload and being involved in their everyday life. You will not be asked for coding, but you will need to be able to understand basic terms and principles in blockchain engineering, such as parachains, smart contracts, runtime development, staking, DApps, DAO. We are seeking various dedicated and well organized, energetic professionals who are happy wearing multiple hats and assisting a team and/or department in a wide range of administrative and executive support-related tasks. - Travel and Event support (team retreats, company events, conferences, team mobility) - Operational onboarding - help new joiners integrate teams by implementing internal and external processes (calendar and tools coordination, synchronisation with Ops team) - Support with administrative and logistics tasks (invoices, orders, workplace processes) - Subscription management (inventory, streamline tools, implement processes) - Documentation - assist with internal communication and ensure information is well organised, saved, and deleted (develop team and department workspace, write meeting notes, archive and delete information) - Support with cross-department operations (organise meetings, support internal communication, draft company structure) - Communication - create more bridges between teams as an internal point of contact. - Supporting Team Leads - helping to connect team members and giving extra support to Team Leads with their administrative duties - HR Admin tasks - handling confidential information maintaining and organising Parity members records, supporting onboarding and offboarding processes, organising and conducting training sessions **About you**: - 3+ years of administrative / operational assistant experience - Technical driven personality and strong interest and understanding in software engineering & blockchain technology - Outstanding organisation & prioritisation skills, capacity to work with a multitude of stakeholders - Attention to detail and high level of professionalism with logistic and operational tasks - Rigorous attitude and capacity to handle processes in a complex technical environment - Strong written and verbal communication skills with English (near-native level) - Service-oriented mindset and open attitude to questions and requests - Flexibility and adaptability in fast-changing and autonomous environments - Tech-savviness and ability to use different tools powering remote collaboration and asynchronous collaboration - Autonomous and self-independent working style, being able to take initiatives and make decisions quickly - A proactive and self-learning attitude Nice-to-haves - Knowledge of different approaches to project management and software development, such as agile techniques - Knowledge of Linux operating systems - Familiarity / user experience with GitHub - Familiarity with Element (managing spaces, rooms and permissions) **For everyone who joins us**: - Competitive remuneration packages, including tokens (where legal