Ecosystem Lead

Mission: Set up a strong foundation for Assisterr's Ecosystem, and contribute to its growth via partnerships, integrations, and onboarding new SLM builders;

Estimated time: Full time, Contract.

Location: Remote, UK

Assisterr is a decentralised platform that simplifies the creation, maintenance, and support of community-owned Small Language Models (SLMs).

Our incentive-driven data inference framework allows everyone to contribute knowledge and expertise to train AI models, ensuring permissionless access, data quality, and fair rewards.

Our mission is to ensure everyone has equal opportunities to contribute to and benefit from AI progress.

We just secured a $1.7M Pre-seed round and scaling team. Read more.

As the ecosystem lead, you will play a pivotal role in supporting and driving the growth of the Assisterr ecosystem. This position requires someone who is passionate about supporting founders and builders of applications and core infrastructure for Assisterr. You will work closely with product, marketing, community, and developer relations teams to design, develop, and implement ecosystem efforts that ensure the Assisterr ecosystem flourishes.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research and collaborate with leadership and product teams to develop Assisterr's ecosystem growth strategy.
• Architect Strategic Planning: Craft and implement a visionary business development strategy tailored to the market, targeting pivotal growth areas, opportunities for protocol collaboration, and insightful competitive analysis.
• Design and implement a community-led improvement proposal and bounties framework.
• Manage the ecosystem fund for grants and bounties.
• Design and implement growth initiatives by forming strategic partnerships and overseeing the grants program
• Establish an incubation program to provide resources and structured support to high-potential partners that are building apps and core infrastructure that are native to Assisterr
• Collaborate with the marketing team to produce relevant ecosystem-focused content and scale the community experience to increase awareness and engagement
• Oversee our external and internal (online and offline) events efforts, and ensure events strategy is aligned with our ecosystem efforts
• Coordinate with the product and partnerships team to drive ecosystem expansion in line with the product and integration roadmap
• Align internal teams to provide technical support to strategic ecosystem projects and ensure partners’ feedback is incorporated into the product roadmap
• Build relationships with ecosystem investors and strategic partners to support ecosystem projects with fundraising, product development, and go-to-market efforts
• Define and track KPIs and metrics for acquisition funnel and ecosystem success
• Manage the ecosystem fund for grants and bounties.
• Organize calls gathering the community.
• Contribute to social media channels, our discord and telegram communities and newsletter.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience working with start-ups and notable A minimum of 3 years of experience in business development or strategic partnerships within AI and WEb3 sector.
• Ability to drive projects independently, coordinate with stakeholders across the company, and manage multiple initiatives while maintaining a high quality of work
• Passionate about collaborating with developers and startup founders.
• Eager to promote Assisterr and its value proposition of data and AI ownership.
• You are driven and care about outcomes over process. Ideally, you have helped a company or ecosystem go from 0 to 1, and want to do it again. Multi-year efforts do not intimidate you.
• You are good at collecting and interpreting feedback from users and early adopters, and translating it for the benefit of product or engineering teams.
• Resourcefulness, adaptability, and creative problem-solving
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail

Nice-to-have:

• Located in the United States or the United Kingdom
• Deep understanding of the WEB3 and AI landscape
• A great network within the WEB3 ecosystem
• Experience in incubating projects or incubating an ecosystem
• Team management experience

• Working with a passionate and rapidly growing team
• A competitive salary and benefits package (Equity & Token).
• Ability to try and test your best ideas in real life with exposure to 170k community.
• Remote first
• Flexible hours
• Flexible vacation policy
• Quarterly offsite travel for collaboration

Team in Faces

CEO - Nick Havryliak
CPO - Dmytro Dimenko
CTO - Dejan Radić