JPMorgan is on a blockchain hiring spree

JPMorgan is on a hiring spree for its blockchain unit, searching for to fill positions throughout audit, engineering and advertising, a number of LinkedIn postings reveal. 

The financial institution — which has been lively within the blockchain house for a number of years — announced in October 2020 that it could deliver all of its blockchain-related services beneath a brand new enterprise unit, dubbed Onyx. These companies together with Liink, a blockchain community of a whole bunch of financial-services corporations and companies, in addition to its Coin Methods enterprise, as per its website. 

As for the job advertisements, JPMorgan has plastered dozens of latest postings on LinkedIn, together with engineering-related roles. One role for a blockchain platform software program engineer is in search of somebody with a background in proof of stake, Ethereum, and bitcoin and would create a “discussion board for innovation with the blockchain know-how group that drives thought management across the digital structure roadmap and technique.”

There’s additionally proof the agency needs a stronger exterior presence for the blockchain work being labored on on the agency.

“This particular person will drive the Liink advertising technique by creating a radical understanding of our strategic aims, positioning, model voice, and choices so that you could create constant and interesting content material throughout a number of touchpoints,” the advert reads. The particular person employed can be tasked with creating advertising methods that “spark engagement — each internally and externally.”

The financial institution added that they need the particular person to have a humorousness that could be a contact irreverent.

JPMorgan has already made fairly a lot of big-ticket advertising hires for Onyx. At first of the 12 months, Ariana Gianacopoulos — previously VP of worldwide industrial advertising at Conde Nast — joined the agency as a advertising director.

Ray Beharry — beforehand a advertising government for IBM’s cloud companies division — additionally joined at the start of the 12 months as head of promoting at Onyx, as per his LinkedIn. 

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