The OpenSea product manager for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Nate Chastain, asked on Twitter for help in hiring staff.
We need to ramp up hiring at OpenSea. We are 37 people handling 98% of all NFT volume.
Referral bonus: Will pay 1 ETH to anyone who connects us to engineers or designers that we hire. Resumes to opensearoles@gmail.com.
Candidates: Use https://t.co/adazqldv91 directly.
— Nate Chastain (natec.eth) (@natechastain) August 29, 2021
According to Chastain, 37 employees at OpenSea handle 98% of NFT trading volume.
He also promised to send 1 ETH (about $3,190 at the time of writing) to anyone who refers an engineer or designer whom the company hires.
According to the jobs page, OpenSea is hiring for more than 20 roles. Among them are developers, finance professionals, marketers, recruiters, community managers, executives and others.
In July OpenSea raised $100 million in a Series B round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. The deal valued the company at $1.5 billion.
In August trading volume on OpenSea exceeded $2.23 billion. Analyses by The Block show that in June the figure was $125.2 million, and in July it rose to $284.2 million.
In the first half of 2021 NFT trading volume reached $2.5 billion. In August the figure was $2.3 billion.
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