Ethereum layer-2 scaling resolution Polygon (MATIC) has introduced the hiring of Bhumika Srivastava in a bid to consolidate its technique and cultural ambitions for the corporate’s 500-employee international workforce.
Serving as the pinnacle of human sources and director for worker expertise at Airbnb for the previous 5 years, Srivastava arrives with an illustrious portfolio and plethora of expertise from her work in Web2, having occupied senior roles at Adobe, Yahoo, Tesco PLC, and Snapdeal.
Srivastava’s appointment marks a constant development in Polygon’s hiring technique of distinguished figures inside the Web2 house, akin to the previous head of gaming at Youtube, Ryan Wyatt, being employed as CEO of Polygon Studios in January and, extra lately, Tyler Sellhorn being introduced on to advertise Polygon’s decentralized working mannequin as head of distant.
In an interview with Cointelegraph carried out on Zoom, Srivastava spoke candidly in regards to the requirements of management, Polygon’s parabolic worker progress over the previous 12 months, and her ambitions to domesticate a thriving decentralized tradition which operates with sustainable high-performance.
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Cointelegraph: Albeit solely being within the position for 2 days, how do you anticipate your place with Polygon to vary from that of Airbnb? And what are your anticipations in transitioning into the Web3 house?
Srivastava: “I’d say that Web2 to Web3 may be very redefining for HR. […] The groups are distributed, remote-first, working in a hybrid house, and everyone seems to be liable for their very own piece of labor.
What might be totally different is creating an worker expertise for distributed groups, a way of engagement belonging to the groups that are working in silos, and likewise empowering groups to take selections to work in an agile style, and never simply, you already know, ingrained in a really structured manner of processes.”
CT: What do you imagine are your greatest qualities as a pacesetter, and what’s your timeline of accomplishment?
Srivastava: “I believe short-term outcomes and motivation [are] positively required, particularly in a startup. Now we have a line of sight for about two to 3 months. How do you create readability on the priority-setting to your workers? You pay for his or her efficiency – rewarding them within the quick time period goes to be crucial.
As for the long run, how do you have interaction the workforce to retain [them]? How do they get a way of goal in defining and attaining the imaginative and prescient for the group in the long term?”
“So, it should be a mix of each. How will we obtain each quick time period by way of attraction and retention, and long run by way of belonging and engagement?”
CT: Are you planning to work together and interact your workers within the Metaverse house, or will or not it’s solely by way of video conferencing platforms akin to Zoom?
Srivastava: “I don’t need to have that have. It is new for me, and a transition, however I am actually excited to check out new issues within the Web3 house.”
CT: Polygon has recorded an worker enhance of 400% over the previous 12 months to 500 group members. Do you imagine that’s a sustainable technique shifting ahead taking into consideration the present crypto bear market, and enhance in layoffs we’re seeing at firms akin to Coinbase and Gemini?
Srivastava: “We’re very aware of the way in which we’re working. We need to scale the group, and never simply the variety of those who we need to rent, [but] to create high-performing, lean groups. For now, I will not say that we’re going to proceed with a 400% progress price, however no matter is sensible for us to create a sustainable Web3 platform, we will certainly try this.”
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CT: What do you imagine might be your greatest challenges within the position, and what are your greatest ambitions?
Srivastava: “I’d say by way of the largest problem, […] how will we create an ecosystem the place we’re in a position to make use of folks, preserving in thoughts the legality and laws of a specific nation?
“The second is bringing collectively all of the groups who’re based mostly the world over in a remote-first surroundings and create a way of teamwork, cohesiveness, engagement and a way of goal.”
So, these are two top-of-mind issues in the intervening time. After which afterward, how will we re-look at HR know-how for a Web3 group, particularly given how distributed platforms are working?”
