Governance Program Manager

The Governance Program Manager will be at the heart of Filecoin’s decentralized decision-making, ensuring that our governance processes are trusted, transparent, and effective. Governance is the invisible infrastructure that enables trust, community growth, and long-term protocol sustainability. You’ll be building the systems that help thousands of participants coordinate effectively while positioning Filecoin governance as the reference model for the industry. Incorporating skills from communications strategy and part community management, the ideal candidate for this role will design tools and solutions that empower a broad array of stakeholders to more deeply and meaningfully participate in network governance.

Key Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence

• Run the daily governance workflow: schedule and moderate community calls, maintain documentation, manage proposal timelines, and ensure smooth network upgrade planning.
• Run the day-to-day: shipping code with vendors, facilitating consensus, and communicating decisions to a global audience
• Move Filecoin Improvement Proposals (FIPs) forward from draft to decision with clarity and consensus: ensuring authors, reviewers, and delegates are aligned.

Tooling & Product

• Build a living framework for the Governance Lifecycle, backed by clear specifications, metrics, and documents that the ecosystem trusts and uses.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship governance tooling upgrades without downtime.
• Develop and maintain governance playbooks, charters, and process frameworks that adapt as the network evolves.

Stakeholder & Community Alignment

• Act as the bridge between storage providers, token holders, Fil+ participants, core devs, implementers, FIP editors, and authors, ensuring everyone has the context they need to make informed decisions.
• Onboard new participants into governance through clear guides, workshops, AMAs, Twitter spaces, newsletters, and other communications.
• Represent Filecoin governance in panels and publications, serving as the approachable voice in the ecosystem.

Qualifications:

Required

• 2-5 years in protocol governance, open-source program management, or complex stakeholder coordination.
• Demonstrated experience delivering governance tooling and processes (on-chain or off-chain)
• Excellent communicator, both written and verbal, with experience managing public discourse and complex stakeholders.
• Experience operating across cultures and time zones in remote-first environments.

Ideal

• Proficiency with GitHub and GitHub APIs for managing governance workflows and community discussions.
• Strong understanding of Governance smart contracts.
• Strong technical tooling background: drafting PRDs, coordinating execution with vendors, and ensuring deliverables meet specifications.
• Fluency in game theory and mechanism design with understanding of governance attack-vectors.
• Fluency in or familiarity with Mandarin is a plus.

The salary range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At Filecoin Foundation, total compensation includes base salary, FIL/Tokens and exceptional benefits and perks. A reasonable base salary estimate of the current range for this positions is $125,000-$150,000/yr.