Head of Governance

About Filecoin Foundation

Filecoin is the world’s largest decentralized storage network. Filecoin Foundation’s mission is to preserve humanity’s most important information, as well as to facilitate the open source governance of the Filecoin network, fund research and development projects for decentralized technologies, and support the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community.

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for the secure and effective governance of the Filecoin protocol, overseeing existing processes while assessing, designing, and implementing critical improvements in Filecoin’s decentralized development. Part product manager, part communications specialist, part social scientist, the ideal candidate for this role will be well-versed in the trade-offs inherent to public program governance and adept at understanding and engaging with new technologies. You will help to develop new tools and technologies that enable community members to make decisions about critical network developments, convene the right stakeholders for solving critical network challenges, and serve as a neutral arbiter who can provide guidance in ambiguous situations. The ideal candidate must be able to work flexibly at different levels and on different projects.This individual will play a key part in envisioning the future of Filecoin governance and building institutional knowledge and capacity in this area.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Filecoin Improvement Proposal (FIP) process and become a key maintainer of the Filecoin network’s core technologies.
• Moderate developer meetings, coordinating work across various groups, and owning the overall process.
• Spend time with key technical stakeholders to better understand their capacity, ideas, roadblocks, and solicit other input as it emerges.
• Identify and maintain specs that are needed to meet the needs of Filecoin developers, protocol implementation teams, storage providers, developer ecosystem participants, etc.). Design and manifest creative solutions to meet these needs.
• Manage communication around any changes and updates from Filecoin Foundation.
• Ensure understanding of FIPs, Filecoin governance, and related topics by other Foundation team members, and the ecosystem at large.
• Coordinate feedback and work across Filecoin storage providers and technical advisory groups, as needed.
• Lead external messaging about Filecoin, Filecoin governance, and Filecoin development.
• Ensure that the Filecoin open source community thrives!

Your Profile

• Experience with leading open source governance and managing complex stakeholder projects and sensitive partnerships.
• Strong product management experience with crypto projects or networks.
• Experience working with and/or contributions to open-source software projects.
• Hyper detail-oriented, extremely organized, and pride yourself on your ability to structure large, ambiguous systems into sensible, tractable ones.
• An experienced governance practitioner who understands how to navigate the goals, objectives, and trade-offs of public program governance in various contexts
• Passion for creating a world-class developer experience.
• People management experience as this role will have 1-2 direct reports.
• Previous management of large ecosystems with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to think strategically, seeing the big-picture while also executing on the operations of the program.
• Ability to balance interests of many activities with good communication and listening skills, with the ability to teach others.
• Ease navigating multi-stakeholder environments and ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
• High context awareness and switching ability.
• A firm grasp on open source software development with intimate understanding on how projects get built and maintained over time.
• Comfort interacting with the public, able to build relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders, and ability for conflict resolution.
• Previous experience writing documentation on Github.

Extras

• Familiarity with needs of crypto consensus-providers/miners.
• Consider yourself a voracious learner.
• Experience managing technical software products from conception to launch.
• Experience as a startup founder, especially for software or technical companies.
• You do not need to have a technical background, but you do need to be deeply comfortable working with engineers day to day.

Having Filecoin-specific experience is a plus but not essential. We appreciate new perspectives! Salary is dependent on qualifications and years of experience. A reasonable estimate for total compensation of the current range for this positions is $180,000 – $210,000. At Filecoin Foundation, total compensation includes base salary, FIL/Tokens and exceptional benefits and perks.