Senior Program Manager, Governance

January 8

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Filecoin Foundation

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Filecoin Foundation is dedicated to preserving humanity’s most important information through its support and governance of the Filecoin decentralized storage network. As the largest decentralized storage network in the world, the foundation's mission includes facilitating open source governance of the Filecoin network, funding research and development for decentralized technologies, and supporting the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem and community. The foundation is deeply involved in advancing the capabilities of the Filecoin network, providing resources for developers, and supporting various use cases in decentralized storage solutions.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🌐 Web 3

₿ Crypto

📋 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• Total compensation includes base salary, FIL/Tokens and exceptional benefits and perks.