Governance Program Manager

November 3

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Filecoin Foundation

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Web 3 • Crypto

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

• 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. • 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. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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. • 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.

🏖️ Benefits

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