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Solana Foundation

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

🤝 Non-profit

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Non-profit • Crypto • Web 3

Solana Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to promoting the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana blockchain ecosystem. The foundation supports initiatives like Stake Pools, which enhance censorship resistance and decentralization, and provides grants and funding to projects that further these goals. Solana Foundation also runs a Delegation Program to encourage high-quality validator operations and incentivizes participation through its innovative liquid staking solutions. With a focus on building a censorship-resistant network, the foundation plays a vital role in expanding the decentralized finance (DeFi) space and the overall Solana network.

📋 Description

• Define and maintain Solana’s global narrative around a handful of defensible claims • Build and personally maintain tier-one media relationships across U.S. business, financial, technology, and crypto-native press • Own reputation and issues management across network incidents, client bugs, application-layer exploits, validator disputes, and other high-stakes moments • Establish severity tiers, named decision-makers, rehearsed processes, and pre-drafted response language • Provide executive positioning and communications counsel to Foundation leadership • Build a bench of credible external technical voices who can explain and advocate for Solana • Support ecosystem teams with launches, founder media training, and shared narrative infrastructure • Translate protocol and governance changes for technical and non-technical audiences • Coordinate with Policy and Legal on regulatory and legislative moments, including work alongside the Solana Policy Institute • Develop a measurement framework focused on narrative accuracy and reputation outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• Roughly 10 to 15 years in communications, with meaningful time in a high-scrutiny environment • Personal experience running a situation where the facts were unclear, the clock was running, and the wrong sentence would have made it worse • Direct relationships with tier-one business, financial and technology journalists • Ability to hold a technical conversation with engineers and produce something true, accurate and repeatable by non-technical audiences • Experience earning coverage on a hard story with no news hook • Track record of operating with influence rather than authority in coalitions, consortia, federated organizations, or open-source projects • Hands-on communications practice, including drafting statements • Composure in high-pressure situations • Fluency with AI tooling for monitoring, research, drafting, message testing, and adversarial review • Experience communicating a decentralized or multi-stakeholder system is a bonus • Experience telling a principal no while preserving the relationship is a bonus • Experience building a communications function is a bonus • Opinions and informed perspective on effective crypto communications are a bonus