Overview

The Filecoin Foundation (FF) is an organization that facilitates governance of the Filecoin network, funds critical development projects, supports the growth of the Filecoin ecosystem, and advocates for Filecoin and the decentralized web. In 2017, the creators of Filecoin envisioned that an independent Filecoin Foundation would serve as the long-term governance body for the Filecoin Ecosystem. They gave the Foundation the mandate to “grow an open ecosystem for decentralized storage” and to “give developers an open and sustainable platform to build, enhance and monetize those services.” They wanted the Foundation to be modeled on Foundations for other open source projects like the Apache Software Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation and the Linux Foundation. The Filecoin Foundation operates independently of Protocol Labs, the organization that designed and built the Filecoin network. As a member of our early-stage team, you will have the opportunity to help define our growth as the organization scales. This is a full-time position, remote from anywhere in the world.

Job Description and Responsibilities

You will be the critical connection between Filecoin Foundation (FF) and the miners that are integral stakeholders in the Filecoin economy. You will seek to deeply understand the miner experience, miner needs, miner perspective, and will act as an advocate and representative of the miner community for Foundation activities. This work will include elements of community development, advocacy, and technical writing. Initially, you will focus on helping miners succeed today. Over time, your work will expand to include broadening the funnel of incoming miners and other aspects of maintaining a healthy miner community.

Miner experience engineering (50%)

– Become embedded in the Filecoin miner community to deeply understand miner concerns and needs.

– Work with storage miners, retrieval miners, and repair miners to understand the unique needs and concerns of each community

– Develop a forward-looking strategy for what the Filecoin miner experience should be over the next 1, 5, 10 years.

– Develop education and documentation to help miners succeed

– Contribute to the Filecoin spec.

– Represent miner interests to the FF for initiatives, programs, and events.

– Keep others at FF up to speed about the miner experience and lifecycle, including interests, challenges, and needs of miners.

– Identify gaps to be filled to meet the needs of Filecoin miners, and design and manifest creative solutions to meet these needs.

Miner working group (30%)

– Lead the miner working group, a group that helps us gain insights into the needs and concerns of miners

– Develop additional groups and sub-groups as the miner community grows and changes (e.g. for the different miner types, miners in different geographies, etc.)

Other community management (20%)

– Anticipate programs needed for continued miner community development and support. Design and implement programs as needed.

– Help inform Foundation work in other areas about potential effects on the miner community.

– Contribute to answering open questions, supporting key community initiatives, building out documentation and other docs related to the Filecoin project.

Your profile

  • Previous work experience in technical community advocate related roles, such as a developer advocate
  • A deep understanding of blockchain communities, how they learn and engage, and their motivations and interests
  • Ability to think strategically, seeing the big-picture while also executing on the operations of the program.
  • Ability to balance interests of many activities on your plate.
  • Exceptional public speaking and technical writing abilities, with the ability to explain Filecoin and its value proposition to miners.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal oversight.
  • High-context awareness and switching ability.
  • A firm grasp of crypto mining, with an intimate understanding of the interests of miners.
  • Comfort interacting with the public, able to build relationships with a diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Prior experience contributing to and advocating for technical communities or crypto projects. Involvement in planning in-person and virtual events to convene miners.

Extras

  • Proficient in Mandarin
  • Experience as a miner for one or more cryptocurrencies
  • Self-taught in some field, and consider yourself a voracious learner.
  • Experience as a startup founder, especially for software or technical companies or work experience in an early-stage startup team.

Having Filecoin-specific experience is a plus but not essential. We appreciate new perspectives! Salary is dependent on qualifications and years of experience. Salary to also include % paid in Filecoin (FIL).