Braze is hiring a Governance Program Manager to be at the heart of Filecoin’s decentralized decision-making. You will build the systems that help thousands of participants coordinate effectively and position Filecoin governance as the reference model for the industry.
What You'll Do
- 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.
- Build a living framework for the Governance Lifecycle, backed by clear specifications, metrics, and documents.
- 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.
- 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.
What We're Looking For
- 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.
Nice to Have
- Proficiency with GitHub and GitHub APIs for managing governance workflows.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- GitHub
- GitHub APIs
- Governance smart contracts
Team & Environment
You will be a member of an early-stage team at the Filecoin Foundation.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $125,000-$150,000/yr + equity: FIL/Tokens
- Exceptional benefits and perks
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position, open to candidates from anywhere in the world. The Filecoin Foundation supports a remote, collaborative, and inclusive working culture.
Braze is an equal opportunity employer.
