As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper).
As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.
We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organizations priorities.
About Logos:
A group of Status Contributors are also involved in a new project, called Logos, and this particular role will enable you to also focus on this project. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimized, corruption resistant governing services and social institutions to underserved citizens.
Logos infrastructure will provide a base for the provisioning of the next-generation of governing services and social institutions - paving the way to economic opportunities to those who need them most, whilst respecting basic human rights through the network s design.
You can read more about Logos here: in this small handbook for mindful readers like yourself.
About CommsHub:
The Communications team, known as CommsHub an interdisciplinary team of technologists, designers, strategists, artists, campaigners, researchers, and communications specialists is at the heart of these efforts. It is tasked with designing and delivering a purpose led, multilayered, and multifaceted Communications Strategy, consisting of many streams, aspects and features, and aimed at balancing our commercial and political priorities.
We want to build a powerful and action-oriented movement of individuals and groups aimed at not just imagining a different future, but actively participating in shaping it.
To this end, our commercial communications the marketing and communications of our business units and their work should ensure clarity, purpose and character. Our political communications should be precise, accurate and exact, but also inspiring, motivating, impactful, and energetic.
CommsHub consists of seven units:
The Role:
CommsHub seeks a competent and qualified Digital Comms Lead to assist in the delivery of a compelling and impactful story. This role is positioned within the Movement Building and Campaign Activation unit.
If you believe you re able to successfully communicate a very complex message to a truly global audience, this could be a great opportunity. Building a strong, story-based narrative online is at the heart of our mission and this is an exciting opportunity for someone to help lay the foundation of what is to come.
What you bring:
You have the creativity and passion to assist in crafting our long term narrative, build engaged communities and showcase our pioneering technology. You grasp that our commercial communications the marketing and communications of our business units and their work should ensure clarity, purpose and character. You understand that political communications should be precise, accurate and exact, but also inspiring, motivating, impactful, and energetic.
In this role, you have primary responsibility for designing and delivering a digital communications plan aimed at achieving our diverse set of objectives. As such, you are expected to collaborate with contributors across the organisation to design and execute our commercial communications plan.
Key responsibilities:
You ideally will have:
Bonus points:
[Don t worry if you don t meet all of these criteria, we d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].
Compensation
The expected compensation range for this role is $70,000 - $100,000 (negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process.
We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
Hiring process:
The hiring process for this role will be:
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