Governance Program Manager

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.

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. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ship governance tooling upgrades. Develop and maintain governance playbooks, charters, and process frameworks. 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.