About Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates, and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet — humanity's most important technology — as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (crypto, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

Key Summary:

You will supervise and direct written editorial content and resources for the Protocol Labs network. Your content will showcase groundbreaking projects and individuals across the network, educate Labbers on key web3 trends and solutions, and accelerate the growth of the entire network.

Protocol Labs Network Services

Protocol Labs is a research and development laboratory that has built and scaled multiple projects that have made great contributions to the web3 ecosystem. To fuel our next phase of growth, we’ve created a new team — Network Services — to provide services and capabilities that our projects and the broader ecosystem can leverage, including design, video, events, operations, content, IT, and more.

As the Managing Editor for Network Services, you will play a critical role in educating and connecting the network. You’ll identify key challenges that web3 teams face as they grow, then interview experts and conduct research to create useful guides to help solve them. You’ll also highlight teams and individuals across the network, helping network members get to know each other and collaborate more effectively.

As Network Services Editor at Protocol Labs, you will…

• Partner with internal and external collaborators to understand their main challenges, then prioritize a roadmap of guides and resources to answer them.
• Source and maintain a network of web3 subject matter experts, writers, and sources, then partner with them to develop clear, concise content that informs and educates network members.
• Regularly review and highlight projects, teams and individuals across the network, then share these findings broadly to help network members collaborate more effectively.
• Collaborate closely and collegially with various teams within and outside the PL Network Services team (designers, editors, writers, photographers, etc.) to develop and execute industry-leading content formats that are repeatable and engaging across multiple channels, such as blogs, articles, newsletters, and social media.
• Build processes and systems to track and manage the written content pipeline and its impact, then improve it.

You may be a fit for this role if you...

• Have excellent written communication skills in English.
• Are able to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures.
• Have experience communicating across a variety of mediums (e.g., blog, documentation, website copy, etc.).
• ​​Have spent 10+ years managing writers in a senior position, skills in communicating clear directives, and an ability to look at a problem several ways.
• Pride yourself in being a self-starter, thriving even without much direction.
• Have deep experience coordinating work across teams with different goals.
• A rigorous, process-driven work style backed by an ability to communicate effectively.
• Handle both complexity and ambiguity well.

Bonus points:

• Experience with open source communities / projects
• Experience with distributed orgs
• Additional language expertise

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What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?

Protocol Labs' mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

If you’re passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you.

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