About Status

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. 

With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.

As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. 

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 organization’s priorities.

About Logos

A group of Status Contributors is also involved in a new community lead 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 for 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.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to the design and delivery of our comprehensive, action-oriented plan of grassroots campaigning activities with the aim of creating and empowering thriving online communities.
• Day-to-day responsibility for our community building, grassroots campaigning, and movement building activities.
• Day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that our grassroots volunteers, activists, and community members are engaged, active, and empowered to proactively participate in a range of initiatives aimed at contributing to the overall goals and objectives of the organisation

You ideally will have: 

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!

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Experience in working for or with political, campaigning, civil society, human rights organisations/NGOs as a community organiser or community manager.
• Proven track record of working with activist communities, helping them with strategizing, creating and building sustainable campaigns.
• Proven track record in designing and implementing grassroots community initiatives aimed at bringing about change.
• Demonstrable experience in successfully scaling-up community building and grassroots campaigning operations and activities.
• Experience working for an open source organisation or a political aligned organisation to Status.
• Great understanding of the political climate and developments in the privacy, data & digital rights, and Blockchain space.
• Strong alignment to Our Principles https://status.im/about/#our-principles.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in Blockchain and peer-to-peer technology.
• Experience in working with web3 grassroots communities.
• Experience working remotely.
• Experience working for an open source organisation or a political aligned organisation to Status.
• You identify with the Cypherpunk movement

The hiring process for this role will be:

1. Screening call with Angel, one of Status’ Recruiters
2. Interview with Santiago, member of Comms team
3. Final interview with Al, the Head of Comms team