WHY JOIN COMMUNITY LABS? 

Shape the internet’s future as a vital member of a passionate, innovative, and diverse team creating revolutionary products. Community Labs will unlock Arweave’s vast potential as a programmable decentralized storage layer by bringing powerful products to the world’s only permanent data storage network. Community Labs recently raised $30M to fund our protocol development, also covered by Bloomberg. 

WHAT IS COMMUNITY LABS? 

Community Labs (“CLabs” or “Company”) is a native software development company and venture studio focused on accelerating developer tools, use cases, and adoption of Arweave – a permanent storage blockchain. The Company is focused on developing foundational-level infrastructure for the next thousand founders and developers on Arweave. CLabs will develop products and tools in-house and support founders via the CLabs venture studio.

WHAT WILL YOU DO? 

As a Fellow, you will be the driving force behind a given protocol. You will be responsible for all activities throughout the development cycle: Ideation, Validation, Build, Go to Market and Scale. You will work closely with the Community Labs leadership team throughout the process to receive feedback and guidance on the protocol’s progress. 

Responsibilities and Areas of Focus:

• Ideate: Idea Generation 

  • Identify market opportunities, pain points, and trends that can be translated into viable protocol concepts.

  • Develop and refine innovative protocol ideas, business models, and value propositions through customer discovery.

• Validate: Business Planning and Strategy:

  • Create comprehensive business plans, including market research, financial projections, and growth strategies for each startup venture.

  • Define clear milestones, goals, and KPIs for each phase.

• Build: Product Development

  • Oversee product development, prototyping, and testing phases.

• Launch

  • Coordinate product launches and go-to-market strategies.

  • Build and maintain relationships with industry experts, mentors, advisors, and potential partners to support protocol growth.

• Scale: Growth and Exit Strategy 

  • Develop a comprehensive growth strategy and strategy to secure initial funding, which may involve pitching to investors, raising capital, or leveraging CLabs resources.

• Team Building:

  • Work with cross-functional teams, including co-founders, designers, developers, and marketers, to execute on the protocol idea.

  • Foster a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture within CLabs.

• Risk Management:

  • Identify potential risks and challenges and develop contingency plans.

  • Adapt to changing market conditions and pivot strategies as needed.

• Performance Evaluation:

  • Regularly assess the protocol’s performance and progress against established KPIs.

  • Make data-driven decisions to optimize and pivot as necessary.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 

• Proven experience in developing new technologies and bringing them to market

• Previous experience in working with high-performing engineering teams.

• Comfortable working in a remote environment, with excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Track record of contributing to the success of startups and/or small teams.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced and ever-changing landscape.

• Passion for the potential of decentralized technologies to reshape industries and empower users.

WHAT’S IT LIKE WORKING AT COMMUNITY LABS? 

• Collaborative, supportive, inclusive, and accessible environment that is open to new initiatives and ideas. 

• High-performing and ambitious team seeking to make a lasting impact on the way we democratize the internet. 

• Fast-paced, remote-first, and international organization where everyone is inspired by each other and grows together. 

Community Labs is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to apply, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. If you believe that you are a good fit for this role, please apply below.