Job Description
Monad Labs is creating the foundation for a new world of powerful decentralized applications. We've developed the first parallel EVM executor, and have paired it with significant innovations on consensus, pipelining, and storage to build the Monad blockchain, an ultra-performant EVM-equivalent blockchain supporting 10,000 TPS while remaining highly decentralized.

Founded by Jump Trading alums, our team solves challenging problems in distributed systems engineering and low-latency optimization, authoring software innovations that enable a new, high-performance decentralized system that is backward-compatible with existing EVM apps and Ethereum infrastructure. We are backed by notable leaders in the crypto space, including Dragonfly, Cobie, and Hasu.

Our mission is to enable a new universe of decentralized apps—use cases and user flows that are currently impossible—by drastically reducing EVM computation costs. Ultimately, our work will unleash the power of decentralization to make the world more efficient and fair.

The Role

After strict focus on developing our core infra and technology, the Monad blockchain is quickly approaching its Testnet v0 release. Ahead of that launch, we are growing our team (currently almost all engineers) to include a Research Writer.

As Research Writer, you will become the voice of Monad Labs and an evangelist for the Monad blockchain. Your work will educate many users and developers, and will help Monad's community grow rapidly.

This role is on the critical path of Monad's growth.

Requirements
Prior experience/skills:

Excellent knowledge of major crypto protocols, especially L1s and L2s (e.g. consensus mechanisms, economic security design, interoperability). Some examples of topics you should know well: PoW in Bitcoin, PoS in Ethereum, tendermint, IBC, MEV, PBS, and others.
You've written about technical crypto topics in a clear and engaging manner
You're crypto-native: you're immersed in crypto culture, and aware of the prevailing personalities, memes, and major narratives and projects
You have experience writing engaging Twitter threads
Required personal attributes:

Attention to detail
Creativity
Resourcefulness and independence
Ambition to have your writing reach many people
Technical curiosity
Clarity of thought
A sense of humor
Enthusiasm about learning and teaching
Enthusiasm for Monad's mission of enabling far more decentralized computation
Bonuses:

Experience developing your own publication (substack etc)
Previous experience at a L1 or L2 blockchain protocol
Experience with Dune Analytics or more generally with querying blockchain data for insights
Knowledge of Solidity and smart contract security
CS background
A love for memes
What you'll be doing
You'll conduct research on technical topics related to Monad's mission of decentralization and scale. These topics will range from Monad-specific innovations and performance, to more general insights about the crypto space and current user or app behavior.
You'll convert that research into insightful articles and twitter threads that educate the community about Monad's technology, and what the future will look like with Monad in the mix.
You'll develop content for varying levels of technical background (everyday users, app developers, and researchers).
You'll write for various platforms, from long-form (medium and mirror.xyz) to twitter, reddit, and podcasts.
You'll work alongside other members of our team to build a coherent brand and voice for Monad.
You'll stay up-to-date on apps, topics, and narratives, and incorporate current events into your writing. Your knowledge of the state of crypto will help inform our team's strategy with respect to partnerships and new initiatives.
You'll help Monad's presence grow to be as big and engaged as possible.
Why work with us
You'll be at the forefront of Monad's success story, communicating our unique selling points and sharing our vision of the future
You'll shape the culture as an early employee and make impactful contributions from day one
You'll work with great people
You'll receive a competitive salary and equity package
Your work will be deeply impactful, helping crypto and decentralization to scale, and ultimately paving the way for a new world of dapps that improve many people's lives.
Salary and benefits

Minimum full-time salary of $75,000 - $150,000. (**This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary; a final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.)

Monad Labs' benefits include unlimited and encouraged paid time off; health coverage; home office equipment stipend; monthly wellness/fitness stipend; and 10 company-observed holidays.

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 (web3, cryptography, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

Key Summary:
As a Technical Content Strategist, you will work in a cross-functional team collaborating with stakeholders from research, economics, marketing, design, sales, and beyond to understand the cryptoeconomic landscape and communicate that with clarity to the world.

Content creation, blogs and articles, technical papers
Working with technical and research staff on CEL to distill and publish research findings
Social media management - drafting posts, scheduling posts
Community engagement
Marketing, branding, design, positioning, strategy
About the CryptoEconLab Team
CryptoEconLab at PL aspires to become a hub for research on economic incentives, coordination games, and novel marketplaces. As an interdisciplinary study, cryptoeconomics involves a constellation of knowledge including computer science, network science, statistics, economics, and system engineering. In an increasingly networked and open world, cryptoeconomics will play a bigger role in coordinating human and machine activities and building a better future.

Our team strives to empower projects and you will be a key growth hire to lead our community engagement efforts.

As Content Strategist, you will become one of the voices of the CryptoEconLab and an evangelist for the products, mechanisms and economic designs that benefit the Protocol Labs community. Your work will educate many users and developers, and will help the Protocol Labs community grow rapidly.

As Cryptoeconomic Content Strategist at Protocol Labs, you will…
Independently gather information from subject matter experts, feature requirement documents, case studies, social content, user stories, and specifications, to develop and write user guides and other technical content
Interact with a global cryptoeconomic research team to showcase their expertise to the broader Web3 community
Work with CryptoEconLab leadership on strategic partnerships, events and content
Collaborate on and review documentation
Build documentation with static site generators
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
Flawless English language skills: demonstrably excellent communicator
Experience in improving research documentation and social content
Examples of your technical writing on public URLs (or a comprehensive portfolio)
Self-organized and autonomous when required; while adept at building relationships within other cross-functional teams (remotely)
Master at quickly grasping complex technical concepts and making them easily understandable
Demonstrate an ability to author documentation in Github or related sites
Minimum 2 years of relevant experience
Bonus points:
Experience in receiving feedback and giving other writers feedback on their work
You’re crypto-native: immersed in crypto culture, and aware of the prevailing personalities, memes, and major narratives and projects
You’ve been writing about crypto for at least a year and can write about technical topics like protocol economic design in a clear and engaging manner
An understanding of CSS/HTML
Experience with a wide range of technical writing for example, user guides, help articles, high-level overviews, API documentation, knowledge base documentation, UX microcontent
Technical background
A passion and love for trying new food
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.