VP International Communications
The Solana Foundation is a Swiss non-profit foundation based in Zug that supports decentralization, adoption, security, grants, and validator delegation for the Solana ecosystem.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
About Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit steward of the Solana ecosystem. Its current activities include funding public goods, supporting open-source development and research, operating a validator delegation program, and promoting network decentralization, security, and adoption. It is distinct from Solana Labs, which transferred protocol intellectual property to the Foundation in 2020.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own Solana’s global narrative and reputation, build top-tier media relationships, and manage high-stakes communications issues. You will advise leadership, support ecosystem teams, translate technical changes for varied audiences, coordinate with Policy and Legal, and build measurement systems for narrative accuracy and reputation outcomes.
Requirements
- Approximately 10 to 15 years of communications experience in a high-scrutiny environment
- Experience managing situations with unclear facts and high time pressure
- Direct relationships with tier-one business, financial, and technology journalists
- Ability to translate technical concepts accurately for non-technical audiences
- Experience earning coverage for difficult stories without a news hook
- Experience operating through influence in coalitions, consortia, federated organizations, or open-source projects
- Hands-on communications drafting experience
- Fluency with AI tooling for monitoring, research, drafting, message testing, and adversarial review
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain a global narrative for Solana
- Build and maintain tier-one media relationships
- Lead reputation and issues management during high-stakes incidents
- Provide executive positioning and communications counsel
- Build a bench of credible external technical voices
- Support ecosystem teams with launches, media training, and shared narrative infrastructure
- Translate protocol and governance changes for technical and non-technical audiences
- Coordinate with Policy and Legal on regulatory and legislative communications
- Develop measurement frameworks for narrative accuracy and reputation outcomes