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# Circles: Regional Lead (Part Time) at IFT 

- **Company:** IFT 
- **Location:** Global
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother/jobs/8077853

## Job description

The role:

Logos is a movement to rebuild civil society through  self-organised civic action, and a technology stack to enable new ways of organising. We believe that current systems are failing us, and institutions need to be re-built from the ground up.

Within Logos, the Movement team supports a growing community of local activist organisations called Circles. These groups are active in cities around the world working on issues that impact their community: from organising pop-up health clinics and teaching financial literacy, to creating community gardens and building tech for civic fundraising. We provide training, 1:1 support, tools, and technology to Circles - helping them scale their impact and evolve into a network of mutual aid: with the long-term goal of creating a global Parallel Society: a group of people and organisations united by shared values that organise into a new extra-governmental sovereign economy.

We are hiring a Regional Circles Lead to support the existing program as it scales and to provide administrative and organisational support to our team and local Circle Stewards. The ideal location is Lisbon, Portugal, although, the movement team are open to other locations also. Please note: we have a fantastic lead for our Africa Circles (as such, no current openings in Africa).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Key responsibilities:

- Support Logos Circles by assisting volunteer community organisers in scoping and completing “winnable issues” (community impact projects) to better self-select and execute activities at the local level, while maintaining continued and cohesive growth.
- Guide and mentor new local Circle Stewards using the formats provided by IFT.
- Manage documentation, briefs and reporting to make sure IFT has readily available content to assist Logos Collective Association to promote Circle narratives, outputs and wins.
- Aggregate regional reporting and metrics to improve visibility and facilitate coordination across Circles and the broader Logos network.
- Act as the primary liaison between Logos and Circle stewards, helping to facilitate any logistics or support provided by Logos, such as shared campaign assets, resources and general advice.
- Attend local events to promote Logos Circles, build community visibility, and connect interested participants with local Logos Circles.
- Produce standardised and regular reports for regional output and progress.
- The ideal candidate will be based in the greater Lisbon (Portugal) area and able to take over management of the local Lisbon Circle and it’s ongoing civic action activities.

You will ideally have:

- Experience doing civic good community organising on a voluntary or paid basis.
- A basic understanding of privacy, non-governmental civic organising and it’s implications on civil life, alongside the implications of technology on these issues (decentralised technology and otherwise)
- An excitement to learn about blockchain, crypto, and decentralised technology, and it’s political and civic implications.
- Experience managing projects and excellent organisational skills
- A strong alignment to our principles: https://logos.co/manifesto/

Bonus points:

- Membership in a civic organisation such as Kiwanis International, University volunteer organisations, community gardens, grassroots organisations, etc.
- Experience working for an open source organisation.

Hiring process:

- Initial conversation with People Operations
- Conversation with Amelia from the Movement Team
- Submission of Proposal
- Conversation with Kirsten from the Movement Team
- Training

Compensation:

This is a part time role, equating to approximately 20hrs per week. We're happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

## About IFT 

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Institute of Free Technology (IFT) is a mission-driven Web3 tech startup studio and venture builder that develops, funds, and scales open-source public goods—including the Logos ecosystem of decentralized infrastructure protocols—to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Non-profit / Venture Studio; funded by substantial historical capital deployment)
- **Headquarters**: Distributed / Remote-first (no central physical HQ; team is globally distributed)
- **Founded**: 2017 (as Status) / IFT as current entity structure
- **Founders**: Carl, Jarrad Hope, and others (Status co-founders)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Web3 Infrastructure, Decentralized Communication Protocols, Blockchain Technology, Open-Source Software Development
- **Target customers**: Developers, dApp builders, Web3 projects, network states, and privacy-conscious end-users (B2B primarily, B2C via consumer apps like Status)
- **Mission**: To build public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age, guided by principles of liberty, censorship resistance, security, privacy, and inclusivity.

## Products & Services
- **Logos (logos.co)**: A movement supporting the development of the decentralized web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack empowers users while upholding civil liberties. Includes:
  - **Status (status.app)**: An open-source, privacy-focused messaging app and mobile browser for the Ethereum network.
  - **Status Network (status.network)**: The underlying decentralized communication network.
  - **Nimbus (nimbus.team)**: A lightweight, efficient Ethereum execution and consensus client.
  - **Keycard (keycard.tech)**: A hardware wallet for secure key management.
  - **Waku**: A decentralized, privacy-preserving peer-to-peer messaging protocol (under Logos).
  - **Vac**: A research and development team building secure, private messaging protocols (including MLS-based group messaging).
- **IFT Venture Studio**: Provides financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support to incubate new startups from idea to market.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private non-profit entity)
- **Key Metric**: Team of 200+ core contributors (as of 2026), plus a growing community of contributors
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by substantial historical capital deployment from Web3-native angels, VCs, family offices, and institutional allocators. The organization is actively fundraising for Logos, targeting crypto VCs, HNWIs, and family offices with a thesis in privacy infrastructure.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring across engineering, research, and fundraising roles; expanding the Logos ecosystem; developing frontier decentralized messaging protocols (MLS, Waku); growing headcount from a smaller base to 200+ core contributors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Mission-driven focus**: Unlike for-profit Web3 projects, IFT is a non-profit dedicated to public goods, which attracts top talent aligned with its principles.
- **Full-stack venture studio model**: Provides comprehensive support (tech, legal, ops, brand) to incubate projects from concept to market, creating a strong ecosystem of interoperable protocols.
- **Deep technical moat**: Building frontier technologies (decentralized group messaging over MLS, peer-to-peer protocols, zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography) with no established playbooks, giving them a first-mover advantage.
- **Strong brand and community**: Status and Logos have established credibility in the Web3 space, with a loyal community and a clear manifesto.

## Strategic Focus
- **Logos ecosystem growth**: The primary current priority is building and scaling the Logos stack of decentralized infrastructure protocols.
- **Fundraising for Logos**: Actively raising capital from institutional investors, family offices, and crypto VCs to fund the next phase of development.
- **Decentralized messaging**: Advancing the state of the art in private, decentralized group messaging (MLS, Waku) as a core pillar of the freer internet vision.
- **Open-source development**: Continuing to build all technology as public goods, with minimal hierarchy and a globally distributed, asynchronous team.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly mission-driven, with a strong emphasis on liberty, privacy, and decentralization. The team is described as flat, with minimal hierarchy, no fixed work hours, and a high degree of autonomy.
- **Remote-first**: Fully distributed team (200+ contributors) across the globe. Work is async and remote-friendly.
- **Engineering culture**: Engineers have real ownership over frontier tech work. The environment is described as "small team, many hats" where contributors solve hard problems without established playbooks.
- **Compensation**: Competitive, negotiable base compensation, paid in any mix of fiat/crypto. Performance bonuses for certain roles. Compensation ranges visible for some roles (e.g., $81k–$150k for engineering roles).
- **Notable perks**: Work on truly cutting-edge Web3 infrastructure; contribute to open-source public goods; be part of a movement, not just a company; high autonomy and flexibility.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse Jobs Board - IFT](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother)
2. [IFT Website](https://free.technology/)
3. [Logos Website](https://logos.co/)
4. [Decentralised Messaging Engineer - Rust Job Posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/iftother/jobs/7896004)
5. [Senior Investor Relations & Fundraising Manager Job Posting (via EU Remote Jobs)](https://euremotejobs.com/job/senior-investor-relations-fundraising-manager/)
6. [IFT Jobs on RemoteOtter](https://remoteotter.com/company/ift/jobs/remote-community-fundraising-lead_9824e51d-2554-48ff-a2a0-50f04f1497a1)
7. [IFT Jobs on Web3 Career](https://web3.career/web3-companies/iftother)
8. [Status Website](https://status.app/)
9. [Nimbus Website](https://nimbus.team/)
10. [Keycard Website](https://keycard.tech/en)

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- [Head of Business Development - Logos](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-business-development-logos-ift-global-8027hwvy98vr) — Global
- [Head of Commercial - Develp](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-commercial-develp-ift-global-abaaf1b5he73) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Activist Builder](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-activist-builder-ift-global-sve55jvbhy0a) — Global
- [Volunteer position: Logos Circles Organiser](https://feeny.ai/job/volunteer-position-logos-circles-organiser-ift-global-czssxf1eejsf) — Global
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