--- title: 'Community Growth (Contractor) at Walrus Foundation' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/community-growth-contractor-walrus-foundation-north-e6xd4parmwdp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-07' --- # Community Growth (Contractor) at Walrus Foundation - **Company:** Walrus Foundation - **Location:** North, United States - **Employment:** contract - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-08-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/walrus/aa964a52-1a01-456b-bf82-d1c225385bda ## Job description Mission To advance the adoption of the Walrus Protocol – a Verifiable Data Platform for AI Builders Vision To create a foundation for AI builders to store and manage their data, making that data persistent, portable, and under their control across apps, providers, and agents. We are in search of an outbound, relationship-driven Community Growth Coordinator to build Walrus's presence in AI and non-web3 communities, and to support the execution of community programs and events designed and led by the Community function. This role is defined first by the ability to build real presence in communities Walrus doesn't yet have — every other responsibility supports that goal. This is a 6 month contract ## RESPONSIBILITIES Community Growth (Outside Web3): - Find new communities and opportunities, with a focus on AI-native and non-web3 spaces — scouting, identifying fit, and prioritizing where to invest time. - Build and maintain genuine relationships with those communities, not just initial contact. - Drive engagement and support the activation motion once a relationship is established. - Engage directly in community discussions across target communities; track recurring themes, questions, and pain points, and surface what's emerging as input for future community programs. - Bring community observations into regular syncs so they inform ongoing planning, not just sit with one person. - Contribute to Reddit strategy, moderation, and content sourcing, working alongside the moderator team. Program & Community Support: - First-pass review of applications for community programs. - Judging and evaluation of program participants/winners, alongside the program lead. - Support the setup of new programs — website, documentation, and logistics. - Day-to-day coordination and management of moderators, in partnership with the Discord lead moderator. Events (IRL & Online): - Maintain visibility across all events — tracking status and next steps. - Support logistics for in-person events. - Support preparation of X Spaces, AMA's. - Build and maintain a simple system for tracking event status and feedback, ensuring outcomes are captured consistently across all events. ## QUALIFICATIONS Must have: - Demonstrated, active presence within AI-focused, builder, or other non-web3 online communities — not just familiarity, but real standing, relationships, or a track record of participation and reputation within them. - Experience initiating and growing relationships with new communities, not just managing existing ones. Strong plus: - Comfortable at adapting and localizing existing programs for new audiences, working closely with program leads on execution. - Strong organizational skills and process discipline — able to independently manage applications, evaluations, and payment workflows without things falling through the cracks. - Experience coordinating or supporting events. - Familiarity with Discord, Reddit, X and/or other channels as community and engagement platforms. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical or product concepts for non-technical audiences. - Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, often unscripted environment. ## About Walrus Foundation ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Walrus Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and growth of the Walrus ecosystem, providing a verifiable and programmable decentralized data storage platform built on Sui. - **Entity Type**: Private (raised $140M in private token sale) - **Headquarters**: Sui, Balochistan, Pakistan (as per LinkedIn) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/walrus-foundation) - **Founded**: The Walrus mainnet launched on March 27, 2025; the Foundation was established to support the protocol [blog.walrus.xyz](https://blog.walrus.xyz/walrus-foundation-fundraising/) - **Founders**: Created by Mysten Labs, the team of ex-Meta engineers behind Sui (individual founder names not publicly listed) [walrus.xyz](https://www.walrus.xyz/about/) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Decentralized data storage, blockchain infrastructure - **Target customers**: Builders and developers in AI and onchain finance (B2B, developer-focused) - **Mission or purpose**: To transform storage into a programmable, interactive resource that is verifiable, always available, and private — enabling applications where unverifiable data can cause irrecoverable losses [walrus.xyz](https://walrus.xyz/) ## Products & Services - **[Walrus Protocol]**: A decentralized storage platform that stores large binary files (blobs) with onchain proofs, fast reads/writes (~800ms), and resilience to two-thirds node failure. Data can be managed via Move-based smart contracts on Sui. Supports media, AI datasets, websites, and blockchain history. [walrus.xyz](https://www.walrus.xyz/about/) - **[WAL Token]**: The native utility token used to pay for storage and secure the network through staking. Offers predictable USD pricing ($0.023/GB/month for verifiable decentralized storage). [blog.walrus.xyz](https://blog.walrus.xyz/walrus-foundation-fundraising/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private token sale with no valuation stated) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $140 million (private token sale announced April 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Standard Crypto (lead), a16z crypto, Electric Capital, Creditcoin, Lvna Capital, Protagonist, Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, Karatage, RW3 Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, The Raptor Group [blog.walrus.xyz](https://blog.walrus.xyz/walrus-foundation-fundraising/) - **Growth Signals**: 15 employees as of mid-2026 (+187.5% year-over-year headcount growth); operates in 9 countries; $356TB of active data stored; 200+ ecosystem partners; 2,625 LinkedIn followers [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/walrus-foundation) ## Competitive Advantages - **Verifiability**: Onchain cryptographic proofs allow independent data verification at any time, preventing poisoned datasets in AI and ensuring auditability in DeFi. - **Programmability**: Move smart contracts on Sui enable dynamic data interactions (e.g., access control, automated payments) — unlike traditional storage, Walrus treats data as a programmable resource. - **Performance**: Fast reads/writes (~800ms) combined with decentralized availability, achieving internet-scale speed without central bottlenecks. - **Privacy by design**: Users control exactly who can see their data via smart contract permissions. ## Strategic Focus - **DeFi and AI adoption**: Deepen integration with onchain finance and AI workloads, enabling agentic payments and verifiable AI model training. - **Mainnet launch and scaling**: After March 27 mainnet launch, focus on growing developer adoption and building a robust ecosystem of dApps. - **Predictable pricing**: Introduce USD-denominated storage costs to attract enterprise and traditional Web2 builders. - **Grants and RFPs**: Support builders via the Walrus Foundation to solve data challenges in high-stakes environments. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Building frontier infrastructure at the intersection of blockchain, AI, and decentralized storage; founded by the team behind Sui (ex-Meta engineers). - **Remote/hybrid**: Not explicitly stated, but employees are distributed across 9 countries (UK, US, Indonesia, Portugal, Cyprus, Canada, India, China, Vietnam) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/walrus-foundation) - **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on a fast-growing decentralized protocol with top-tier crypto investors (a16z, Standard Crypto); impact-driven mission; small, high-leverage team with strong talent from Google, Sui Foundation, Picsart, and others. ## Sources 1. [walrus.xyz](https://www.walrus.xyz/about/) – About Walrus, features, and team background 2. [walrus.xyz](https://walrus.xyz/) – Product overview, WAL token, and use cases 3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/walrus-foundation) – Company details, headcount, locations, funding 4. [blog.walrus.xyz](https://blog.walrus.xyz/walrus-foundation-fundraising/) – Fundraising announcement, mainnet launch, pricing 5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/walrus) – Careers page references ## Other roles at Walrus Foundation - [Staff Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-product-designer-walrus-foundation-europe-ggdj8x65tcbf) — Europe - [Social Media Marketing Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/social-media-marketing-lead-walrus-foundation-north-akzj7fp9wbz6) — North, United States