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title: 'Social Media Marketing Lead at Walrus Foundation'
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# Social Media Marketing Lead at Walrus Foundation

- **Company:** Walrus Foundation
- **Location:** North, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/walrus/8dd70d2b-3e5e-4d63-84d2-2dc46b7ee0c3

## 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 a strategic, creative, and detail-oriented Social Media Marketing Manager to own our social channels and lead social-first initiatives across the Walrus Foundation's Global Marketing team.

Responsibilities: Campaigns & Launch Support:

- Plan and execute social media-led campaigns from concept through measurement.
- Support partner and product-led launches with coordinated social content and promotion, including managing drip marketing campaigns for launches.
- Assist in the planning, execution, and tracking of integrated marketing campaigns across digital, social, email, and events.
- Execute ad-hoc partner and product launches as needed, moving quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Coordinate with regional marketing and paid social teams to ensure alignment and support during key campaigns and launches.

Social Media Management & Content:

- Explore, evaluate, and manage the brand's entry and presence on new and emerging social platforms.
- Run social listening to track sentiment, surface trends and conversations, and inform content and campaign strategy.
- Own daily social management and content creation across all Walrus channels.
- Build and scale the Walrus YouTube channel by developing a content roadmap, managing uploads, and optimizing content for maximum reach.
- Build and maintain a formulaic content schedule — a repeatable cadence of content formats and series that keeps channels consistently active.
- Write and edit compelling social copy tailored to various channels and audiences.
- Own the organization, scheduling, and execution of Walrus-hosted X Spaces.

Executive Communications:

- Amplify executive communications across social channels, working closely with the Comms and Exec Social teams.
- Support leadership's social media accounts, including writing, engagement, and content strategy.

KOLs & Creators:

- Identify, build, and manage relationships with KOLs and creators to extend campaign reach and credibility.
- Coordinate creator content for campaigns, launches, and events.

Events Activation:

- Lead social activation around events, driving awareness and attendance at specific events.
- Assist in organizing and executing marketing events, such as conferences, on-the-ground activations, and sponsorships, including logistics and design needs.

Project Management, Collaboration & Communication:

- Manage marketing projects from conception to completion, working with stakeholders across multiple teams to ensure timely delivery.
- Maintain project and editorial schedules and track progress to ensure timely delivery of all campaign elements.
- Support the execution of email marketing campaigns, including drip sequences, list management, content creation, and performance analysis.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Design, DevRel, Education, Growth, Product Marketing, Partner Marketing, and Comms, to align marketing efforts with business objectives.
- Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and external partners to ensure cohesive and consistent messaging.

Qualifications:

- 6 – 9 years proven experience in social media marketing or a similar role, with demonstrated ownership of brand social channels.
- Experience working with KOLs and creators, including sourcing, relationship management, and campaign coordination.
- Experience running social listening and translating insights into content and campaign decisions.
- Experience managing drip/lifecycle marketing campaigns tied to launches.
- Experience supporting executive or leadership communications on social.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in marketing tools and platforms, such as social media management and listening tools, email marketing software, and content management systems.
- Solid understanding of digital marketing principles, including copywriting, SEO, PPC, and analytics.
- Creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced 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