Core Team Member, Ethereum for Public Infrastructure & Commons

As a Core Team Member for EPIC (Ethereum for Public Infrastructure and Commons) at the Ethereum Foundation, you will steer the organization's work with governments, multilateral and multinational institutions, NGOs, and civil society groups. You will empower decision makers to improve public infrastructure with decentralized technology and build civic tooling aligned with CROPS (Censorship Resistance, Open Source, Privacy, and Security). This role combines strategic vision with driving execution, positioning you to shape EPIC's work today and naturally step into broader team leadership as the initiative expands.

What you'll do

• Drive EPIC's strategic vision by planning and executing initiatives that advance Ethereum as credibly neutral infrastructure for digital public goods and public systems, ensuring all efforts align with Ethereum's core values and the Ethereum Foundation's mandate
• Build relationships and initiatives with governments, multilateral organizations, NGOs, and civil society groups, educating decision makers on Ethereum's capabilities through briefings, high-level architecture advice, and workshops
• Shape and incubate civic use cases by scoping requirements, convening stakeholders, and structuring initiatives so that internal and aligned ecosystem partners can help execute proofs-of-concept and pilots
• Connect public institutions with aligned domain experts and open-source development teams across the global Ethereum ecosystem
• Ensure EPIC operates strictly within its mandate, focusing on high-leverage educational and convening roles while avoiding turn-key product development, open-ended tech support, or projects that entrench user capture
• Lead internal and external contributors independently, with a small team, or collaborating with others in a remote environment with shifting priorities, taking on increasing responsibility for team coordination over time

What you bring

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in civic or institutional technology, public infrastructure policy, systems/solutions architecture, open-source strategy, or executive advisory
• A proven track record of building and managing relationships with senior public-sector stakeholders
• Strong conceptual and product-level understanding of Ethereum, Web3 infrastructure, open-source software principles, and privacy-preserving technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and decentralized identity
• Demonstrated capability to design educational frameworks, high-level system architecture briefings, and pilot programs
• Fluency in English
• Advocacy for civic tooling that protects individual autonomy, avoids user capture, and runs on open-source code
• Ability to explain complex decentralized systems to government executives while keeping developers grounded in real-world public sector requirements
• Systems thinking about narratives in govtech, digital sovereignty, and digital public infrastructure, with knowledge of how to help institutions navigate risks such as foreign dependency, vendor lock-in, and unauditable systems
• Resourcefulness and discipline in understanding the power of saying "no" to out-of-scope requests while remaining focused on high-leverage opportunities and considering second-order effects
• Optimism, adaptability, and leadership capability to navigate slow-moving institutional processes and shifting priorities with patience, clarity, and proactive execution

About Ethereum Foundation

The Ethereum Foundation is a global non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Ethereum and related technologies. The foundation allocates resources to critical projects, serves as a valued voice within the Ethereum ecosystem, and advocates for Ethereum to the outside world.