Company: Storacha

Location: Flexible - Remote

About Us:

🌶️ Storacha is a newly minted spin-out from Protocol Labs Venture Studio. Our team comprises members from several high-profile projects at Protocol Labs, coming together to build a new, better web3-native hot storage network on top of Filecoin. Our team leverages technologies and insights from building web3.storage and Filecoin Saturn, which many of our leaders were a part of. We aim to establish a "fast data" layer for the Filecoin ecosystem, providing crucial infrastructure for the decentralized web. Our protocols and systems focus on maximizing utility, resilience, and network value for all participants.

We build openly, as part of the larger movements around Filecoin and the broader web3 ecosystem. We do not start from scratch, as our system is production-ready and proven at scale, having served over 200k customers with PBs of data.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a co-founder and business leader who is deeply passionate about decentralized systems, the web3 ecosystem, and building groundbreaking products from the ground up. As a co-founder, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of our company, leading our team, driving business development, and spearheading our fundraising efforts. You will be instrumental in positioning Storacha as a breakthrough in the realm of decentralized hot storage and retrieval.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Development & Growth: Spearhead the business development effort, driving significant customer adoption and gathering valuable feedback. Work closely with the external marketing team to iterate on our product, ensuring market fit and accelerating company growth.
• Fundraising: Lead the fundraising efforts, securing a substantial Series A funding round. Cultivate relationships with venture capitalists, institutional investors, and other key stakeholders. Present the company's vision and progress effectively to attract and secure investment.
• Company Building: Lead and grow our team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. Drive fundraising efforts, present on behalf of the business, and cultivate relationships with investors and stakeholders.
• Launch An L2 Blockchain Network: align strategy across business, legal, marketing, technical domains. Build key partnerships with token exchanges and L1 networks. Manage roadmap and meet key milestones to align launch timing with market conditions.
• Product Development: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute on the product strategy and ensure it aligns with our business goals and market needs.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success in securing substantial Series A funding rounds, with a strong network of venture capital and institutional investors (ideally in web3)
• Proven track record of building businesses and leading technical teams from the ground up.
• Demonstrated success in driving customer adoption and scaling technology products.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for driving innovation and solving complex technical challenges.
• Experience planning, coordinating, and executing effective go-to-market strategies to drive the successful launch and growth of a new product.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience leading in a startup environment or early-stage company.
• Extensive experience in distributed storage technology, blockchain, and decentralized systems.
• Strong understanding of layer 2 blockchain scaling technology and efficient aggregation and caching strategies.
• Deep understanding of IPFS, Filecoin and other related technologies.

Join us in shaping the future of decentralized web3 data storage and aggregation. If you're ready to take on a leadership role in a dynamic startup environment and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

About PLVS:

PL VS supports new businesses (generally separate companies with their own founding teams and investors) that are building on technologies and projects in the Protocol Labs network. PL VS brings together new technologies, high value use cases, exceptional founding teams, market research, product design, customer validation, capital, marketing, and a lot of hard work.

PL VS supports a range of opportunities building on Filecoin’s functionality as a blockchain and decentralized storage network. These include projects in Blockchain Scalability, Cloud Data Storage, Data Availability Networks (DANs), Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and Compute over Data networks (CoD). Each of these projects are enhancing the core performance and capabilities of the Filecoin network, enabling new kinds of applications, and bringing more use cases and users.