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Head of Content

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Who is Risk Labs?

Risk Labs is the foundation and core team whose mandate is to build and grow the UMA and Across protocol ecosystems.

What is UMA?

UMA’s optimistic oracle (OO) can record any verifiable truth or data onto a blockchain. UMA Purpose: UMA is the canonical source of truth that blockchains use to verify real world data. UMA Vision: UMA enables any verifiable truth to be recorded on-chain, trustlessly.

What is Across?

Across is a cross-chain bridge for L2s and rollups secured by UMA’s OO.Across’ purpose: Across is to fulfill crypto’s potential by making blockchains more usable, more accessible and more efficient.

Across’s Vision: Intents are the standard in x-chain interoperability, and are settled by Across.

The role

As our Content Lead, you will lead our content strategy and ensure consistency and quality across many different channels. You’re a strong storyteller from white papers to blog posts, who can synthesize many inputs to craft a thoughtful narrative. You thrive in an unstructured environments but use your organizational skills to align stakeholders and processes to ultimately control the narratives.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Guide the creation of clear, consistent, and compelling content across all communication channels, including our website, blog, social media, and metaverses, optimizing strategies we expand our product lines
  • Create and own the editorial calendar
  • Generate content including tweets, blog posts, and other content for our protocols
  • Work with the team to obtain an in-depth understanding of the product and customer to enable you to write content that engages, informs, and converts
  • Define & track content KPIs to refine the execution of content strategy and demonstrate data-driven strategies
  • Manage creative and copywriters to help execute your content strategy

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience and a demonstrated track record of success in content strategy and creation
  • Excellent editorial judgment and a thorough grasp of how to edit across a variety of topics: Voice & tone guidelines, brand guidelines, and audiences
  • Have a writer’s mindset, eye for detail, and ability to provide objective feedback
  • Manage multiple work streams, from concept to completion, by anticipating challenges, setting up success measures, and reporting
  • Avid cryptocurrency enthusiast is a must! It’s okay if you haven’t worked in crypto before, but knowledge about the field is essential
  • You are extremely organized, detail-oriented, and catch all typos or grammatical errors

Compensation and Benefits

  • Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options
  • Salaries for this role range from $120-160k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem
  • Will pay in stablecoins or fiat
  • Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)
  • 100% remote and international, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in
  • At least two team wide offsites a year

Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Risk Labs, the employing entity, is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplaces. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t perfectly align- we encourage you to apply anyways. We value you taking the chance. Risk labs will not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our values:

  1. We value each individual’s right to economic freedom.
  2. We value openness, honesty, and directness.
  3. We value integrity.
  4. We value iterative learning.
  5. We value taking smart risks.
  6. We value creating an environment where everyone “does their best work”.

Why do we love working at Risk Labs?

We are a group that’s aligned with the ethos of the crypto industry and doing our best to make an impact for the industry and world at large. You’ll succeed with Risk Labs if you’re a self-starter, kind, adaptable, and passionate about making an impact. Risk Labs is a values driven team that strives to create an environment where we can do our best work, and succeed. We’re building products that we believe in, and continuing to strive for innovation and growth. Both personally and professionally we support each other to create a happy, healthy, and inspired team vibe, so we can remain motivated to build things the world needs and loves. We take pride in the fact that we are at once family-friendly as well as nomad-friendly.

UMA’s optimistic oracle is a decentralized truth machine for Web3- yes, that’s a bold and very exciting statement. We’ve built a solid foundation, in terms of the team, the technology, and the products, and the road map ahead is one full of exciting technical challenges, growth, and telling our story to the world. Across is forging the path for intents-based solutions and settlements, creating an interoperable world where DeFi is seamless. We’ve grown from an early bridge, to a market leader, and won’t stop innovating and building. We have big dreams, and a team excited to bring them to life.

Still want to know more?

  • Our team blends a mix of highly-sought engineers, and a diverse business team to showcase their high quality tech. Our international and fast-growing team includes a diverse background of experiences and has drawn world class talent. We have a great network of supportive investors from groups like: Placeholder, Blockchain Capital, Bain Capital, Coinbase, Dragonfly… to name a few.
  • Teammates take the time off that they need and support each other to be their best selves- we care about your wellness.
  • You will not get bored with Risk Labs. We are constantly developing, building, experimenting and evolving. Yes we try to allow people to focus on their specific product areas, but things are always shifting and evolving. There’s no right answer and we’re all just doing our best!