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Why this role matters House of Stake (HoS) is the NEAR Foundation’s flagship experiment in transparent, data-driven, and eventually AI-augmented, on-chain governance. Your mandate is simple but ambitious: design, operate, and continuously improve the governance system that keeps HoS—and by extension the NEAR ecosystem—credible, resilient, and ahead of the curve. You will be both strategist and operator:

Strategist: synthesize governance research, shape policy, and set the long-term roadmap. Operator: run the day-to-day—shipping code with vendors, facilitating delegate votes, and communicating decisions to a global audience.

If you thrive at the intersection of mechanism design, community building, and product execution, you’ll find few playgrounds as wide-open as this one. What you’ll own

Area

What success looks like

Governance architecture

A living framework—backed by clear specs, metrics, and docs—that delegates and token-holders trust and use.

Program & vendor management

FastNear, Gauntlet, Agora, and future partners ship on time, on-budget, and against well-defined KPIs.

Product delivery

Frontend, backend, and smart-contract upgrades roll out smoothly, with zero governance downtime.

Community stewardship

Delegates feel heard, newcomers can onboard themselves, and public discourse stays civil, fact-based, and transparent.

Thought leadership

HoS is cited as a reference model at conferences, on panels, and in research papers; you’re the go-to voice.

AI-governance transition

A realistic, phased plan to integrate AI agents into proposal drafting, signal aggregation, and dispute resolution.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Craft and iterate the HoS governance constitution, operating manuals, and upgrade procedures. Run regular (weekly to biweekly) syncs with Gauntlet & Agora; translate research output into shipped code. Maintain a lightweight but rigorous delivery pipeline (issues, sprints, retros). Publish governance analytics dashboards and monthly “state-of-governance” reports. Represent HoS at major events; host Twitter/X Spaces, podcasts, and AMAs. Curate a living library of cross-chain governance case studies and best practices. We value

ECOSYSTEM-FIRST: always put the health and success of the ecosystem above any individual's interest OPENNESS: operate transparently and consistently share knowledge to build open communities PRAGMATISM OVER PERFECTION: find the right solution not the ideal solution and beat dogmatism by openly considering all ideas MAKE IT FEEL SIMPLE: strive to make the complex feel simple so the technology is accessible to all GROW CONSTANTLY: learn, improve and fail productively so the project and community are always becoming more effective

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