Chief Executive Officer, The Dollar Foundation (Seattle)

About The Dollar Foundation

The Dollar Foundation is the non‑profit steward of the Bitcoin Dollar — a DeFi yield platform built on BTCD, a collateralized token holding 50/50 BTC/USD exposure. BTCD itself isn’t the product; it’s the foundation. Staking BTCD mints sBTCD, a yield‑bearing token that captures returns from the full underlying portfolio — productive BTC (ybBTC), productive dollars (sUSDS, sUSDe, etc.), and the portfolio’s volatility‑monetization engine. Using sBTCD as collateral, the platform builds isolated, structured products on top:

• USD Vault — borrows BTC against sBTCD for 12–19% APY in dollar terms, with zero BTC price risk to the depositor.


• BTC Vault — borrows USD against sBTCD for 6–14% APY denominated in BTC, preserving full Bitcoin exposure.

Depositors simply choose USDC or wBTC; the vaults handle leverage, rebalancing, and risk.

Role Overview

We are hiring a founding CEO to own capital formation, TVL growth, and the FISC token economy. This is not a foundation steward role and not a TradFi executive seat. It is a hands‑on, commercial, crypto‑native operating role for someone who has personally scaled a DeFi protocol, knows tokenomics as a craft, has credibility with curators, funds and risk firms and can champion a vision for the ecosystem online and onstage.

Key Responsibilities

• Own TVL growth across token demand, staking, and vault deposits — and set, track, and report the growth and financial metrics that govern it.


• Lead capital formation end‑to‑end — raise the Series A from crypto‑native investors and secure the seed liquidity and incentive capital needed to bootstrap and retain TVL.


• Own the FISC token economy and capital‑markets strategy — tokenomics, emissions, points and incentive programs, liquidity mining, and bribe‑market deployment.


• Convert and deepen the curator and risk pipeline — turn warm relationships into live, endorsed integrations. Curator trust is the protocol’s #1 conversion unlock.


• Build the capital stack beyond the raise — crypto hedge funds, LPs, and ecosystem partners now; institutional and TradFi allocators as the platform matures.


• Be the public face of Bitcoin Dollar and FISC — conferences, podcasts, Twitter Spaces, and forums — carrying a credible, transparent narrative.


• Drive the trust‑infrastructure agenda — real‑time Proof of Reserves, DeFiLlama and aggregator listings, public risk assessments, and curator endorsements — and forge integrations (Pendle, Morpho, Aave, cross‑chain) that extend sBTCD composability and distribution.


• Lead a small, senior team — hire selectively, set the operating cadence, manage runway and burn, and steward the long‑term roadmap toward the multi‑asset Dollar family, FISC seasons, and DAO governance.

Qualifications

• Personally drove measurable TVL or AUM growth at a DeFi protocol with specific, defensible numbers.


• Deep crypto‑capital‑markets fluency — tokenomics and incentive design, lending markets, vaults, leverage, PT/YT and bribe markets, liquidity provisioning, and on‑chain analytics.


• Credible, existing curator and risk‑firm relationships, with a proven ability to convert skeptics into live integrations.


• Demonstrated fundraising — you’ve raised from crypto VCs and/or allocated as an investor, and can run a Series A.


• A strong public presence — comfortable as the named face of a protocol on stage, on podcasts, and on X — able to explain novel yield and rebalancing mechanics to a sophisticated, skeptical audience.


• A player‑coach who thrives hands‑on in a sub‑20‑person senior team and builds the playbook rather than managing a large org.


• High integrity and conviction, genuine comfort with token‑weighted comp and early‑stage ambiguity, and sound regulatory awareness as the public executive of a Cayman non‑profit foundation and token issuer.

Nice to Have

• Direct working relationships with curators like Re7, Block Analitica, Gauntlet, Steakhouse, or Veda.


• Prior founder or CEO experience at a DeFi protocol.


• Stablecoin, yield, or RWA protocol depth.


• Network into Pendle, Morpho, Aave, or Sky ecosystems.