Chief Executive Officer, The Dollar Foundation

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.

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.
• 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