We are looking for senior, top of ecosystem engineers to augment and/or lead our growing protocol team. 

Required experience:

• Software development, 8+ years
• Blockchain or similar distributed systems design/development, 5+ years
• Cosmos SDK development, 3+ years
• Golang, 3+ years
• IBC protocol/app design

Recommended experience:

• Rust, 3+ years
• Typescript, 3+ years
• Hyperlane warp routes

Day to day work and responsibilities:

• Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
• Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
• Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
• Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
• Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
• Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform

Why work at Burnt Labs / XION:

• Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
• Direct product ownership and impact
• Autonomy and independence
• Competitive compensation

Salary: Highly competitive - base + tokens

Overview

This is an opportunity to be the linchpin that ensures amazing creative concepts, revolutionary and effective marketing campaigns, social media content, video production, event planning and production, and PR opportunities all align.  To own the end-to-end marketing project management for a high-growth tech company that values creativity, originality and exceptional execution above all else. You'll work alongside an experienced and award-winning blockchain CMO and former CD of an international marketing group.

Reports To:

Head of Marketing

The Challenge

The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating and optimizing workflows within the marketing department to ensure seamless project execution. This role involves managing inputs and outputs, enforcing robust briefing processes, keeping projects on track, proactively identifying risks or blockers, and securing timely approvals and updates. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have the opportunity to leverage their content creation expertise and knowledge of blockchain and cryptocurrency to draft initial creative solutions, such as social media posts, to support the marketing team’s campaigns.

• Workflow Coordination: Streamline and manage all marketing project workflows, ensuring efficient coordination of inputs (e.g., creative briefs, assets, etc) and outputs (e.g., campaigns, content).
• Briefing Process Management: Enforce comprehensive briefing processes, ensuring all required information (e.g., objectives, target audience, timelines etc) is provided upfront to avoid delays or miscommunication.
• Project Tracking & Milestones: Monitor project progress, ensure milestones are met, and maintain clear documentation using project management tools (e.g., Asana, Jira, Trello, Monday.com etc).
• Risk Management: Act as an early warning system by identifying potential delays, blockers, or resource constraints, and propose solutions to keep projects on track.
• Approvals & Updates: Chase stakeholders for timely approvals, feedback, and updates to maintain project momentum.
• Creative Contribution: Leverage experience in content creation and knowledge of blockchain and cryptocurrency to draft initial creative solutions, such as social media posts, campaign concepts, or content ideas, to supplement the marketing team’s efforts as required.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with designers, copywriters,  marketing and PR agencies,  developers, technical team, strategy teams and operations and other partners to align on project goals and deliverables.
• Reporting: Provide regular updates to the C-Suite on project status, risks, and outcomes, using data-driven insights to optimize future workflows.

Is this you?

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Creative Writing, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
• 5+ years of project management experience, preferably in a marketing or tech environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, with a strong focus on organization and attention to detail.
• Understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystems, including key trends, terminology, and audience behaviors.
• Experience drafting creative marketing content, such as social media posts or campaign concepts, particularly in the blockchain/crypto space.
• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Asana, Trello, Jira, Monday.com).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to coordinate with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to anticipate risks, problem-solve proactively, work under tight deadlines, and a knack for anticipating challenges..
• Familiarity with marketing KPIs, OKRs and other campaign performance metrics.

• Hands-on experience working in a scaleup, marketing, tech blockchain or crypto-focused company.
• Collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Creative thinker with a passion for blockchain and crypto innovation.
• Basic knowledge of graphic design or content creation tools (e.g., Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma) to support creative workflows.
• Understanding of social media platforms and their role in crypto marketing (e.g., Twitter/X, Discord, Telegram, IG, TikTok, Kaito, CookieDAO).

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a cutting-edge tech company shaping the future of blockchain and cryptocurrency.
• Work in a dynamic, creative, and collaborative marketing team.
• Competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, and unlimited PTO and opportunities for growth.
• Flexible work environment with hybrid/remote options.
• Be a core member and key player in a young $36M-funded tech scale-up with massive growth potential.

Salary:

Highly competitive - base + tokens

Overview:

This is an opportunity to own and shape the end-to-end design and brand vision for a high-growth tech company that values creativity and originality above all else. A key challenge is how design thinking can bridge the gap between Web3 and Web2 conventions in a bold and dynamic way - to onboard new audiences yet retain the scale up and disruptive DNA of the blockchain industry. You'll work alongside an experienced and award-winning blockchain CMO and former CD of an international marketing group.

The Challenge:

We’re seeking a visionary Head of Design to lead our creative, brand and design output, to redefine our brand’s global presence across social, video, events and viral channels. 

• Define and evolve our brand’s visual identity, ensuring consistency and innovation across digital, marketing, and product platforms.
• Lead the creation and implementation of design systems to streamline workflows and maintain brand coherence.
• Be proficient across a suite of design, web, animation and video tools e.g. CS, AE, Blender, Houidini, Figma, Wordpress / Webflow, Final Cut etc.
• Harness AI tools like MidJourney and Veo3 to push creative boundaries and accelerate design processes.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, and engineering teams to deliver compelling, user-centric experiences.
• Manage internal and freelance designers, and external agencies, fostering a culture of creativity and accountability.
• Drive high-impact campaigns that blend storytelling with executional excellence.

Is this you?

• A Head of Design or Lead Designer with a proven track record in creativity and execution at a senior level.
• 5-7 years min experience - agency or in-house.
• Expertise across branding, events, social media, advertising, viral, video, motion graphics.
• Enjoys creating design systems that are scalable and consistent.
• Proficient with a suite of design, web, animation and video tools including AI design tools (e.g., Midjourney, Veo3).
• Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and managing external partners.
• Skilled at translating complex ideas into visually compelling narratives.
• Thrives in tech, Web3 or high-growth startup environments.

Why Join Us?

• Shape a brand from the ground up in a dynamic, innovative environment.
• Work with a team passionate about pushing creative boundaries.
• Competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, and unlimited PTO.
• Be a core member and key player in a young $36M-funded tech scale-up with massive growth potential.

Problem: The number of Web3 developers is decreasing, and to this day there are no mainstream products in the industry

Solution: Onboard Web2 developers to build on XION, through a hyper-localized growth strategy

TLDR: We're looking for a unicorn that gets excited at tackling the biggest problem facing the industry today - attracting Web2 builders. XION now makes it possible, and it's your job to massively scale the pipeline.

Role Overview

We are seeking an Ecosystem Growth unicorn to spearhead our hyper-localized strategy—building, educating, and engaging communities of developers who are new to Web3. You will develop and execute growth initiatives, cultivate relationships with local communities, and champion XION’s mission to transform the developer landscape in crypto. You will be in the inbound funnel for projects entering the XION ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Growth Planning
• Design and implement hyperlocalized growth campaigns to convert traditional developers into the XION Web3 ecosystem.
• Identify target regions, devise community engagement strategies, and prioritize markets based on strategic impact.
2. Community Building & Engagement
• Organize hackathons, workshops, and meetups in collaboration with local developer communities.
• Manage XION’s developer community channels (Discord, GitHub, forums) to foster collaboration and support.
• Cultivate local partnerships with tech hubs, universities, and influencers to bolster adoption.
3. Cross-functional Collaboration
• Work closely with product, marketing, and developer relations teams to align growth initiatives with platform updates and launches.
• Collaborate with external partners—exchanges, ecosystem projects, and community leaders—to expand XION’s reach and influence.
4. Data-Driven Analysis
• Track, analyze, and report on KPIs (e.g., developer conversions, retention rates, community engagement).
• Use insights to refine growth strategies and optimize future campaigns.
5. Advocacy & Thought Leadership
• Represent XION at conferences, speaking engagements, and panels, championing the benefits of Web3 development.

Requirements

• Multiple years of growth experience
• Proven success leading content-driven product teams in high-growth environments.
• Understanding of crypto or the ability to quickly adapt to the industry.
• Visionary approach to growth, thinking beyond traditional crypto audiences.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and strategic thinking skills.

Competencies

• Extremely ambitious — is looking to take high leverage in their career.
• Data driven — a history of consistently leveraging data to achieve outlier growth
• Action oriented — consistent execution and a bias for action is essential.
• Long term oriented — all decisions should stay rooted in line with our multi-year goals.
• Resourceful — consistently manifests outsized returns for the resources available. 

Benefits

Our benefits include competitive compensation, token packages for all employees, and unlimited PTO. In addition, you'll join a team of high-caliber people innovating at the frontier of crypto that work collaboratively to help one another accelerate their personal growth.

We are looking for an APAC Developer Relations specialist (must speak Chinese and English fluently) to help builders deploy on XION with minimal friction. This role involves being the primary point of contact for developers, providing hands-on support while continuously improving documentation, examples, and tooling in collaboration with the engineering team. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, with expertise in at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Rust, and experience in DevRel or open-source contributions. You should be highly organized, proactive in addressing developer needs, and passionate about blockchain technology’s potential for mass adoption.

Responsibilities

• Top priority: help builders deploy on XION as seamlessly as possible, and continuously improve the developer experience
• Be the lead point of contact for builders deploying on XION, providing proactive support to builders across direct Telegram chats, Discord channels, forums, and community chats.
• Address developer pain points by improving documentation, examples, SDKs, and APIs in collaboration with engineering.
• Gather and prioritize developer feedback for product and engineering team enhancements.
• Advocate internally for the developer community’s needs and concerns.
• Build and maintain relationships with developers to foster a supportive community.
• Stay updated on blockchain and software application trends, tools, and best practices.

Requirements

• Strong, proactive communication skills. Builders always come first. Never let over 15 hours pass on a support request without acknowledgement that the message was received.
• Organization: you will be juggling many different requests, across many different teams, across many different channels. It is important to stay organized so that builders receive the highest level of support. In addition, repeated requests will need to be logged, surfaced and addressed in documentation & improved developer tools to streamline future support.
• Strong background in Computer Science through education or self-learning.
• Minimum 3 years in developer relations or technical evangelism for consumer APIs, applications, blockchain projects.
• Advanced understanding of one of: Typescript, Go, Rust
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a diverse audience.
• Experience in managing open-source projects and maintaining high-quality documentation.
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills, passionate about supporting developers.
• Proactive and empathetic problem-solving approach, committed to continuous improvement.

Desirable Knowledge

• Advanced understanding of Typescript, Go, Rust, Cosmwasm, Move, Solidity
• Advanced understanding of blockchain technology or distributed systems.
• Experience in developing blockchain applications or working with smart contracts.
• Familiarity with the Cosmos SDK/Cosmwasm and active participation in the community.
• Contributions and activity in open-source projects, especially blockchain projects.
• Interest in blockchain technologies and their integration into consumer applications.
• Passionate belief in the transformative power of decentralization and blockchain technology.

Xion has a community of over 1M followers across all socials. We are looking for a cult leader to better engage and grow our community.

Overall, success for this cult leader role would mean that they have not only grown the community in numbers but also deepened the members’ engagement and attachment to Xion, fostering a fervent and loyal follower base that actively participates in and evangelizes the community’s objectives and values.

Members should not only be devoted to us, but viciously attack those deemed as threats.

What you have:

• Arguably the most important part of any cult leader is a thriving personality. No-one is going to be drinking poisoned Kool-Aid for someone with the charisma of a brick
• Track record in growing existing crypto communities. This can include infrastructure projects to NFT projects. Added plus if you already have a following
• Deep understanding of the crypto ecosystem, including emerging trends and major narratives / personalities

What you will be doing:

• Utilize symbols, logos, and exclusive language to create an inner circle of members who feel deeply connected to the cult’s ethos.
• Encourage an evangelical approach to spreading Xion’s message, empowering members to recruit and convert new followers via our ambassador program
• Cultivate devotion by promoting stories of community members whose lives have been profoundly impacted by the XION community
• Working with team of community managers to monitor and subtly control dissent within the community, ensuring that the cult’s narrative remains strong and unchallenged
• Regularly disseminate visionary content, including prophetic insights or exclusive revelations that keep the community tuned in for every word.
• Indoctrinate new members through welcome rituals and exclusive content, deepening their commitment and understanding of the community’s goals.

Some might die, and that is okay.

We seek individuals driven by passion, resilience, and strong ethical principles.

If your background doesn't align perfectly with our listed requirements, this application is for you.

We value unique experiences and diverse career paths – your distinctive skills and enthusiasm could be exactly what sets you apart from other candidates. If you've taken an unconventional route in your professional journey, we're excited to hear your story. 

ABOUT XION

XION’s L1 abstracts away all crypto complexities for users to enable mass adoption.

XION enshrines opinionated UX decisions at the protocol level, including abstracted meta accounts, signature flexibility, and a parameterized fee system, to improve interoperability and user accessibility in blockchain networks.

Raised over $36M from Animoca, Circle Ventures, Multicoin, Valor, Hashkey, Spartan, Mechanism, Figment Capital, Coinlist Seed, Injective, Alliance DAO, Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), and more.

We are looking for a high-functioning psychopath to help bring the next wave of hybrid web2/3 applications.

You will be joining a team of top-tier self-selected sado-masochists, who work here because they can’t really work anywhere else. We value rapid communication and direct feedback, both internal and external. Breakneck pace shipping, autonomy and ownership, and constant experimentation are table stakes. Apologies in advance.

What Sparks Your Enthusiasm

• Shipping nonsense to billions of users
• That point of a futile debugging session where you start to question your sanity and everything becomes hilarious
• Finding interesting/troubling ways to solve engineering problems
• “Huh, that’s weird”, gives you a sense of giddy panic
• A constant feeling like your spinal column has been struck by lightning

What Turns You Away

• “It works on my machine”
• “The user should be able to figure it out”
• “That isn’t my problem”
• Feeling generally calm and in control of the situation

Requirements:

• Typescript
• React
• Self-destructive tendencies
• CSS Frameworks (Tailwind, MUI, etc.)
• Medically significant but non-terminal caffeine addiction
• Experience with Git/Github in a distributed team
• Experience integrating with REST/GraphQL/GRPC APIs
• Security Minded
• Comfort in a young, chaotic, rapidly evolving small team startup environment
• Ability to pick up and learn new stacks and tools on zero notice

Nice to haves:

• Cosm.js or Web3.js experience, general experience developing with crypto focused javascript libraries.
• Experience with NPM release best practices
• Experience working with and configuring bundlers (Webpack, Vite, etc.)
• Experience with browser and mobile data storage, ie LocalStorage, SQLite
• Performance conscious development, as the majority of the global user base is on mobile phones
• Integration and unit testing experience

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Actual: 

• Desperate banging on keyboard
• Ripping hair out over encoding errors
• Not learning from previous mistakes about encoding errors
• Ripping hair out over encoding errors

Formal:

• Design Implementation: Work closely with the design team to bring concepts to life, using provided designs as a foundation while exercising autonomy in execution.
• Feature Development: Take ownership of features from planning to release, including scoping, task management, and prioritization.
• Documentation Analysis: Research and review available documentation to guide development, navigating and interpreting scarce or ambiguous resources.
• Testing and Debugging: Conduct thorough testing and extensive debugging to ensure high-quality deliverables, iterating through multiple cycles as needed.
• Collaboration: Engage with the protocol team to facilitate smooth integration of features, providing technical guidance and feedback.
• Continuous Improvement: Participate in the release process, ensuring stability and performance, and contribute to ongoing improvements and refinements.

Cultural:

• Take on new features or bug fixes, with full ownership
• Scoff at the lack of documentation in our field
• “Reverse engineer” protocol level … stuff… to integrate into client
• Debug, debug, debug
• Release and iterate