My Core Contributor Role Proposal for ₡ABIN
This week I started my next professional adventure: I’m now a core contributor at ₡ABIN. There’s a few reasons why this role is unique to most kinds of traditional employment:
I didn’t go through a traditional hiring process. The DAO community voted on my role. There was no one person who held the power to hire me.
I started doing the things in my role description before I applied to be a core contributor.
I wrote this role proposal myself and came up with my own job title.
Web3 core contributorships are one of the most sought-after paths into web3, so I’ll be following up with a post on how I landed the role. But for now, here’s the job description I wrote for myself. If you’re looking to write your own DAO contributor role proposal, I hope this helps.
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Contributor Role Proposal: Consigliere (Roxine)
Role length
3 months to start with a measurable scope and short feedback loop.
Role description
Adding a bit of Mafia fun to the DAO! A consigliere is an “advisor” or “counsellor” to the Mafia boss and gets dirty when and where needed.
Similarly, the role I’m proposing is less of a leadership role and more of a support role in the writer’s guild. So far, we have an abundance of ideas that want to be published and several writers and designers working on different projects.
For the next 3 months, I see my role broken down as a coordinator, facilitator, and system plumber:
System plumber to work with Zakk to build systems so he can decrease his hands-on time in the writer’s guild.
For now, this is mostly around observing and documenting the “cow paths” of how our articles get published (ideation, writing process, editing/feedback), then introducing contributors into roles within it (ex. Writers, editors, and designers).
Coordinator to do all the little things that need to get done, apart from writing articles and designing graphics:
Organize our content calendar
Update statuses so we always know all the writing bounties we have ongoing
Get the articles published in Mirror under the writers’ names
Link up writers and designers
Get approval from the guild on ideas
Facilitator so that our contributors can do their best work and just write (and even help contributors who don't think they're "good" writers but have great ideas get their work published, too)
Help contributors flesh out their ideas or decide on which ideas to work with
Provide feedback & edits on the outline and draft stages
Help contributors feel confident about the work they’re publishing (especially if they haven’t written online extensively before)
Core Responsibilities
Main: Write a handbook or manual for the writer's guild that details to help prospective and current contributors get published on our Mirror blog. This includes...
Our writing process (see the preliminary ₡ABIN publishing process)
Our editing or feedback process (see the draft for the Writer's Guild Feedback & Editing Process)
Our content distribution process
What ₡ABIN's blog is about and how we communicate that, like this
Alt: Work with writers and designers to get out our 12 contributor profiles
This project is valuable once we get the facilitation and coordination pieces in place. My thinking is we need to prioritize what we already have going on in the current system, before adding another project
This could also be a good project for new writers looking to hit up bounties (at least until we have a well-documented contribution process – research ongoing)
Organize our content calendar and keep it up to date (Have due dates for outlines, drafts, and publishing for all the articles writers guild contributors are working on)
Facilitate writing projects between writers and designers
Edit writer’s guild articles (at least until we have editors or put editing bounties in place)
Coach and give feedback to writers
A note: I work best as a valued #2, instead of #1. I can see my role transforming in one of 3 ways:
Building a team within the writer’s guild and then helping advise the guild leader (a.k.a. being the guild leader’s #2)
Building systems for the writer’s guild then helping Zakk do the same with the other guilds (a.k.a. being consigliere to the leader of the guilds 😂)
Writer’s guild leader role with the vision of turning the guild into a web3 publication (hesitant because I’m not 100% confident in my skills to get there — I don't have a journalism or media publication background or experience — but I’m not gonna totally discount this!)
Qualifications
I’ve spent the last 4 years helping tech companies, creators, and ecommerce brands establish industry thought leadership with strategic content systems (not a fan of these buzzy terms, but that’s what I did).
I wrote a lot
I’ve had a blog and newsletter online since 2014. My current challenge is to publish 1 blog post every weekday on creativity, the creator economy, and web3.
I wrote or ghostwrote for folks like Thomas Frank (2M+ on YouTube, biggest student success blog online) and Aaron Orendorff (ex-Shopify Plus Editor in Chief, current VP of Marketing at Commonthread Collective)
I did things that didn’t scale in order to build systems that did
Product marketing/content marketing role at a Shopify app startup.
Planned, built, and executed the digital communications strategy for a non-profit religious organization. I built and documented the whole system two months before the pandemic and it has scaled and is still the church’s main form of communication today.
Content marketing role at a B2B enterprise retail startup where I built and executed the entire content production system. Within the span of 9 months, I interviewed sources, researched, wrote, and published 30 articles by myself, in addition to documenting and building out the content systems and distribution (newsletter, socials, and coordinating with designers to create PDFs and reports).
I enjoy working with and developing writers.
I was an alumni mentor in Write of Passage cohort 6 where I helped coach students through the writing process, gave feedback on their articles, and taught weekly writing “seminars”, mostly around building writing systems
Compensation request
I anticipate spending 20% of my time (8 hours per week) and would request to be compensated 100₡ split 50/50 between ₡ and USDC