Sprout Labs

Backend Engineer

• Architect and implement core backend services and APIs that power the Story protocol
• Lead technical design discussions and make key architectural and implementation decisions
• Write and review high-quality, production-grade Go (Golang) code
• Collaborate with protocol engineers and product teams to define service interfaces and data flows
• Build for scalability, reliability, and security across distributed systems
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to other engineers while remaining a strong individual contributor
• Contribute to the evolution of Story’s technical roadmap and engineering best practices

Principal Platform Architect

Producer

• Drive the end-to-end production process for design projects, from marketing campaigns to brand assets to landing pages.
• Act as the primary point of contact between design and marketing, ensuring briefs, timelines, and deliverables are clear.
• Prioritize and schedule design work based on capacity, urgency, and company goals.
• Manage resources, including contractors, ensuring new contributors are onboarded and aligned quickly.
• Maintain project documentation (Gantt charts, trackers, status updates) so everyone stays informed.
• Proactively identify bottlenecks and propose solutions before they become blockers.
• Ensure the creative team has the information, assets, and clarity they need to do their best work.
• Help refine and implement processes that scale as the team grows.

Creative Producer

Communications

• Localize Global Communications Strategy: Translate global announcements into culturally relevant Korean campaigns, narratives, and press releases.
• Media Relations & Coverage: Cultivate and leverage existing relationships with top-tier Korean tech, business, and entertainment media. Secure interviews, op-eds, and consistent Story coverage.
• Narrative Development for Korean Market: Tailor the global Story Protocol narrative to reflect Korea's cultural and technological landscape, especially across gaming, IP, AI, and entertainment.
• Lead PR Agency Execution: Manage our local PR agency and ensure high-impact execution on strategy, KPIs, and storytelling.
• Executive Positioning & Thought Leadership: Support the strategic positioning of Story’s C-suite and leadership team in Korea, including media visibility, speaker profiles, and byline opportunities.
• Ecosystem Communications: Partner with Korean builders, creators, and ecosystem partners to surface local stories and campaigns.
• Proactive Comms Strategy: Go beyond execution. Proactively identify opportunities to elevate Story’s brand, ecosystem, and leadership via earned media, thought leadership, cultural trends, or market moments. We’re looking for a self-starter who brings comms ideas to the table.
• Support Regulatory & Government Positioning: Contribute to Story’s positioning in Korea’s innovation policy and public discourse, in coordination with government affairs consultants if needed.
• Event Support: Help with communications and media strategy for major events (e.g. Korea Blockchain Week), Story-hosted events, or community activations. Identify and secure relevant local events and speaking opportunities for Story and its leadership.
• Crisis Comms & Reputation Management: Monitor local sentiment, flag issues early, and support real-time response efforts in the event of market or media escalations.
• Internal Coordination: Act as the local “hub” for communications collaborating closely with global Marketing, Ecosystem, and Business Development teams.
• Measurement & Reporting: Track local media KPIs, sentiment shifts, and ecosystem visibility; report insights back to the global team.

Senior Communications Lead, Korea

Infrastructure Engineer

• Architect, design, implement, and maintain infrastructure frameworks for blockchain networks and backend services.
• Collaborate with QA and development teams to identify and fix bugs, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities.
• Design, develop, and document tools and pipelines to support testing, debugging, reporting, and monitoring of blockchain applications, networks, APIs, etc.
• Monitor the infrastructure, providing timely responses and escalating issues as needed.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline the development and deployment process.
• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with industry standards.

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Blockchain Engineer

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for core Layer 1, proof-of-concept protocols, and developer-facing APIs/SDKs.
• Work closely with executive team, researchers, engineers, and the global ecosystem to ship cryptographic primitives and infra.
• Ship cryptographic and protocol features and releases (e.g., DKG, ZK integrations, rollup, scaling solutions).
• Improve security, upgradeability, performance, and decentralization of the core infrastructure.
• Lead internal and external cross-functional communication with researchers, engineers, ecosystem partners, and open-source communities.
• Align Story with external roadmaps (Ethereum, Cosmos, Rollup, DA/storage trends).
• Ensure Story remains secure, performant, and aligned with broader blockchain trends.

Principal Platform Architect

Creative Producer

Senior Communications Lead, Korea

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Product Manager, Blockchain and Protocol