The Bay Area is the global center of gravity for AI, venture capital, and the builders defining the next decade of technology. Solana Foundation is making it a strategic priority — and we are looking for a senior leader to own it, end to end.
As GM, AI Ecosystem, you will be the Foundation’s most senior presence in Silicon Valley and the single point of accountability for Solana’s growth in the region. This is not a community or events role with a bigger title. You will set regional strategy, control a dedicated budget, make funding decisions that seed new teams and initiatives, and personally carry the relationships that determine whether the most ambitious companies of this cycle build on Solana — or somewhere else.
Your defining mandate is to bridge Solana and the AI & emerging tech worlds**.** The convergence of AI and crypto — agents that transact, decentralized compute, verifiable inference, machine-to-machine payments — is one of the most consequential frontiers in technology, and it is being built here. You will be the person who convinces the people building it that Solana is the chain to build it on, and who turns that conviction into shipped products.
This is a high-autonomy, high-visibility, capital-backed leadership role. Physical presence in the Bay Area is a hard requirement.