The pitch#

MoonDAO has raised over 2,600 ETH, sent two people to space on Blue Origin, landed a constitution on the lunar surface, and funded 75+ space R&D projects through open onchain governance. Every dollar and every vote is public and auditable.

Almost nobody knows this.

We have ~38,000 followers on X, and the gap between what we ship and what that account communicates is the single biggest unforced error in the organization. You would own closing it.

This role is X first and X mostly. X is where the space industry, the crypto-native audience, and the researchers and engineers we want to reach actually argue with each other in public, so that is where we are putting the effort.

This is not a role where you invent a brand voice for a company with nothing to talk about. The material is real, most of it is unpublished, and nobody has told the story properly yet.

The starting line#

We publish our numbers because you should know exactly what you are inheriting. @OfficialMoonDAO sits at ~38–39k followers with engagement well below what an account that size and that substance should be getting.

Growth from here is the job. In week one you will audit the account and we will agree on targets together — follower growth, engagement rate, and audience quality, plus inbound interest in Citizenship, project proposals, and the Launchpad.

We also have @official_moondao on Instagram, which is effectively at a standing start. It is a light secondary channel in this role, not a second job — see below.

What you would own#

You own day-to-day execution on X, capped at 10 hours a week. Roughly eight of those hours are X:

• The posting cadence. A consistent rhythm of single posts and threads tied to what MoonDAO is actually shipping that week: proposal and funding cycles, human spaceflight campaigns, the Space Acceleration Network and Team Marketplace, lunar settlement and simulation work, governance votes, and public-goods funding.
• The reply game. On X, distribution comes as much from replies and quote-posts as from your own timeline. You will be present in the conversations that matter — lunar and CLPS/Artemis-adjacent work, commercial human spaceflight, habitats and ISRU, and the serious end of crypto and DAO discourse — representing MoonDAO credibly in other people's threads.
• Format judgement. Knowing when something is a one-liner, when it earns a thread, when it needs a chart or a clip, and when it should not be posted at all. Amplifying results we can point at, not slogans.
• Measurement. A short monthly report from X analytics: what worked, what did not, what changes next.
• Accuracy. $MOONEY is a governance token, our treasury is transparent, our votes are onchain, and our spaceflight and lunar claims are all verifiable. You will represent all of that precisely. No invented milestones, no implied partnerships, no price talk.

Instagram, lightly. The remaining couple of hours go to repurposing the strongest X material for @official_moondao — a carousel or a clip a week, roughly. We are not asking you to build an Instagram content engine, and we will not judge the engagement on X-first work that gets a second life there. If you would rather put all ten hours into X in a given week, say so.

Explicitly not in scope: Discord moderation, newsletter ownership, community management, or running Town Halls. You coordinate lightly with those channels so social stays in sync with reality; you do not run them.

What we give you#

• Unusual raw material. Two flown astronauts in the alumni network, the ongoing Frank White / Overview Effect campaign, an onchain treasury anyone can audit live, a lunar settlement design effort, and 75+ funded projects with real outcomes.
• Direct access. Weekly Town Halls, the governance forum, project leads, and our spaceflight campaigns — you will not be filing tickets to find out what is happening.
• Real autonomy. No committee approval for every post. You will have a clear accuracy bar and a lot of freedom inside it.
• Public credit. Your work is attributable, in a category where very few people can claim they grew the audience of an organization that has actually flown people to space.

What we are looking for#

• Documented growth you personally drove on X. An account you have run, with before/after numbers, engagement data, and specific posts that moved metrics. Screenshots and links. This is the requirement we weight most heavily.
• X-native craft. You understand why some posts travel on this platform and others die: hooks, thread structure, when a quote-post beats a reply, timing, and how the algorithm actually rewards conversation. This is a different skill from general social media management and we are hiring for it specifically.
• Real lunar and commercial space literacy. You should be able to name the current landers, human spaceflight providers, habitat efforts, and the actual technical and policy bottlenecks — and tell signal from noise in that sector.
• Working crypto and DAO fluency. Tokens, onchain governance, transparent treasuries, and the difference between governance utility and speculative narrative. You should be able to explain what MoonDAO is and is not without adding confusion.
• Precision under compression. Translating technical and governance work into something an engineer, a researcher, and a curious newcomer all understand, without hype.
• Async self-direction. There is no marketing team above you assigning work.

Nice to have, not required: an established personal audience in space, crypto or an adjacent technical community; Instagram experience; video editing and motion graphics; design tooling; experience with a nonprofit or public-goods org; prior space-industry work; or a track record growing a technical or decentralized project's audience.

You do not need a large following of your own. We care that you have grown an account and can show the numbers.

What success looks like#

First 30 days — audit @OfficialMoonDAO, deliver an X strategy with agreed targets, and ship a consistent posting cadence that accurately reflects current MoonDAO activity.

First 90 days — measurable follower and reach growth on X, rising engagement from accounts that matter (space professionals, lunar specialists, serious crypto and DAO participants, engineers), and a visible improvement in how clearly our actual progress is communicated. Instagram should be alive and consistent, but X is what we will judge.

We judge results, not hours logged or posts shipped.

Compensation#

$2,000–$3,000 per month for ≤10 hours per week, paid in fiat and/or $MOONEY as you prefer. Where you land in the range depends on the growth you have documented.

We start with a paid one-month trial at a pro-rated rate for a defined slice of real work, so we are both deciding on actual output rather than promises. There is also room to structure part of the monthly rate as a performance component against targets we agree in week one, if you would rather have upside than a flat retainer.

This is a part-time contractor engagement, not full-time employment and not an equity-heavy role. Final compensation is confirmed in MoonDAO's next Executive Branch budgeting cycle following the interview period, and the range above is what we are budgeting against.

The engagement is reviewed on results. Strong performance is the path to a larger scope and a higher rate; we would rather raise a great contributor than quietly extend an underperforming one.

How to apply#

Send a package with:

1. The X account(s) you have run, with specific growth and engagement metrics. Other platforms are welcome as supporting evidence, but we want to see X.
2. Your personal X handle. Size is not a filter — we want to see how you write when it is your own name on it.
3. 2–3 posts or threads you produced that drove results, with the numbers.
4. A short note (max 300 words) on why you are the right person to communicate MoonDAO's work in a lunar and commercial space context, and what you would prioritize on X in your first 30 days.

Optional, and it will get our attention: one thread you would actually post for MoonDAO in week one, drafted from our public activity.

We read for evidence. A package with hard numbers and specific work beats a polished narrative without them, every time.

Hiring process and timeline#

We will tell you where you stand at each stage. You will not be left guessing.

About MoonDAO#

MoonDAO is the Internet's Space Program. Our mission is to accelerate the creation of a self-sustaining, self-governing settlement on the Moon by 2030 that serves as a launch point for humanity to explore the cosmos.

We are nation-agnostic, radically transparent, bottom-up, and governed onchain by $MOONEY holders. We do not treat space as the exclusive domain of governments or billionaires. We treat it as everyone's Moon.

Worth reading before you apply:

• Treasury and governance — every dollar, publicly auditable
• Projects we have funded
• The Space Acceleration Network
• Launchpad