CryptoPunks General Manager
About the Role
The CryptoPunks General Manager is responsible for the active stewardship and expansion of the CryptoPunks IP within NODE. As the world's leading digital art collection, your job will be to preserve what makes the CryptoPunks special while expanding awareness of the brand and community. We are looking for someone with high conviction in their own sense of taste and a willingness to develop new collaborations and relationships across industries. A background in technology or digital art is not required, but a willingness to learn is. You must be willing to work directly with the international CryptoPunks community as a key input to ideas, but ultimately the responsibility of growing the brand is yours.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic direction and growth of the CryptoPunks brand
- Develop and execute collaborations and partnerships across industries
- Work directly with the international CryptoPunks community to source ideas and build trust
- Preserve and protect the cultural significance and identity of CryptoPunks
- Expand awareness of CryptoPunks to new audiences beyond the existing community
- Coordinate with NODE leadership on IP strategy, licensing, and brand initiatives
- Represent CryptoPunks at events, conferences, and in public-facing communications
Requirements
- Demonstrated taste and conviction in creative or brand decision-making
- Experience building partnerships or collaborations across industries
- Strong relationship-building skills with diverse communities and stakeholders
- Willingness to learn about digital art, blockchain technology, and onchain culture
- Comfort operating independently with high ownership and accountability
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Passion for community-driven brands and cultural stewardship
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Access to NODE's cultural events, artist programs, and private previews
- Opportunity to shape the future of the most iconic digital art brand
About NODE
NODE is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to transforming how digital art is experienced. NODE is both an idea and a place – built with artists, by artists, and for artists.
NODE is the antidote to sterile galleries and stagnant institutions. NODE is part exhibition space, part learning lab, part cultural engine—designed to give digital art a home that matches its energy and potential. It challenges how we think about art, who gets to create it, and how we engage with it. It celebrates code as culture, and believes the future of art is collaborative, alive, and always evolving.
From Palo Alto to every connected device worldwide, NODE brings together a network of creators who understand that art has the power to bring us closer. We host experiences that evolve and deepen as more people engage. We create spaces – both physical and digital – that invite interaction, experimentation, and dialogue. We partner directly with artists to protect and preserve their code and creative legacy. We collaborate with universities and forward-looking institutions to nurture and inspire the next generation of digital creators. Because it takes a network to make art work.
Our Ten Commandments
- Never midcurve
- Have serious fun
- No one leaves empty-handed
- Bring a beginner's mindset
- Iterate daily
- Make people feel at home
- Everyone has something to offer
- Rules are meant to be broken
- Experience comes from doing
- There's always a place for Punks
Interview Process
- Intro call
- Deep dive
- Reference check