Title: Governance Solution Engineer Program - Re-Implementation Author(s): Icedcool🏴#4947 Date Forum Posted: February 25th, 2022 Date Snapshot Posted: March 14th, 2022

Reference documents:

Quorum Removal Snapshot: Link Invalid GSE Spec Snapshot: Link Invalid GSE Election Snapshot: Link GSE Specifications: Link GSE Submissions: Link

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Governance Solutions Engineer TLDR:

GSE Definitions:

Governance-minded DAO members elected to spec out a comprehensive solution to mission-critical DAO infrastructure challenges.

Specification:

• 5 GSE Electees
  • 75K per electee
  • Additional 750K bank for potential bonus to be paid at the end of the season.
  • Potential Total per GSE: 225K BANK
  • Potential Total for GSEs Overall: 1.125M BANK
• Two Operational pools of 500k BANK for additional contributors in each problem space to be involved, and distributed per the groups decision (potentially coordinape).
  • 1M Bank in total.
• TOTAL BANK OVERALL: 2,125,000 BANK

Focus:

• Contributor Alignment
  • Refine membership (Guest pass, L1, and L2)
    • Including potential ways to offboard contributors that no longer meet activity thresholds)
  • Create compensation frameworks that can be updated
    • Define global compensation standards that support contributors for the entire DAO.
    • Provide guidance on guild/project local compensation.
  • Refine and develop new incentive models that reward long-term contributors that stick with the DAO for long periods of time.
  • Work with guilds to standardize guild roles and Coordinape rounds
  • Work with guild Talent Scouts and First Quest to identify challenges and better retain talent entering the DAO.
• Strategic Prioritization
  • Model and present various strategic directions for the DAO.
  • Develop a potential business plan based on identified strategic model
  • Create an evaluation framework based on identified strategy to help the DAO make strategic decisions with treasury and grant funding.
  • Create evaluation PROCESS that optimizes community consensus and responsible decision making to act on above framework.
  • Design a system that actually measures the output of funding projects and incorporates those findings into the eval process.
  • Balance funding cost centers with projects that generate revenue or token value appreciation.

Requirements:

• GSEs need to make this their #1 Priority.
  • May have other positions but must disclose them.
  • Lower order activities and involvement are fine (newsletter work, etc).

Process:

• The 5 electees can organize any way they see fit, as long as it is transparent, open and public.
  • GSEs are to work with the DAO to find the optimal solution by progressively designing solutions, presenting them to the DAO, capturing feedback, and iterating.

Deliverables:

• Detailed specification to implement mid season 4 or at the start of season 5
  • Ex Season 1 spec
  • Community consent and feedback must already be included.

Financial Process:

• Each Gov SE is guaranteed a 75,000 BANK salary.
• At the end of the Season, the DAO will vote on two deliverables produced by the GSEs via forum vote. One for strategic prioritization and one for contributor Alignment. Each deliverable will be rated on a scale of 1 to 5, which will unlock additional compensation.
  • Each deliverable will unlock a maximum of 375K BANK, for a total of 750K.
  • Each rating will unlock 75K in funding. 1 = 75K, 2 = 150K, 3 = 225K, 4 = 300K, 5 = 375K
  • Additional compensation is only for GSEs. Distribution will be up to the 5 GSEs. They can choose to use Team Set Salaries or Coordinape.
• The two working groups (Contributor alignment and Strategic Prioritization) will have an allocated budget of 500,000 BANK EACH to collectively decide how to allocate and compensate members of the working group. Gov SEs may not draw from this allocation.
• Funds will be held in a multi-sig held by the 5 GSEs
  • Once all compensation has been distributed, GSEs must produce a financial report outlining how funds were distributed.
  • Any funds not distributed will be returned to the treasury