Snapshot: OAT Election
We are voting for: Frisson, AJ Warner and 0xRecruiter.
Before explaining our rationale for each candidate we’ll list our key identifiers for valuable OAT members. These are consistent with OAT Key Responsibilities as well as the role description
Identifiers: candidates who have proven experience in running, leading, hiring and scaling teams, strategic know how and operational experience, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, experience in coordinating cross functional teams, have Arbitrum specific context coordinating and building relationships in Arbitrum specific initiatives.
For additional clarity on our perspective: we don’t find that the candidates need necessarily to be connected to the AF to qualify, neither than candidates should not be part of AF or DAO programs to be exempt of conflicts of interest as understood by Paulo, the criteria was the above principles. Given this, our selected candidates ended up having (current or previous) connections in either DAO programs or OCL.
Below we list each selected member and some standout points that makes us confident that they will fulfill OAT position successfully:
AJ Warner
- Has high context of Arbitrum as OCL’s CSO, where he leads ecosystem efforts and works closely with many teams. He has experience guiding initiatives and building relationships across the Arbitrum action space and Arbitrum stakeholders. This gives us confidence in his ability to handle operational development and strategic coordination with many stakeholders.
- Mainly: he has a holistic understanding of the operational responsibilities needed for initiatives to “work” in an Arbitrum specific context. OpCo will only be successful if members understand the unspoken strings that tie operations and initiatives together, AJ seems the best candidate for this.
0xRecruiter
- This candidate was the one with the most experience aligned with the Hiring, Termination, & Authorization responsibility with great experience in recruitment, identifying qualified and mission aligned candidates as proven with his leading hiring on OCL across 5 departments, and before during his time at Binance US. Has experience coordinating across teams and departments, identifying talent needs, onboarding and balancing operations required, all of these points will be key in fulfilling the OAT mandate and providing consistency in DAO programs.
- Has context of the DAO and technical profiles needed to fulfill key Arbitrum positions and deliver key Arbitrum products.
Frisson
- Has experience coordinating and building teams with Lucid and Tally, where he also leads in a cross functional role.
- Has successfully led Arbitrum specific initiatives such as Arb Staking and actively contributed in Arbitrum DAO roles as Communications Chair of ARDC and MSS. He also has great operational experience reporting and communicating with DAO stakeholders. He was the best candidate to fulfill navigating the DAO landscape to ensure initiatives work with and for the DAO.