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Leads Known’s corporate affairs function, integrating strategic communications, reputation management, public policy, government relations, and ecosystem engagement. Develops corporate positioning, drives media and thought leadership, influences AI and identity policy, builds relationships with federal agencies and standards organizations, and coordinates executives, technical teams, counsel, and advisors. Establishes the function, manages agencies and future hires, and delivers measurable market and policy outcomes.

Build and scale Known’s advisor network, ecosystem partnerships, and stakeholder engagement infrastructure. Manage the advisory council and Global Agent Accountability Initiative, develop relationship-mapping and lead-follow-up processes, organize events, and collaborate with commercial, marketing, communications, technical, standards, and executive teams. The role requires credible engagement with senior enterprise leaders, strong judgment, responsiveness, technical fluency, and execution in an ambiguous AI-focused environment.

Leads Known’s global channel and strategic partnership strategy for DNSid, building relationships with cloud providers, trust and identity platforms, GSIs, and technology partners. Develops partner economics, integrations, joint go-to-market motions, implementation methodologies, and customer success programs. Owns executive relationships, partner-led adoption, commercial outcomes, and team leadership while positioning DNSid as an identity and accountability layer for AI agents.

Lead Known’s communications strategy and establish agentic accountability as a market category. Responsibilities include media relations, rapid-response communications, policy and standards outreach, executive and advisory council visibility, launches, agency management, AI discoverability, thought leadership, and communications measurement. The role builds the communications function from zero, translates technical concepts for external audiences, and connects communications activity to pipeline, partnerships, government attention, standards traction, and developer engagement.

Represent the company in Internet standards working groups, track related drafts and discussions, revise specifications, respond to technical reviews, and develop reference implementations, interoperability tests, and demos. Build credibility with standards communities, provide CTO readouts, and gradually author independent drafts. The role requires protocol or infrastructure engineering expertise, identity technology knowledge, clear technical writing, delegation skills, and travel as needed.

Build and close new business for DNSid within fintech and banking. Own the enterprise sales cycle from prospecting and executive engagement through negotiation and contract execution. Develop account strategies, sales playbooks, and executive relationships, while partnering with product marketing, solutions engineering, and leadership to shape messaging, validate deployments, and build a new financial services commercial motion.

Lead product marketing for DNSid: define positioning, personas, GTM strategy, and launches. Build sales and partner enablement, capture customer insights, run competitive analysis, and drive commercial adoption across enterprise, developer, and ecosystem audiences.

Serve as the on-island operational liaison for the .ai TLD, managing stakeholder and registrant inquiries, coordinating with Identity Digital and GOA teams, supporting PR/communications, delivering presentations, producing technical documentation and reports, and participating in incident reviews to ensure registry service continuity.

Primary developer responsible for building a password-protected .AI dashboard that ingests near-real-time data from the Identity Digital Data Warehouse. Create a single-screen executive UI with drill-down toggles showing Registry Growth & Volume, Financial Performance, Technical & Infrastructure, and Security & Trust KPIs. Requires in-person stakeholder engagement in Anguilla and availability for emergency support and travel.

Serve as the technical bridge for DNSid: lead partner integrations end-to-end, build production integration code and reference implementations, run POCs and workshops, produce enablement docs, translate partner requirements into roadmap feedback, and represent the company in standards and partner forums.