Responsibilities

• Own the category. Make the market understand that autonomous agents create a new accountability gap, and make IDIL the name people reach for when they think about closing it. This is bigger than messaging
• Live on the front lines. Build and run a rapid-response engine so that when something breaks in AI, security, identity, regulation, or agents, we are in the story that day. Personally build the reporter relationships. Pitch, brief, background, place. Build an influence network, not a media list: the specific reporters, analysts, and independent voices who shape how this market thinks
• Work Washington. Navigate the DC media and policy landscape fluently (Politico, The Hill, trade press, agency and Hill briefings) as our government affairs and standards work accelerates across NIST, IETF and adjacent bodies
• Activate the Councils. Our Advisory Council is one of our biggest assets. Put their names, networks, and expertise to work on reporter conversations, stages, and bylines. Build the executive spokesperson bench alongside them: what each person can credibly own, and where they should show up
• Get us into the answer. Own GEO and AI discoverability. When someone asks an LLM about agent identity, we should be in the response. There is currently zero activity here
• Run launches and moments. Lead planning and execution for product launches, commercial and partnership announcements, standards milestones, and industry events, working with Product, Sales & Marketing
• Build the machine. Manage agency partners, establish the all-hands cadence and leadership messaging discipline we lack today, draft executive communications, and build the team behind you over time. This role is a team of 1 for the next 12 months
• Prove it works. Coverage is not the goal. Draw a straight line from what we publish to customer meetings, partnerships, government attention, standards traction, and developer engagement, and build the reporting that shows it
• Actively models and promotes Identity Digital’s core values through day-to-day interactions, behaviors, and decision-making
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 15+ years leading corporate or external communications in technology, with meaningful B2B and enterprise time
• Category creation experience. You've made a market believe in a problem it didn't know it had, and can point to the language, the coverage, and the outcomes
• Front-line media chops. You have personally pitched, newsjacked, and created opportunities that were not on a calendar. Managing an agency that does this is not a substitute
• Experience building a communications function from zero, at pace, without much cover
• Fluency with policy and standards audiences and the press that covers them
• Exceptional writing. You'll be asked to write, not to brief someone who writes. Expect a writing exercise in the process
• Range across owned and emerging channels: social, Substack, YouTube, podcasts, developer communities
• Comfort using AI to extend the function (research, monitoring, repeatable workflows) while keeping positioning and judgment human
• Experience translating technical work with engineers and product managers without flattening it
• Agency, contractor, and budget management