Communications Director; Contractor

Identity Digital Innovation Labs (IDIL) is building DNSid, the foundational identity layer for the agentic internet. As AI agents become autonomous participants across enterprises, clouds and the public internet, DNSid gives every agent a persistent identity that can be verified wherever the agent operates.

We are creating a category, not entering one. Agentic accountability is a problem the market has not fully named yet, and our job over the next 18 months is to make sure that when the market names it, it names us. We have the raw material: a launched product story, an IETF submission, an Advisory Council of unusually senior people, and coverage in top-tier tech and business press.

What we do not have is anyone whose full-time job is turning that into market pull.

This is our first dedicated communications role, we're looking for an independent contractor with consideration to become a fulltime team member. You will set the narrative and you will also be the person on the phone with a reporter  you are looking for a role where you direct an agency and review their work, this is not it.

This role reports to the General Manager of Identity Digital Innovation Labs.

• 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

• 90 days: you have a real POV on where the program is working and where it isn't, and you have already placed something we didn't expect
• 6 months: reporters covering AI agents and enterprise security call us. "Agentic accountability" shows up in coverage we did not write. There's a rapid-response motion that runs without anyone asking
• 12 months: we are the reference point for agentic accountability in tech press, in DC, and inside LLM…