Communications Director (Contractor)

Project Overview

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 at 7am. If 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.

Scope of Services

• 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