Community & Trust Lead

The Role

You build the trust, safety, and community systems that protect users across KI platforms. This is especially critical for projects like Annex, where zero-knowledge identity means traditional moderation tools don't apply. You design trust systems that work without compromising privacy.

You also own community strategy — building the spaces where developers, users, and contributors engage with KI projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement trust and safety systems compatible with privacy-preserving architectures
• Develop community guidelines, moderation frameworks, and enforcement processes
• Build and manage community channels — forums, Discord, developer relations, contributor programs
• Monitor platform health metrics — user reports, abuse patterns, community sentiment
• Coordinate with engineering on tooling for automated and human-in-the-loop moderation
• Represent the user perspective in product and architecture decisions

Requirements

• 5+ years in trust/safety, community management, or platform integrity roles
• Privacy-aware moderation. You understand the tension between safety and privacy and can design systems that respect both
• Technical literacy. You can work with engineers on trust tooling without needing everything translated
• Community builder. You've grown and managed online communities — not just moderated them
• Crisis-tested. You've handled platform incidents, abuse escalations, or community crises and kept things together

Compensation

Equity in Kuykendall Industries and salary upon revenue. No salary today. This is a bootstrapped company. The founder has been building everything without funding, without a team, and without a paycheck from this entity. You enter that same environment.

Who this works for: Someone with savings, consulting income, or another reason they can afford to work for equity in the near term. Someone who looks at the scope of what's been built, understands the commercial potential, and makes a calculated bet.

Who this does not work for: Someone who needs a paycheck on day one. Someone who treats equity as a consolation prize. No judgment — but don't waste your time or ours.

The Builder Clause

We don't care where you went to school. We don't care if you went to school. Our founder is self-taught, started coding at 13, and built a 602,000-line cognitive architecture without a CS degree.

Meet the qualifications, or show us what you've built. Either path works. Both paths demand excellence.

Apply

Ready to move? Send a short note of relevant proof-of-work — past shipped projects, metrics you moved, or a draft of your first 30 days.