Build the runtime for tomorrow's organization.

Partner-grade, not a sales leader. Shape how the paradigm shift reaches the people who can underwrite it: category positioning, partner strategy, founder-led pipeline into the first cohort of pilots. You own the commercial surface; the CEO stays in the room.

The substrate anchor. RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL fluency, preferably with years spent on production knowledge-graph systems. You own the correctness and expressive power of the runtime's semantic layer: ontology design, query performance, shape validation, property functions that invoke actions.

AI-supervised, product-minded, not a hand-coder. You work with coding agents as a force multiplier, review their output with rigor, and ship systems, not files. Senior judgment on what to build and what to leave out.

Community and ecosystem, not marketing. You code the demos, write the docs, run the Discord, review community PRs on the OSS runtime, and turn the first cohort of external builders into a platform. Engineering-native DevRel.

Sit inside pilot engagements, author the first matrices against real operating models, and carry customer reality back into the product. The role exists because at this stage, no one on the team is closer to the customer than the person who deploys with them.