FIND THE ROLE YOU'RE HIRING FOR.

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Primary archetype

AI-Operator-Class CMO / Head of Growth

For AI-native, Web3, or fintech companies that need a senior marketing leader who can run lean by orchestrating AI.

The "one person doing four roles, ships at exec velocity, knows when AI fails and when to override it" archetype. Not a marketer who learned to use AI, an operator who treats AI orchestration as a deployable system.

Primary evidence

• ▸4.5 years sole marketing operator at Syscoin Foundation across 9 products (Syscoin core, Rollux L2, SuperDappAI, zkSYS, Pegasys, Pali Wallet, BlockNaija, plus regional programs). Title of record: Marketing & PR Manager. Functional scope: CMO/CCO. Full dossier →
• ▸~7 autonomous AI agents in standing production (with a 3-agent Codex CLI failover layer) across two workstations, plus 2 interactive build pair-agents (Cursor, Claude Desktop) and 1 interactive oracle (GodTerminal, paused). Black Box I runs the autonomous operator stack (including Aria, the live Kalshi prediction-market trading agent at 40:1 operating leverage, and its Opus oversight manager). Black Box II runs the creative/persona pipelines and interactive build pair-agents. Direct proof of AI operation, not AI prompting. /ai →
• ▸2 billion organic impressions in a single 30-day window at $1,000 affiliate-badge cost (creators compensated with the badge itself, not cash), coordinating 17 affiliates. The campaign methodology proven first on a single zero-budget account (3.3M impressions in 4 weeks).
• ▸+933% community growth across blockchain ecosystems through two bear cycles without pausing. Substrate: WSS / SysArmy ambassador economy (298 applications → IP-deduped → 160 vetted humans, weekly 5-axis point grading).
• ▸Strategic doctrine authored at altitude, Sovereign Infrastructure thesis Dec 2025 (institutional pivot connecting tax law + RWA + grant strategy), FORGE Campaign Strategic Assessment Q1-Q2 2026 (285 KB), AI Strategy Brief v7. Doctrine-level writer, not just campaign-brief level.

Target companies

Anthropic-tier AI labs · Coinbase / OpenAI / Polygon-tier · mid-stage agent-platform startups · ZK rollup ecosystems · AI-native fintech / consumer companies that need real CMO scope without bloated marketing-team headcount.

02

Highest-leverage emerging role

AI Operations / Agent Orchestration Lead

The new role companies are creating in 2026 as they pull back from "we use AI" toward "we deploy AI agents in production with operator discipline."

Companies are realizing that pure-AI builds without competent operator oversight produce mediocre output at high cost. The valuable role is the human who orchestrates AI to produce work humans couldn't ship alone. Few candidates have evidence of this at production scale; Patrick does.

Primary evidence

• ▸Two-workstation production stack: ~7 autonomous agents + 3-agent Codex CLI failover layer + 2 interactive build pair-agents + 1 interactive oracle (paused), in continuous operation. Autonomous agents (Black Box I): Aria (live Kalshi trader, Claude Sonnet 4.6, WSL headless) · Aria Manager (Opus oversight, audits Aria's logs/process for hallucinations) · Syscoin CMO/CTO archivist · Rift Wars CTO (Claude Opus 4.8) · Rift Wars Social Manager · Rift Wars Web Manager · Claude Code Archivist. Codex CLI failover layer: 2 Meta Machina/Rift Wars instances · 1 Marketing instance. Interactive build pair-agents (Black Box II): Cursor (multi-model UE5/Unity/Maya MCPs) · Claude Desktop (Meta Machina/Unreal MCP). Interactive oracle: GodTerminal (paused). Pipelines: ComfyUI image generation · Instagram Persona. Control surface: custom MCP Agent Comm Hub + BlackBox Console (Electron UI). Roadmap (not counted): Influencer Monetization framework (paused), idiOOS (in dev).
• ▸Aria, live production trading agent: 40:1 operating leverage (~$50/day net on ~$1.20/day operating cost), 48% win rate on $0.16–$0.30 mispriced brackets (break-even sits at 16–30%), $150/day budget cap, $10/trade max. First-window return 38% on active bankroll.
• ▸Personal Manager Agent, Technical Proposal (225 KB): fully-specified trustless engagement-bounty agent architecture. Verifies social proof across X/Instagram/TikTok/image; on-chain payouts; RBAC (Owner/Admin/User/Auditor); rate limits, spend caps, tamper-evident audit logs. Deployable infrastructure, not vapor.
• ▸FORGE Campaign Strategic Assessment (285 KB): architecture for the first blockchain campaign where AI agents earn tokens alongside humans in a unified economy. The pivot discipline (what got killed and why) is the main feature.
• ▸13-year parallel Systems Administrator III role at H&H Enterprises (600+ endpoints · 4 locations · 99.8% uptime · AWS→self-host migration). The compliance / uptime / audit-trail discipline that distinguishes AI ops from AI experimentation.

Target companies

Mid-stage companies (Series B–D) that have integrated LLMs in 2024-2025 and are now formalizing an AI Ops function · AI-agent platforms · enterprises rolling out agent infrastructure in production · finance/trading/marketing platforms where AI is moving from R&D to ops.

03

Advisory / fractional route

Fractional CMO / Marketing Operating Partner

For VCs, accelerators, founders, scaling startups that need senior marketing leadership on a fractional or advisory basis.

The ability to run multiple brands simultaneously is the hardest claim to verify. Patrick's track record verifies it directly, nine simultaneous Syscoin products plus a parallel SysAdmin III role plus 20 years of independent client work, all under one operator.

Primary evidence

• ▸Multi-product Syscoin record, 9 products in simultaneous production, sole marketing operator. Each with its own narrative, campaign cadence, KOL roster, and partnership pipeline.
• ▸20-year independent client work via 1 Digital Artist, Panama, Inland Corals, Tom Sub Zero, Hector Crushers, Precision Orthotics, Dynasty Corals, plus the Vegas creative-agency client base. Brand identity ownership across an unrelated set of clients in parallel. Dossier →
• ▸1DigitalCrypto / 1DigitalC, founded 2017, ongoing. Fractional / advisory / ecosystem-operator engagements outside the W2 Syscoin role.
• ▸Operator-grade discipline on shippable scope, every campaign documents what was killed and why. The pragmatic-design instinct fractional engagements specifically pay for.

Target engagements

VC portfolio companies (crypto/AI funds) needing CMO-level scope for 3-9 months · founders pre-CMO hire who need senior taste + execution · ecosystem partners launching new products · companies pivoting strategy that need an external doctrine-writer.

04

Traditional senior IC

Senior Marketing / Growth at AI-infrastructure or Web3 protocol

Coinbase, Anthropic, OpenAI, Polygon-tier, major L2s, AI agent platforms. Companies that need senior marketing IC depth plus native AI/Web3 literacy.

The traditional senior IC marketing role at a company where Web3/AI literacy is a hiring requirement, not a nice-to-have. Patrick has the rare combination of 4.5 years operating across major Web3 products plus the AI-native operating depth that the next generation of growth roles will require.

Primary evidence

• ▸4.5 years across Syscoin / Rollux / zkSYS / SuperDappAI, operator-level depth, not commentary-level. Dossier →
• ▸Brave Browser MOU signed Feb 20 2025 (Mickey Johnnysson), Brave Wallet integration, BAT utility, Brave Rewards Partner Program. Real partnership with a known Web3 brand.
• ▸ChainGPT integration shipped to 700+ SuperGroups with on-record co-CEO quote from Edward Sirofsky. Direct partnership-development record.
• ▸Honduras election infrastructure narrative, owned external positioning around a real-world cryptographic deployment in a national election. Rare in crypto, which usually operates in retail tone.
• ▸Verified press URLs: syscoin.org official profile · Honduras article · Bitcoin scaling quote · DroomDroom solo-dev · Davos co-author.

Target roles

Senior Product Marketing · Head of Growth · Head of Ecosystem · Head of Comms at L2s, ZK rollups, AI infrastructure companies, major exchanges, AI agent platforms.

05

Deepest evidence niche

Ecosystem / KOL / Partnership Operator

For L2s, AI platforms, protocols that need someone to run KOL economies, ambassador programs, multi-region expansion with audit-trail discipline.

The niche where Patrick has the cleanest receipts in the entire industry. KOL economies are notorious for unverifiable claims and inflated metrics. The WSS / SysArmy work, the MAGIC orchestration sheet, the Belu Crew tweet-URL audit trail, and the Africa Expansion budget discipline together form a body of evidence few candidates can match.

Primary evidence

• ▸WSS / SysArmy ambassador economy, 298 applications processed → IP-correlation sybil cleanup → 160 unique vetted humans → weekly 5-axis point grading. Real forensic discipline at the spreadsheet level, not vanity-metric reporting.
• ▸Named KOL roster, Hotep Jesus, JoshRoomsburg (ambassador deal), Belu Francese (anchor for the Sep 30 2024 80-KOL Spanish-language drop reaching 44.4M aggregate followers), DroomDroom press (10 articles), and ~25 mid-tier KOLs coordinated via the MAGIC daily cascade orchestration sheet.
• ▸Belu Crew Sep 30 2024 drop, 80 Spanish-language mega-KOLs, ~44.4M aggregate followers, every contributing tweet captured in the campaign record.
• ▸Africa Expansion program, 8 countries, 15 named ambassadors, 12 in-person events/yr, 4 quarterly hackathons. Documented multi-university circuit (LASU, BlockchainUNN 4.0, NSIT Ibom). BlockNaija (Ledger Architects · Lagos). $SYS UTXO live on FinchPay shipped.
• ▸Active partnership pipeline at departure, Pollum, PrimeLayer, PixelPAC, Bithumb, BitMart, Forbes, Chainwire, Snag Solutions, Sweatcoin, Bitcoin Asia, Cypherock. Real relationship inventory, not logo wall.

Target companies

L2s and ZK rollups · AI agent platforms · DeFi protocols launching points programs · projects pivoting from speculative-marketing to builder-onboarding · companies expanding into LATAM, Africa, or Southeast Asia with vetted community operations.