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This post provides an update on near-term hiring plans at Epik Holdings Inc.


What are we about at Epik?


Epik is helping to accelerate the transition of the Internet to a more decentralized and resilient architecture that empowers humanity to achieve their potential. Through breakthrough initiatives like Toki, we believe we can play a useful role in bringing another one billion people online in the next 5 years.


We are open 24/7/365, united by a shared passion for building a better digital world. We celebrate our wins, improve continuously, and adapt quickly. We partner with demanding customers to deliver superior value for money while passing along savings from process efficiencies and supply chain improvements.


We believe domains are a high potential asset class and that there is still opportunity for anyone. For the domain community, we are committed to co-creating abundance, making the pie BIGGER by helping the industry to achieve higher prices, higher sell-through rates, while providing maximum capital efficiency.


At Epik, we place emphasis on having the best team with the strongest players. We believe everyone on the team brings unique gifts and talents. The shared task of management and staff is to match those unique attributes with opportunities that create value while also having fun doing it. As part of a planned international expansion, Epik is now looking for four types of staff:

  • Brand Ambassadors
  • County or Region Managers
  • Product Managers


The below overview provides context on each category with details on how to apply.




Brand Ambassador


Brand Ambassadors will typically be organized by geography or language, but can also be organized by vertical or specialty or shared community interest that the brand ambassador knows well.


Brand ambassadors engage niche and local communities to leverage tools and services from Epik to increase digital empowerment, for example:

  • Social Media
  • Message board engagement
  • Seminars and Training events
  • Organize street teams
  • Channel Partnerships

We bring cutting edge technology that empowers, and do it at price points that anyone can afford. As we do this, we seek to be truly local: immersed in local culture, language and respecting local traditions.

The role can be part-time or full-time, and is well-suited to persons who are early in their career or want to be part of a high energy organization where they can learn and grow.

Compensation is locally competitive, and can be paid out daily, weekly or monthly. In the true spirit of meritocracy, compensation growth and performance bonuses are tied to impact.

Although brand ambassadors are not eligible to participate in the affiliate program, they can own domains for their own account and are encouraged to shoot the moon!

High performing brand ambassadors have the opportunity to become County or Region Managers


To apply, send a letter of introduction to Spencer Iacobelli: [email protected].




Country Manager or Region Manager

Once a country has at least 500 registered Epik.com users, we seek to appoint a country manager who will work with the management team to develop and execute the overall strategy for local market leadership. The country manager is developing local best practices, while leveraging global core competencies.

The country managers are empowered to build thriving local communities that can leverage the fast-growing set of tools available from Epik. Country managers actively learn from each other, quickly reapplying locally executed success models that are piloted in lead countries.

Country managers are the local feet on the ground. Their local presence also entails working with the ccTLD registry and local regulatory authorities. Country managers are also responsible for the development of local talent, and work with senior management to explore strategic opportunities.

To apply, send letter of introduction to Frank Meester, [email protected].




Product Manager

Epik.com is incubating a number of innovative products that are designed to be interoperable while improving lives through clearly defined value propositions that are tied to specific brand promises. Product Management opportunities exist for the following products:

- Anonymize.com: Privacy solutions, e.g. VPN (live)

- Armored.net: Secure Cloud storage (live)

- CloudChase.com: Resilient OpenStack Hosting (Dec 2019)

- BitMitigate.com: CDN and DDoS Mitigation (live)

- DNEncrypt.com: Free SSL certificates (Jan 2020)

- DNProtect.com: Domain Insurance (Jan 2020)

- DomainGraduate: Online training course (relaunching Nov 2019)

- DropElf.com: Tools for online expiry stream discovery (live)

- Epik Registrar: Our flagship product! (live)

- Epik Escrow: Our fast-growing service for domain transaction processing (live)

- Epik Marketplace: Domain name marketplace (live)

- FullVenue.com: Online event booking (beta)

- NameBrokers.com: Online broker network (Jan 2020)

- Masterbucks.com: Cloud Wallet (live - relaunching Jan 2020)

- Sibyl Systems: Resilient cloud hosting (live)

- Toki.com: Decentralized smart search engine (Jan 2020)

- TrustRatings.com: Online trust score (beta)

- Us.Tv: Online video publishing (live)

- Watchmask.com: Online video privacy (live)

- WhoQ.com: Universal WHOIS/RDAP/Blockchain name search (Q4 2019)


To apply, send letter of introduction to Rob Monster, [email protected] or Prathmesh Tokekar, [email protected].




What types of people succeed at Epik?


We develop courageous leaders who master productivity hacks, as a way to increase impact while enhancing quality of life and unleashing creative and inventive capacity. We place an emphasis on personal productivity helping staff to realize their true capacity.

While we warmly embrace diversity in our organization, there are some attributes that tend to appear early on among the staff who are most likely to succeed and grow. For example:

  • Self-starter
  • Problem solver
  • Adaptable
  • High integrity
  • Impact-focused
  • Tech-curious
  • Team player

As most of our back-office systems are in English, English fluency is strongly preferred. However, if someone is still learning English and is committed to achieve eventual fluency, we'll work with that person and get by with online translation tools where needed.

We trust our people to make wise choices, but also recognize that with speed, come mistakes. Our HR handbook is relatively simple: Do the right thing, even when nobody's looking. We may stretch people beyond their comfort zone, but also value life balance and time away from work.



What role is best for me?

Most people will typically identify a primary role where they believe and, we believe, they can succeed. Once onboarded, and after initial training, we'll also be on the lookout for opportunities to give you a project that plays to your unique strengths or passions.
 
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Would love to be involved as you roll into Australia. Do you envisage any part-time roles existing in the brand ambassador space?

I really enjoy my 9-5, but to say this space, particularly what Epik is doing, is exciting to say the least.
 
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Would love to be involved as you roll into Australia. Do you envisage any part-time roles existing in the brand ambassador space?

I really enjoy my 9-5, but to say this space, particularly what Epik is doing, is exciting to say the least.

Sure, we'll have part-time brand ambassadors. We are big on "Crawl, Walk, Run".
 
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Are there any public statistics regarding user count per country?
 
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Yes. Was interested if there are actually 500 EPIK users from my country.

Good point.

We have such stats. We don't publish them but could start doing so. It is not really a big secret. Will check with @vitigo and @Pat8 as we are putting some new Dashboard software online.

As for your country, I think you are in Latvia, where it is less than 500, but that is not a show-stopper for the right scenario. We had less than 500 in Romania and added a country manager there this week anyway.
 
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Good point.

We have such stats. We don't publish them but could start doing so. It is not really a big secret. Will check with @vitigo and @Pat8 as we are putting some new Dashboard software online.

As for your country, I think you are in Latvia, where it is less than 500, but that is not a show-stopper for the right scenario. We had less than 500 in Romania and added a country manager there this week anyway.

Numbers would go up if .lv, the local ccTLD would be supported. Most local businesses use .lv instead of .eu or .com.
 
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Quick update on hiring and the thinking behind the hiring activity..

We are adding country managers, and they are adding brand ambassadors. The brand ambassadors in turn recruit "Mayors" in cities. Here is the thinking:

- We can help domainers to be be better domainers. That was the premise behind introducing a free eCourse at DomainGraduate.com which is live and improving, and will be translated in many languages.

- However, to really grow the pie, we need more end-users building digital presence for which they need domains, hosting, etc. So local, decentralized presence is key.

- We will treat each team member as an individual with the goal of helping them to realize their fullest potential, by leveraging their strengths, and assembling complementary/balanced project teams.

- We will treat each customer as an individual. No customer will be just a number. Our objective is to have productive, win-win relationships.

- We will not have fancy headquarters. We will have decentralized teams embedded in communities, both virtually and physically. They can work anywhere, and will generally have no commute.

- Our culture will be highly entrepreneurial, responding nimbly to market opportunities and giving staff opportunities to lead entire businesses from the ground up.

- We will be automating vast numbers of routine tasks for administration and payments. This will increase efficiency, prevent fraud and reduce cost.

- With the cost savings achieved by controlling non-value-added overhead to fund digital empowerment projects and to provide (below) cost 1st year registrations to help domainers sell to end-users profitably.

- Although we will reward excellence and recognize impact with rapid increase in total compensation, we will not introduce commissions models that reward short-term opportunism.

- Eventually we will set up "Dojos" or similar co-creation hubs where Epik staff and clients can get together and amplify synergies.

For high integrity, entrepreneurial self-starters, this should be a very fun place to build a career, see the world, and make a lot of IMPACT.
 
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Welcoming Dan Sanchez to the Epik team:

https://www.namepros.com/members/dansanchez.168710/

@DanSanchez is a veteran domainer. He is our first Country Manager for LatAm and will also be helpful to breathe life into the Brand Ambassador network in LatAm.

He is an aggressive domain broker and will also work with our emerging brokerage team to help clients to close deals and SHOOT THE MOON.
 
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Thanks Rob, it's exciting to be part of the Epik family after so many months of working in conjunction with you and your team! I look forward to add value and expand Epik's abilities in the region.

On that note, consider sending your premium SPANISH inventory my way. Single words, popular phrases, and marketable domains are going to form part of our push into this under-rated market.

Welcoming Dan Sanchez to the Epik team:

https://www.namepros.com/members/dansanchez.168710/

@DanSanchez is a veteran domainer. He is our first Country Manager for LatAm and will also be helpful to breathe life into the Brand Ambassador network in LatAm.

He is an aggressive domain broker and will also work with our emerging brokerage team to help clients to close deals and SHOOT THE MOON.
 
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No doubt Number one Market Place for quality Domain Buyers and sellers as I have been using Epik since march 2019 fully satisfied and the award goes to helping CEO I wish I could apply
 
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No doubt Number one Market Place for quality Domain Buyers and sellers as I have been using Epik since march 2019 fully satisfied and the award goes to helping CEO I wish I could apply

Thanks Nisar.

Epik Pakistan will need a Country Manager and Brand Ambassadors. Don't be shy.

The .PK registry is not even run by Pakistan right now but we will add that accreditation anyway.
 
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Hi @Rob Monster. I'm not sure whether I'm suitable to be a Country Manager or my country has enough user base to add a country manager. But if any chance arises for Sri Lanka, let me know. I would like to be in Epik team.

BTW, I'm not a good public speaker :)
 
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Hi @Rob Monster. I'm not sure whether I'm suitable to be a Country Manager or my country has enough user base to add a country manager. But if any chance arises for Sri Lanka, let me know. I would like to be in Epik team.

BTW, I'm not a good public speaker :)

We all have our gifts and talents. Play to your strengths. Moses was not a good speaker either. Things worked out OK for him.
 
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Some quick introduction of the Country Managers (CMs) appointed to date.

- Balkans: John @Domain1031
- India: Prathmesh @Pat8
- Indonesia: Avif @Chairul avif
- Italy: Spencer @spencer
- Nigeria: Saheed @domainexpert77
- Romania: Petru @CreativeMedia.us
- Vietnam: Nhi @Nhi Doan

The "Countries" are being divided up into regions with local brand ambassadors (BA). The Balkans obviously is a collection of countries, e.g. Montenengro will start with BA.

The country managers pick their own BAs. I will typically do a final interview for any candidate but only after the CMs get at least one other CM to sign off on a hiring recommendation.

As of today, there is no regional leadership so the country managers report directly to me. Eventually that won't scale, so there will be eventually be Territory Directors, promoted from within.

The local brand ambassadors recruit "Mayors" for hosting Toki servers. The first 100 Toki servers are coming online in Nigeria, hopefully before year-end. @Joshua Mayowa is the first and moving fast.

So, eventually, at scale, it looks like this:

- CEO
- Territory VP (e.g. Africa)
- Country Manager (e.g. Nigeria)
- Regional Brand Ambassador (e.g. 6 for all of Nigeria)
- Toki Mayor (e.g. could be thousands per region)

Just 4 layers to get to the smallest village run by a "Mayor".
Interesting....

@Rob Monster ....How can I be part of this and thinking of moving my portfolio (50-100%) to Epik which will soon run into hundreds and thousands of domains for my expired domains for SEO project at GetDomainData.com.

Also, I run the fastest growing Q&A forum in Nigeria which could be instrumental to your platform's publicity FoskaayForum.
 
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Hello
I am from Bangladesh and very much interested to work with epik in Bangladesh. I am a local domainer and looking forward to introduce epik in Bangladesh.
 
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Hello
I am from Bangladesh and very much interested to work with epik in Bangladesh. I am a local domainer and looking forward to introduce epik in Bangladesh.

Domaining is definitely picking up in Bangladesh, as are Epik signups from Dhaka and beyond. As for a CM or BA role at Epik, PM some details:

- Resume, CV or Bio
- Epik account email
- What are you amazing at?
- Why you would be effective in this role? (optional)
- Compensation expectations (optional)
 
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Interesting....

@Rob Monster ....How can I be part of this and thinking of moving my portfolio (50-100%) to Epik which will soon run into hundreds and thousands of domains for my expired domains for SEO project at GetDomainData.com.

Also, I run the fastest growing Q&A forum in Nigeria which could be instrumental to your platform's publicity FoskaayForum.

That sounds interesting. Followed you on NP. @domainexpert77 should get in touch.

As you may be aware, Epik is moving quickly in the most populous country of Africa. We have great optimism about the future there and have already added some capable talent there. The first Toki servers are also expected to be deployed there shortly.
 
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Epik.com is now the most innovative company👍 so many products, that's really impressive.
 
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Interesting....

@Rob Monster ....How can I be part of this and thinking of moving my portfolio (50-100%) to Epik which will soon run into hundreds and thousands of domains for my expired domains for SEO project at GetDomainData.com.

Also, I run the fastest growing Q&A forum in Nigeria which could be instrumental to your platform's publicity FoskaayForum.
Interesting....

@Rob Monster ....How can I be part of this and thinking of moving my portfolio (50-100%) to Epik which will soon run into hundreds and thousands of domains for my expired domains for SEO project at GetDomainData.com.

Also, I run the fastest growing Q&A forum in Nigeria which could be instrumental to your platform's publicity FoskaayForum.


Sounds great!

I just followed you on NP.

Let's have a discussion via Private Message.
 
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That sounds interesting. Followed you on NP. @domainexpert77 should get in touch.

As you may be aware, Epik is moving quickly in the most populous country of Africa. We have great optimism about the future there and have already added some capable talent there. The first Toki servers are also expected to be deployed there shortly.
Okay, Noted.
Thanks!
 
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Sounds great!

I just followed you on NP.

Let's have a discussion via Private Message.
I just initiated a conversation with you via DM. Kindly check and respond
 
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