SingularityNET Hires Developer Marketing Associate, Ibby Benali, to Promote Network Growth Efforts

With strong ties to the SingularityNET community, Ibby looks forward to ramping our developer outreach program.

We outlined in our State of SingularityNET v1.1 update how our “biggest challenges this quarter involve hiring key talent to support our core team of more than 20 AI researchers.” Specifically, an important milestone for Q2 was to “make additional strategic hires within our marketing department to accelerate awareness of SingularityNET.”

Ibby Benali — SingularityNET’s new Developer Marketing Associate

Today, we’re pleased to announce the hiring of Ibby Benali — a long-time SingularityNET supporter and an early member of our community.

Ibby’s history with SingularityNET and our team is impressive. Because we’re aiming to tap more talented members from our community, we’ll be sharing her full story in a few weeks, along with ways for you to get more involved.

For now, we’d like to outline our primarily motivating factors for making this strategic hire.

Why We Created the Developer Marketing Associate Role

While our AI team has grown quite a bit since 2018 began, one of our most important goals this year is to scale a community of developers to build and launch services onto our network. Our internal AI team is already working on more than a dozen valuable services to seed the network (more on that next week), but creating a space for ongoing development is critical.

To scale a large community of skilled developers, the SingularityNET team has been building a custom community infrastructure suited for kickstarting this process. With a background in Information Architecture and Data Analysis, as well as a deep understanding of SingularityNET and our community, Ibby Benali was a natural fit for this role.

“As a Developer Marketing Associate, I will work to create effective platforms and infrastructures to better engage our community. Specifically, I will be employing a data-driven approach to identify the opportunities and challenges involved in scaling the SingularityNET developer community. “ — Ibby Benali, SingularityNET Developer Marketing Associate

How Ibby Will Contribute to Making Our Proposed Developer Community a Reality

As our Developer Marketing Associate, Ibby will be working alongside our Marketing, Platform, and AI teams to better serve the SingularityNET Community. She will be pivotal in:

Bringing the community’s ideas and feedback directly to our core team. Aggregating a community of developers to scale SingularityNET’s service offerings.

To achieve these goals, Ibby will be embedding herself within segments of our community to better understand your thoughts and needs. Fortunately, she already knows many of you well! Second, she will be helping our team design, build, and launch a community platform where AI/ML developers, futurists, and singularitarians can coordinate to create exciting projects. Further out, she will be helping to design a bounty program that will focus on promoting quality contributions from our community.

“I can’t say enough how proud I am to work for this community. We have a long and exciting road ahead, but I believe in this team, the vision, and our plan for execution. I look forward to helping SingularityNET launch several major initiatives this year, all aimed at growing the network and meeting our community’s needs.” — Ibby Benali, SingularityNET Developer Marketing Associate

We Look Forward to Bringing You More Updates Shortly

As we mentioned earlier, we’ll be covering more of Ibby’s background, qualifications, and goals in a detailed post that will be published over the next few weeks. Over that time, our team is also excited to bring you and the rest of our community closer to what we’ve been building over the last few months.