Director of Domain Name Registrar

Posted 17 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
Remote
Hybrid
Senior level
eCommerce • Legal Tech • Professional Services • Software • Data Privacy
Fighting hubris, mission statement hypocrisy, and a tendency to overcomplicate things. We try to do good work each day.
The Role
The Director of Domain Name Registrar will own the product from both operational and technical perspectives, focusing on developing a customer-centric domain registrar. Responsibilities include developing the product vision, motivating the team, and leading domain services with extensive industry expertise.
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Overview:
We own an accredited ICANN registrar in stealth mode at this point. We currently service a little over 3 million active businesses and you can see the potential there if you're familiar with domain names.
We are looking for someone to truly own the Domain Registrar product from the operations side and the tech side. This is a new position with us and there's no cap on where you could grow this position into.
As a company, we currently maintain a domain roster of more than 9,000 domains that are just our own companies. We are one of the largest corporate registrants (we form businesses) and we are definitely the largest one you've never heard of. Because of this, we've tried just about every registrar out there. Literally, like every one over the last 10 years. Domain registrars have to focus on the upsell because there's not a lot of profit margin between the wholesale registry and ICANN costs over retail and mega-user pricing. We have the luxury of not needing to put our users through upsell hell. We are family-owned and operated. We have no debt and no investors. We can truly focus on the clients.
We have a commitment to simply making the most customer-centric domain registrar that has ever been made and the best, most economical pricing. You'll work with our stakeholders and a diverse tech team to drive and own our domain services. You should have extensive industry experience and be passionate about where the industry can improve.
Location:
Remote | Spokane - Austin - SLC |
Duration:
Full Time
Wage:
$200,000/year
Responsibilities:

  • Develop our product vision, goals, and drive implementation of our Domain Registrar.
  • Help motivate and build our team of employees passionate about making domains awesome.
  • Be the domain services lead.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • You should really, really know how domains work. Like auth codes, deletion, redemption, escrow, registrars, registrants, registries, dropping, auto renewals, and UDRPs aren't things you need to Google
  • You should really, really, really understand how domains are registered and maintained.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • You have extensive experience in the industry and you have something floating around in your head that you've always wanted to make a reality. This is your chance!


Why you might like this job:
You've painfully submitted to GoDaddy for years and wondered: "Why do they still suck and have a bad client experience when they have all the money in the world?" You were a little bummed when Uni sold to GoDaddy. You know when I'm talking about parking, it's not your car. You hate dealing with domain "investors" but would love to help domainers. You always click back to classic for GoDaddy auctions and you don't trust Google domains. You were a little sad when Phoenix went down and Escrow.com sold and the new owners turned out to be a pain to deal with. You wish Dropcatch wasn't such a pain and you wish the Domain King wouldn't bid on stuff and stayed retired so we wouldn't have to listen to him or have to bid against him. You wish Namesilo was still a couple of dudes just offering amazing customer service over email, but you're annoyed they wouldn't answer the phone and bummed to see them publicly-owned now and committed to upsell hell. You wish you could place orders on snap or Namejet and get all the wins in one registrar instead of the insanity they provide for you now. You wonder what on earth happened to Moniker.
You just keep wondering...when will someone just simply focus on helping people register and maintain domains in an awesome way. If you have any clue what I'm saying after reading all this, and you are still excited at this point, you have found your dream job. Please apply.
There's a lot of pain in this industry created by greed. If you'd like to make a registrar that is simply the best and easiest to work with. We'd love to talk.
#BI-Remote
Benefits:

  • Great Wage & Success Meetings with your manager
  • Work From Home comfort package & company provided equipment
  • 22 days paid time off annually, PLUS 4 paid holidays
  • 4% 401k employer matching through Fidelity
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Flexible hours
  • Coffee shop next door
  • Crappy parking? Oh, I mean a cool downtown location for easy public transportation options...

What the Team is Saying

Jason
Joshua Stubb
Josh Groeschl
The Company
Austin, TX
800 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Two Barrels is a Professional Services as a Product Company. ( A PSAAP - Duh! ) We run our company via product life cycles. We use tech to make amazing products and invest heavily in humans to help our clients with their business services needs.

Two Barrels is family-owned and operated, employs over 650 good humans across the nation, and services over 3 million active businesses nationwide. As we've grown, we've maintained a 95% employee retention rate. We have no debt, no investors, no venture capital, and no private equity.

What does it mean to be family-owned and operated?

Well, it's not perfect. But growth, profits, KPIs, endless investor meetings, warrants, options pools, vesting, or manipulating employees to be indentured servants in exchange for paper shares that won't make you rich, aren't things we have to deal with here.

We try to do good work and see where it goes. That's our actual mission statement. We try to make our customers and our employees happy. We get to focus on that versus making investors happy. We are well aware of competing with startups, and VC and PE-funded, or worse yet, public companies' total compensation packages, so we bring it up. We are different. Our packages include an excellent salary and 401K to buy stock wherever you want. We try to make our overall benefits better each year as we grow. We offer tough challenges—focusing on the journey as the reward, not the finish line. We try to hire people we enjoy being around.

We're not a platform or an AI cool guy place. We're not software as a service/whatever is the cool thing that gives investors a reason to ask for a higher multiple on their next round of stock dilution. Whoops, I mean, investment for the future.

We make business entity compliance tools. We power over 50,000 Professional Services that do registered agent service, corporate filings, VoIP phones, credit card processing, and various tech products. Here's a few examples of industry leaders riding on our backbone:

https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/service-signup
https://www.registeredagentsinc.com/solutions/

We made a CRM system but focused on a whole stack of solutions for our business services customers and now we're pretty busy and could use your help. Thanks for looking!

Why Work With Us

A mid sized company servicing millions of clients, employing hundreds, but being family owned and operated with no debt, investors, VC, or PE in the tech space is unique. We offer stability, flexibility, and an opportunity to make a high impact almost immediately. We don't sell data to third parties. We're extremely open source and privacy focused.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

As a hybrid employer we have full-time remote employees and employees that live near our offices who have the option to work in-office or from home. There are just a few, select roles that specify and require some in-office time.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
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