| Contract Duration: | 8 months |
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| Work Capacity: | 0.8–1.0 FTE |
| Employment Structure: | Korea-based payroll (DML Korea) |
| Location: | Remote-first; preferably based in South Korea. Candidates must be eligible to work under a Korea-based payroll structure. |
| Travel: | Occasional UK/EU travel (as needed) |
| Language Requirement: | Korean + English (bilingual working proficiency required) |
| Start Date: | Q2 2026 (Ideal start date in April) |
| Application Deadline: | 24th March 2026, end of day KST (Korea Standard Time) |
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Dark Matter Labs sits at the intersection of governance, law, digital infrastructure, and systemic transition. The Seoul office is building a civic tech engineering practice inside the wider DML ecosystem. We are formalising and scaling our technical discipline to match the ambition of our governance and systems work — we’re actively establishing the technical discipline, patterns, and delivery muscle needed to turn DML’s concepts into real, scalable civic infrastructure.
This is not a traditional product manager role. You will act as the architectural bridge between governance intent, backend engineering, and service design. You will ensure technical coherence across AI, identity, payments, and governance logic as the platform evolves toward UK expansion and 2027 capital positioning.
Permissioning the City (PtC) is developing a modular, adaptive civic licensing and urban asset platform that brings together conversational rule-making, multi-layer verification, DID-based trust, payments/liability-sharing, and civic dashboards. The platform is being established in South Korean contexts and is now evolving toward a globally adaptable service model.
From Q2, we will translate the initial codebase into English-led services and extend the platform for use across different contexts, including optional Web3-enabled features where relevant. The goal is to evolve a semi-ready platform into a modular civic protocol layer that can be deployed and adapted internationally.
We’re looking for mission-driven people who can turn concepts into engineering, technology into service, and platforms into civic protocols — and who enjoy building the foundations of a new technical practice within a systems-led organisation.
We are looking for a technical product architect (Product owner & Systems integrator) who can: