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Exa
Director of Communications
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AI
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Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$200,000 – $300,000 / year
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
12 August 2026
What they need
- The most valuable communications asset a company like ours has is the credibility of its founders and leaders
- In the AI space, people follow people. Your first job is to build that: to develop a genuine point of view with our founders and executives, put it into words in their voice, and place it where the audiences that matter will encounter it
- Ghostwriting is core to this role. You will write essays, posts, op-eds, and talk narratives that sound like the person whose name is on them, on a fast cadence, about technically substantive topics
- Around that sits the rest of the function: a speaking pipeline that positions us alongside the world’s frontier AI labs, our social and owned channels, and press
- Press runs through an agency today and you’ll manage it. You’ll also be the person who shepherds a response plan if something goes wrong
- Own the development and expression of our leaders’ public points of view: essays, tweets, op-eds, interviews, and the editorial calendar behind them. Ghostwrite at volume and at quality. Success is measured by audience growth, engagement from the people we want listening, and the leaders’ own confidence that the words are theirs
- Own the pipeline of conferences, podcasts, panels, and industry moments: sourcing, evaluating, securing, prepping, and coaching. Success is measured by the quality of placements accepted and by performance in the room
- Own media strategy and results, managing our agency today and building the in-house function over time. Own launch coverage, reactive and inbound press, relationships with the reporters who matter in AI infrastructure, and the messaging discipline behind every conversation. Success is measured by coverage that reaches technical and enterprise buyers, not just volume
- Own company social presence and editorial cadence: what we say, when, in what voice, and how we amplify the work of our engineers. Coordinate employee engagement to amplify company socials. Success is measured by owned audience growth and by whether developers find our channels worth following
- Own the story and calendar for announcements, launches, milestones, and anything that requires a coordinated public position. Success is measured by message discipline across every surface on the day
- Own the playbook before we need it: escalation paths, holding statements, spokesperson prep, and judgment about when to engage versus stay quiet. Be ready with a rapid response when reporters need a soundbite. Success is measured by calm, fast, correct handling when something breaks
- Use AI in research, drafting, and measurement, but show good judgment in keeping human authenticity in our public statements and thought leadership
- What Success Looks Like:
- Our founders and executives have distinct, credible public voices, with output shipping on a reliable cadence
- Speaking placements are good enough that we turn some down
- Owned channels grow an audience that includes the developers and buyers we care about
- Press coverage lands with technical and enterprise audiences and holds up factually
- Every major company moment lands with one consistent story- A track record building an executive’s public profile and social followers, with evidence of what drove the growth
- Real press results in technology or enterprise media
- 8+ years in communications, PR, or editorial roles, including time inside a high-growth technology company rather than only agency-side
- Enough technical literacy to write credibly about AI, search, and infrastructure without embarrassing the person you are writing for
- Sound judgment under pressure. You have handled at least one genuinely difficult public moment
- Experience managing an agency well: setting the brief, holding them to results, and knowing when to override them
- Experience securing meaningful speaking placements and prepping people to perform in them
- Exceptional writing craft, specifically ghostwriting. Bring samples you wrote for someone else’s byline, with permission to discuss them
- A journalism or editorial background
- Experience in AI, developer tools, or deep technology, and existing relationships with reporters in that beat
- Analyst relations experience, since this becomes relevant as we sell more to the enterprise
- Comfort producing beyond text: video, podcast, or event formats
- Experience building a comms function in-house from an agency-first setup
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