Account Director (AI / Emerging Tech)

About the role

We’re a strategic communications agency trusted by the world’s most groundbreaking startups and established technology brands. From AI to frontier tech, our clients are redefining what’s possible, and we’re the storytellers behind their success.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and day-to-day oversight across multiple client accounts, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Serve as a senior advisor to executive stakeholders, delivering proactive counsel
• Shape positioning and messaging for emerging tech and AI companies, simplifying complex concepts into clear, differentiated stories
• Develop and execute proactive media strategies, securing top-tier and trade coverage across business, tech, and AI-focused outlets
• Build and oversee integrated communications programs across media relations, executive visibility, thought leadership, and campaigns
• Drive major announcements, product launches, funding news, and narrative development
• Identify timely storytelling opportunities tied to industry trends and cultural moments
• Maintain and strengthen relationships with top-tier media, analysts, and influencers
• Oversee quality of all deliverables, ensuring work is strategic, polished, and on brief
• Manage scopes of work, budgets, forecasting, staffing, and account profitability
• Lead client strategy meetings and act as a central point of contact for account health
• Guide teams in planning and execution with a big-picture perspective
• Support crisis communications with clear strategy and recommendations
• Develop high-level messaging and positioning; lead or support media training
• Identify organic growth opportunities and contribute to new business efforts
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver integrated programs
• Mentor and develop team members through coaching and feedback

Requirements

You’re a strategic communicator with a deep curiosity for how technology works, not just what it does. You’re fluent in the language of AI, developer platforms, and emerging tech, and you know how to turn complex concepts into compelling narratives that land with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in public relations, corporate communications, or integrated marketing
• 3–5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing teams
• Deep experience in emerging tech, including AI/ML, developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, or enterprise SaaS
• Experience working with or marketing to developer audiences (e.g., APIs, open source, technical products, engineering leaders)
• Proven success advising senior leaders and managing complex, multi-workstream programs
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets, resourcing, and client profitability
• Exceptional writer and editor with experience shaping executive messaging and positioning
• Strong media acumen with an understanding of today’s evolving earned landscape
• Confident communicator who can lead meetings, workshops, and strategic discussions
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-growth environments with multiple stakeholders
• Champion the use of AI tools and emerging tech to enhance writing, research, and content production efficiency
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or related field preferred

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package, including annual salary range of $125,000–$165,000 DOE
• 401k with match
• Generous employer contributions toward insurance premiums
• Paid mental health benefits
• Unlimited vacation
• 15+ paid holidays plus a paid end-of-year office closure
• Paid short-term disability and extensive parental leave benefits
• Cell phone reimbursement

Pay

$125,000–$165,000 DOE

Schedule

Full-time