Director, Brand & Communications

Responsibilities

• Media relations across the full spectrum - legacy press, trade media, new media, and influential independent voices (substackers, newsletter writers, podcast hosts)
• Build and maintain real relationships with journalists, editors, and media figures covering AI, biotech, pharma, and the broader tech and founder ecosystem
• Expand PR and communications strategy around our pipeline drug assets, from scientific and regulatory milestones to patient and policy initiatives, op-eds, and external events
• Maintain a living, actionable read on the media landscape - tracking coverage, emerging narratives, and the voices that are gaining influence
• Work directly with the Head of Brand & Communications and co-founders on executive positioning and thought leadership
• Support planning and execution of external brand initiatives such as investor events, conferences, branded experiences, and our presence in the pharma and AI conversation
• Partner with our Content team on written, video, web, and social to advance brand goals
• Maintain and evolve internal brand resources - guidelines, design libraries, tools, and norms
• Build AI-powered systems and workflows that raise the speed, consistency, and quality of output across the function
• Be the internal authority on brand standards

Qualifications

• 7+ years in brand, communications, or a related field - ideally in-house at a tech company or VC
• Real exposure to media relations and external brand work
• Exceptional writer across formats - press materials, op-eds, executive briefings, brand narratives
• Deep knowledge of the media landscape: the reporters, substackers, newsletters, and podcasts shaping how tech and biotech thinks
• Comfortable working directly with founders, translating vision into external narrative with minimal hand-holding and maximum judgment
• High-ownership operator who manages multiple workstreams with minimal supervision and treats ambiguity as a creative problem, not a grievance
• Demonstrated track record with AI tools and systems in day-to-day work