Head of PR & External Communications

About the role

This is a communications architecture role, building, not just managing. The foundational disciplines, narrative development, relationship building, message architecture, media strategy, are table stakes. What we are hiring for is someone who can build the model that AI-native companies aspire to, and that does not yet fully exist.

Responsibilities

• Corporate narrative and positioning: message architecture, audience-specific narrative tracks, and the discipline to hold consistency across a fast-moving company
• The communications system: editorial calendar, media strategy, agency management, and performance measurement
• Executive communications: building a durable CEO voice across socials, podcasts, speaking, and long-form writing, as a repeatable system rooted in genuine conviction
• Audience translation: distinct narrative tracks for developers, consumers, enterprise buyers, press, and recruits, each tuned in depth and frame of reference without diluting the substance
• Leverage automations to improve conventional PR workflows, reporting, dashboards, coverage tracking, competitive intelligence, etc.
• Cross-functional partnership: embedded communications input in product launches, investor narrative, and partnership strategy
• Competitive intelligence: a standing practice that informs narrative planning and keeps Wispr Flow ahead of the category conversation
• Reputation and issues management: proactive scenario planning, rapid response, and the judgment to make the right call under pressure

Requirements

10 or more years of communications experience, with meaningful time building programs and teams at high-growth technology companies
Range across narrative craft and distribution mechanics: you write well, you think in systems, and you do not outsource either
Demonstrated ability to translate technical complexity across multiple distinct audiences without losing substance for any of them
Business and financial fluency: you understand how positioning, growth narrative, and investor perception connect to communications strategy
Strong media relationships built on trust over time and a proactive news sense
Proven issues management judgment: you have handled something that mattered, under pressure, and made the right call
High agency, low ego: you ship, you give direct feedback, you are accountable for outcomes not outputs
AI-native in practice.

Qualifications

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Skills

Communications experience, narrative development, relationship building, message architecture, media strategy, business and financial fluency, media relationships, issues management, competitive intelligence, cross-functional partnership, AI-native skills.

Benefits

Relocation bonus, health, vision, dental insurance.

Pay

$200K – $250K

Schedule

Full time