Head of Communications

San Francisco, CA (On-site)

$180K/yr – $275K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape Nirvanas communications and PR to elevate market presence, lead investor and executive messaging, spearhead media relations, and drive internal communications in a fast-growing AI/insurtech environment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own our communications and PR strategy to elevate our market presence with investors, candidates, customers and partners
  • Craft compelling narratives that position us as the category-defining innovator in AI and Insurance
  • Shape investor-facing messaging and materials alongside the CEO
  • Advance executive visibility through thought leadership and public presence
  • Cultivate strong relationships with press and influencers
  • Manage internal communications in partnership with key stakeholders

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in communications, PR, corporate communications, or a related field
  • In-house experience building and scaling the comms function in high-growth companies without an existing playbook
  • Experience with executive communications and building leadership presence
  • Strong relationships with tech, business, fintech and/or insurtech press
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strategic and analytical thinker who can distill complex technical and product concepts into compelling stories for different audiences
  • Thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments
  • Bias-to-action: you move fast and aren't afraid to get your hands dirty

Preferred

  • Experience managing multiple brands / product lines is a plus

Benefits

  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Medical, dental & vision insurance (100% employer paid)
  • 401k with up to 4% company match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Wellness reimbursement
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Nirvana Insurance

4.1 Glassdoor

Nirvana is on a mission to harness the power of data to revolutionize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. We are bringing much-needed innovation into the legacy, trillion-dollar commercial insurance industry. We have developed cutting-edge predictive models that use real-time IoT data from billions of connected devices, allowing us to better understand and price risk. Our AI-driven platform fundamentally changes the way an insurance company operates with personalized risk scoring, faster underwriting, modernized claims, and proactive, data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.We’ve already proven the scale—reaching well over $100 million in premiums and more than doubling year over year. Our data moat is growing exponentially with more than 20 billion miles of telematics data, leading to more predictive models and new insights into how we can better understand and reduce risk. Altogether, our loss ratio, efficiency, and customer experience are redefining what can be done in the industry.With $170+ million raised, including an industry-leading Series C round in January 2025, we’re only accelerating our growth, with strong support from top-tier VCs including Lightspeed, General Catalyst, and Valor. Nirvana’s leadership team has previously helped scale multi-billion-dollar companies from scratch, including Samsara, Rubrik, and Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, The Hartford, and RLI.

Founded in 2020
San Francisco, California, USA
244 employees (19 in marketing)
80% recommend to a friend
88% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.7%
Direct
56.8%
Referral
6.6%
Social
5.3%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~246

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
12 (5% of company)
Median Tenure
2.6 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$162.2M
Last Raise
Series C, 1 years ago

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