Responsibilities

• Cultivate key media relationships across tech, policy, cybersecurity, AI, and national security beats.
• Drive proactive coverage, manage inbound press inquiries, and host background briefings on complex topics.
• Track media trends and expand outreach to newsletters, podcasts, creators, and new formats.
• Execute comms strategies for major company milestones, governance, and transparency initiatives.
• Translate complex technical, legal, and policy issues into clear, accessible public narratives
• Partner with Legal, Policy, and Security teams to anticipate PR risks and manage crisis messaging.
• Draft reactive statements, Q&As, and plans for fast-moving regulatory, security, and platform issues.
• Build executive visibility through media interviews, keynotes, and thought leadership.
• Prep and counsel senior leaders for high-profile press engagements with talking points and briefing decks.
• Write press releases, blog posts, pitches, and communications plans while managing concurrent projects.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, journalism, or an agency environment.
• Proven track record building media relationships and successfully pitching/landing meaningful earned media stories.
• Deep knowledge of the U.S. media landscape across technology, business, policy, and national security, including newsroom operations and news judgment.
• Hands-on experience developing and executing end-to-end communications strategies for proactive campaigns and reactive issues.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills with a proven ability to translate complex subjects into compelling stories.
• Strong executive presence and experience collaborating effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Sound judgment, composure, and decision-making skills in a fast-paced environment

Preferred

• In-house or agency experience supporting technology clients or working in highly scrutinized sectors (e.g., national security, cybersecurity, privacy, trust and safety, public policy).
• Established relationships with premier technology, business, policy, national security, and cybersecurity journalists.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical, national security, or regulatory topics.
• Proven experience guiding organizations through high-stakes reputational, regulatory, or public policy issues.
• Direct experience acting as an official spokesperson, both on-the-record and for background.

Benefits

• Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).