Director, Communications - AI and Innovation

Responsibilities

• Own the AI narrative and calendar: Build and run a rolling 12-month plan of launches, data releases, executive moments, and public stances across QuinStreet, QRP, askpond.com, and AI agent platforms.
• Lead the askpond.com launch: Own pre-launch, launch week, and follow-on activity, including positioning, the “first” claim, the owned landing page, the wire release, press briefings, and proof metrics.
• Grow QRP’s B2B voice: Create case studies, pursue trade-press placements, and deliver conference talks and webinars for insurance agencies and carriers.
• Tell the AI-agent platform story: Turn integrations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Meta, and agent protocols into news, and articulate our position on consumer consent and coverage transparency.
• Run proprietary research: Commission consumer and industry surveys, and package QuinStreet data into recurring reports that the press cites.
• Build executive thought leadership: Ghostwrite LinkedIn posts, op-eds, and talks, and prepare and book interviews with business and insurance trade press.
• Manage the communications machine: Oversee the PR agency, wire service, media lists, owned newsroom, social channels, and the metrics that show what worked.
• Keep communications compliant: Partner with legal and compliance on claims, regulated-product language, and partner approvals.

Requirements

• 8+ years in communications, PR, or product marketing, including launches you led end to end
• Fluency in AI, with the ability to explain LLMs, AI agents, and platform integrations to reporters and carriers
• Existing relationships with business, technology, or insurance and fintech press
• Strong writing for press releases, executive posts, and op-eds that need little editing
• Comfort turning data into stories and working with analysts on surveys
• A track record of running many workstreams at once as a team of one, with agency support

Preferred

• Background in insurance, insurtech, or financial services, including regulated claims and carrier partnerships
• B2B experience selling to agencies or carriers
• Experience launching on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar AI platforms

Benefits

• the Company’s standard employee benefits programs, which currently include health care benefits; (2) retirement benefits; (3) the amount of paid days off (paid sick leave, parental leave, paid time off, or vacation benefits); (4) any other tax-reportable benefits.