Director, PR & Communications at Seekr | District of Columbia, USA

Seekr

Director, PR & Communications

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own a high-impact external comms function by shaping strategy, analyst relations, and executive thought leadership to position AI governance and trusted AI as category-defining in enterprise and federal markets.

Responsibilities: Lead PR strategy, calendar, analyst relations, executive programs, crisis and social, awards, and AI-enabled workflow.
Audience & outcomes: Align narratives across commercial, federal, product, and partner ecosystems to drive credibility, differentiation, and measurable influence with CIOs, CISOs, and government buyers.
Impact: Build proof via customer advocacy, media readiness, and AI-centric messaging that accelerates category leadership and market trust.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a comprehensive PR strategy to optimize the information environment for inclusion in synthesized answers, with a focus on consistency and credibility.
Build and run the integrated communications calendar across commercial, federal, product, executive, partner, and customer narratives. Coordinate with Technical Product Marketing on messaging consistency and with Demand Generation on multi-channel amplification.
Drive an analyst relations program that moves the needle on category positioning and differentiation. Land Seekr in the analyst conversations that matter to enterprise CDOs, CISOs, and federal program managers. Build the briefing rhythm, the inquiry calendar, and the narrative arc with Gartner, Forrester, IDC, CB Insights, and the federal-specific analysts.
Develop and execute executive thought leadership programs for the CEO, CTO, CMO, CRO and other senior leaders. Bylines, speaking engagements, podcast appearances, LinkedIn presence. Move executives from "have an opinion" to "have a category-defining position in market." Go boldly.
Manage agency relationships and hold agencies to a proactivity standard. Direct the work — don't manage their calendars.
Build and own customer advocacy programs in coordination with Sales and Customer Success — case studies, references, customer-led content, advocacy councils. Federal customers do not say yes easily; build the relationships and the proof together.
Run crisis communications and reactive media. Have the muscle to respond fast, accurately, and on-message.
Oversee social media strategy and the Social Media Manager. Social is the connective tissue between earned, owned, and paid; coordinate tightly with Demand Generation on integrated campaign social motions.
Apply for and win industry awards that build credibility with target audiences across commercial and federal markets.
Build and operate AI-accelerated workflows across the function — draft review against the messaging framework, agency briefing prep, analyst and journalist research, coverage analysis, sentiment monitoring, competitive PR scanning.

Requirements

12+ years in communications and PR, with at least three of those years in a senior comms role at an enterprise B2B technology company.
Demonstrated experience securing earned media in both commercial business press (WSJ, NYT, Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, Axios) and federal/government press (Federal News Network, Nextgov, MeriTalk, FCW, Defense One, Breaking Defense), required.
Strong analyst relations track record. You can name analysts in the AI, MLOps, data infrastructure, or AI governance spaces by their actual coverage, not by their LinkedIn titles.
Experience managing PR agencies and the muscle to push back when work is reactive rather than proactive.
A portfolio of executive narrative work — bylines you have shaped, speaking placements you have landed, thought leadership programs you have built.
Crisis communications experience.

Preferred

Active or eligible for U.S. security clearance, a plus but not required.
Experience in explainable AI, responsible AI, AI governance, or adjacent categories where trust and verifiability are first-class buyer concerns, a plus.
Demonstrated comfort with technical AI subject matter.

Benefits

Meaningful Mission & Impact - Work with a deeply talented, collaborative team solving some of the toughest AI challenges that matter.
Equity Ownership – RSUs that let you share directly in Seekr’s long‑term success and growth.
Time Off That Respects Real Life – Unlimited PTO plus 14 paid company holidays to truly recharge.
Work Your Way – A flexible hybrid work environment with offices in Reston, VA and Austin, TX, plus remote options and flexible working hours.
Competitive Total Rewards – A role‑appropriate compensation structure that supports long‑term growth, including base salary, bonuses, or commission plans depending on role.
401(k) with Company Match – Build your future with a retirement plan that includes employer matching.
Comprehensive Health & Wellness – Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage starting day one—for you and your family.
Parental Leave – Paid parental leave to support employees as they welcome a new child through birth, adoption, or foster placement.

Seekr

2.9 Glassdoor

Seekr delivers AI you can trust in mission-critical environments. As a privately held artificial intelligence company, we help government and critical infrastructure leaders make accurate, explainable decisions when the stakes are highest. From defense to telecom to finance, we power the systems society depends on. Build accurate, explainable AI securely with your data with SeekrFlowTM, our end-to-end platform with comprehensive content-scoring capabilities and a toolset to build domain-specific large language models and AI agents. By addressing bias, data integrity, and model complexity, we power informed, auditable decisions that drive real-world results. Our AI solutions are optimized for various enterprise and government use cases and run on all leading cloud and hardware providers. As a SOC 2 certified company, we provide you with full control to deploy on our cloud, your cloud, your data center, or at the Edge.

Founded in 2021

Reston, Virginia, USA

128 employees (11 in marketing)

www.seekr.com

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