Director, Technology Communications

Responsibilities

• Help lead communications strategy and execution across a portfolio of technology clients, taking on greater strategic and client leadership responsibility based on experience and performance.
• Develop and execute media relations strategies that translate client business and policy priorities into timely, credible stories for business, technology, policy, and trade media.
• Build and maintain relationships with reporters, editors, producers, podcast hosts, and other influential voices; identify news hooks and pursue opportunities with creativity, persistence, and sound editorial judgment.
• Lead communications around funding rounds, partnerships, product launches, executive milestones, policy developments, and other moments that can materially affect a company's trajectory.
• Build communications infrastructure for clients with limited internal capacity, including messaging, media materials, editorial calendars, workflows, and measurement.
• Counsel founders and C-suite executives, with increasing independence, on reputation management, market positioning, crisis preparedness, stakeholder engagement, and high-stakes communications moments.
• Develop integrated campaigns that connect earned media, executive positioning, thought leadership, digital channels, and public affairs to clients' business objectives.
• Collaborate across communications, government relations, public affairs, research, and digital strategy, and contribute to new-business research, proposals, and pitches.
• You will work closely with senior counselors while earning increasing authority over client relationships, strategy, and team leadership. The role offers exposure to founders, senior executives, policymakers, investors, and media working at the center of consequential technology debates.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of strategic communications and media relations experience, with level determined by the scope, independence, and leadership demonstrated; agency experience and work with technology or high-growth companies strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success developing media strategies, identifying strong stories, pitching reporters, and converting ideas into meaningful coverage and relationships.
• Strong media instincts and a genuine desire to deepen expertise in media relations, executive positioning, and issues management.
• Fluency in the pace and constraints of startups and other high-growth companies, with the resourcefulness to produce strong work with small teams and imperfect information.
• The ability to manage several client relationships and workstreams without losing command of details, deadlines, or strategic priorities.
• Existing relationships with technology, business, policy, national security, or trade media, combined with the initiative to build new relationships continuously.
• Exceptional intellectual curiosity and the ability to quickly master complex technologies, business models, and policy environments, then translate them into clear and compelling narratives.
• A strategic and creative problem-solver who anticipates client needs, generates original ideas, and finds another route when an obvious approach stalls.
• Strong judgment about how earned media, podcasts, newsletters, social channels, events, and emerging formats can work together to reach specific audiences.
• Proficiency with artificial intelligence tools and curiosity about how emerging capabilities can improve research, analysis, quality control, and client service.