Responsibilities

• Turn Apollo corporate narratives, milestones and data insights into compelling stories that earn attention with media, analysts, and customers.
• Develop high-impact content for external audiences including contributed bylines, data benchmark and survey reports, executive POVs, and other content to build thought leadership and brand awareness.
• Ensure narratives reinforce Apollo’s messaging and support its business strategy.
• Collaborate with Marketing on integrated campaigns, editorial planning and amplification.
• Drive product PR that highlights innovation, customer impact, and category leadership.
• Develop data-informed messaging and materials including press releases, messaging frameworks, briefing documents, FAQs, talking points, and reactive statements.
• Partner closely with Product, Product Marketing, Engineering, Legal to ensure clarity, accuracy, and consistency across all product communications.
• Support for sensitive comms (e.g., data topics, platform policies, incidents, and legal or regulatory matters) with strong judgment and executive-ready recommendations.
• Help enhance and operationalize Apollo’s analyst relations strategy, with a focus on influence, education, and long-term relationship building.
• Manage day-to-day engagement with key analysts including Gartner, Forrester, GZ Consulting, Info-Tech, and others.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in corporate communications (B2B tech, SaaS, AI, or GTM industry experience preferred).
• Strong track record of data storytelling and translating research into earned media and thought leadership.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, from crisp messaging to long-form content.
• Proven experience leading product launches, product PR, and simplifying complex technical narratives.
• Experience with media relations, analyst relations, crisis communications, AI/ML technology, and product communications.
• A builder’s mindset: comfortable in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving priorities.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills across Product, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and Exec teams.

Preferred

• A high-judgment communicator who can balance speed with quality and precision.
• A savvy storyteller with a strong instinct for trends and angles that resonate with the media.
• A strategic operator who enjoys a startup-speed environment and developing processes for efficiency.
• A detail-obsessed writer who values clarity, precision, and craft.
• A relationship builder who can partner with executives and cross-functional teams.
• Confident, collaborative, and comfortable owning big, visible workstreams.
• Savvy leveraging AI tools to accelerate PR impact.
• Bring ambition with humility: confident driver, exceptional collaborator.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
• A culture that values ownership, clarity, and speed.
• Additional benefits for this role may include: equity; company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; at least 10 paid holidays per year, flex PTO, and parental leave; employee assistance program and wellbeing benefits; global travel coverage; life/AD&D/STD/LTD insurance; FSA/HSA and medical, dental, and vision benefits.