Media Relations Lead

Responsibilities

• Own media relationships at the local, state, and national levels, giving backgrounds and coordinating on-the-record comments so Fluidstack's story is told accurately to the right audience at the right time.
• Partner with external PR firms across sites and states, briefing them and directing their work so company interests are represented and internal teams are fully supported.
• Run the local announcement playbook end to end for each new site: press releases, local media tours, open houses, and milestone moments from permits locked to ribbon cutting.
• Build briefing materials, Q&A, and prep for every spokesperson moment, from a county open house to a founder's national interview.
• Field and triage inbound press across a multi-state portfolio, knowing when to engage, when to background, and when silence is the strategic answer.

Requirements

• You've worked inside a PR agency and on the client side directing one, so you know how to brief a firm, push its work to the standard, and get full value from a retainer.
• You've run press in political or government settings where a single wrong quote carries real consequences, and your judgment on when not to engage is as sharp as your pitch.
• You've told the story of physical infrastructure at scale (data centers, energy, utilities, or large capital projects) to audiences ranging from skeptical locals to national reporters.
• You've created press events from scratch: announcements, open houses, site tours, ribbon cuttings, and the media moments that turn a milestone into coverage.
• You carry working relationships across all three altitudes of media, from the county weekly to the statehouse press corps to national desks, and you know which story belongs where.
• You write fast and clean under deadline: releases, statements, talking points, and backgrounders that need no second pass.

Preferred

• Hyperscale or data center industry coverage knowledge.
• Crisis and issues communications.
• Political campaign or statehouse press experience.
• Spanish-language media fluency.