Requirements

• Location: Washington, DC
• Travel: Some travel possible
• 10+ years in communications, including senior leadership of earned media, executive thought leadership, and corporate narrative. Health tech, digital health, health data, or AI experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience building or repositioning a company's narrative, ideally including defining a new category.
• A track record of securing high-quality coverage across healthcare trade and business press as well as health, policy, and technology outlets. Existing reporter relationships are a strong plus.
• Experience developing a CEO's thought leadership platform and preparing executives for high-stakes media and speaking moments.
• An exceptional translator of data. You can take a regression table, a research report, or a behavioral finding and turn it into a headline, a pitch, or a post that is compelling and accurate.
• Rigorous about evidence. You instinctively check a statistic against its source, notice when a claim has drifted, and push back on anything that can't be supported.
• Experience with issues or crisis communications, ideally involving AI, data privacy, or sensitive health topics.
• Excellent writer and editor who can write in a consistent, mission-driven voice across press, executive, funder, and public-facing work.

Benefits

• What you’ll love about Surgo:
• A collaborative, mission-driven team
• Competitive salary and equity compensation
• 100% of premiums for a Platinum healthcare plan covered, for employees and dependents
• Unlimited PTO with 11 holidays
• 401(k) employer match
• 3 months paid parental leave
• Public Benefit Corporation with an impact mission
• Our hiring philosophy
• We hire for passion and core competencies.