Head of Narratives

The role

The Head of Narratives will own how LangChain shows up in the world across communications, brand, social, and design. This player-coach role involves setting narrative direction and leading a team across brand, social, and design to build an audience.

What you will do

• Define themes and narratives and translate them into a rolling communications strategy.
• Own press and media relations and manage relationships with journalists.
• Shape executive visibility and thought leadership.
• Lead announcement strategy for major launches, funding, and partnerships.
• Set and uphold the communications standard and voice.
• Shape brand direction in partnership with the brand lead.
• Partner with the social lead on strategy, themes, and goals.
• Shape the rich media approach including video and audio.
• Lead creative direction for brand design in partnership with the brand designer.
• Lead the team by giving feedback and establishing operating rhythms.

Required qualifications

• Ability to work like a media company operator.
• Player-coach with experience leading creative, comms, or content teams.
• Strong narrative instincts.
• Analytically grounded.
• Developer audience instincts.
• Collaborative and clear.

Nice to have

• Experience leading narrative, brand, or comms teams at a developer-focused company
• Background in technical or developer marketing
• Familiarity with the AI/ML ecosystem and the tools developers use to build
• Track record running brand campaigns, including out-of-home or awareness programs

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Flexible vacation
• 401(k) plan
• Meals on in-office days in the US
• Base salary
• Variable compensation for relevant roles
• Meaningful equity

About the company

LangChain builds the foundation for agent engineering, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents. The platform includes LangSmith, open-source frameworks, and the LangSmith Engine.