Director of Communications & Brand

The role

The Director of Comms & Brand will build a founder-led, non-traditional communications function to strengthen the company brand. You will target strategic customers and investors through organic social, industry events, and podcasts.

What you will do

• Scale the founder-led social program on X and LinkedIn
• Set strategy for themes and cadence to compound an audience
• Stand up AI-native workflows to produce high volume content
• Run recurring content around launches, milestones, and customer ROI
• Define metrics and hit ambitious goals
• Learn the founder's voice to pitch angles and frame ideas
• Book the founder on podcasts and grow a champion network
• Own executive communications including keynotes and major announcements
• Drive narrative strategy and prep for the flagship enterprise conference
• Maximize impact on review and discovery sites

Required qualifications

• Track record in comms, brand, or founder content at a high-growth tech, AI, or consumer company
• Experience leading a team
• Exceptional writer and original thinker
• Social native immersed in AI, SaaS, and SMB conversation on X
• Stage experience writing keynotes and running content for a large event
• Creative taste directing design and content work
• Organized operator who can systematize work
• Extreme ownership and bias to action
• Deep AI fluency using AI heavily in work and building content workflows

Nice to have

• Founder-led experience

Benefits

• Open and transparent culture
• Life insurance
• Long and short-term disability coverage
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Generous vacation time
• Three 4-day summer holiday weekends
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 401k Plan
• Bi-annual swag drops with Podium gear and apparel
• HQ gym with local professional coaches and classes
• Onsite HQ child care center, subsidized for employees

About the company

Podium builds an AI Workforce that helps local businesses turn every conversation into revenue. They have crossed $150M in AI ARR and deployed more than 20,000 AI Employees.