PR and Communication

Viktor•San Francisco, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Viktor is an AI coworker that integrates with tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams to perform tasks for companies in finance, marketing, operations, and engineering. The company aims to replace a significant portion of the SaaS stack with a single AI teammate. The team is small, but the scope of the product is extensive. This role is for the first communications hire, responsible for building the entire communications function from scratch, including media relations, storytelling, and crisis management. The company is experiencing significant growth, with increasing paid spend, successful product demos, and growing market awareness. This is a critical moment for communications to shape the company's narrative as it expands, raises capital, and sells its product. The co-founders recognize the strategic importance of communications and are looking for someone to own the narrative, manage press relations, write extensively, handle difficult situations, build the company's public presence, and work closely with the co-founders to shape their public messaging.

Requirements

7+ years in communications, with at least 3 years leading PR at a high-growth startup or in-house at a tech company that punched above its weight.
Established relationships with reporters, not just a media list.
Excellent writing skills, with the ability to produce clean drafts quickly and provide constructive feedback to founders.
Founder mentality: ability to build a function from scratch, thrive in ambiguity, move fast, and problem-solve independently.
Willingness to travel for reporter meetings, conferences, and founder appearances.

Nice To Haves

Experience in AI, developer tools, or enterprise software, including knowledge of relevant beats and reporters.
Proven track record of taking a relatively unknown company to market prominence.
Experience working with founders who are the public voice and enjoying the process of shaping their messaging.

Responsibilities

Own the narrative: Define and articulate what the team stands for, what is being built, and why now.
Run press: Build relationships with reporters, place stories, and manage announcements for funding, hires, product launches, and customer wins.
Write extensively: Produce founder posts, customer stories, external memos, and announcements, shaping and protecting the company's voice.
Handle hard moments: Manage crises such as outages, mistakes, or negative press with calmness, speed, and honesty.
Build the surface area: Strategically engage in podcasts, conferences, op-eds, and co-founder appearances on relevant platforms.
Work with co-founders: Collaborate with Fryderyk and Peter to shape their public messaging and ensure their appearances are impactful.