Vice President - Technology Advisory

Adelphi Group•San Francisco, CA

2d•$77,000 - $175,000•Hybrid

About The Position

FleishmanHillard is seeking a Vice President to join its rapidly expanding technology advisory practice in the San Francisco office. This hybrid role is for a strategic advisor who can help enterprise technology companies differentiate through authentic storytelling that builds belief with stakeholders including investors, employees, policymakers, talent markets, and society. The role addresses the gap in how tech companies communicate their innovations and their broader meaning and importance. The candidate will help reposition clients as strategic leaders rather than just product vendors by developing and executing media-first, but not media-only, communications programs. This is an advisory role focused on redefining how tech companies lead in the AI era, where technical capability alone is insufficient to build belief.

Requirements

8-10+ years of experience, including agency experience, with broad technology and business understanding.
Strong analytical abilities and critical, creative thinking.
Genuine passion for pitching media and building deep, mutually beneficial relationships with journalists in traditional and new media.
Proven track record of developing strong connections with journalists across AI storytelling, enterprise tech, consumer tech, and/or business media, and consistently landing stories that matter.
Experience across all dimensions of modern communications, including creating and running communications campaigns that drive to a consistent takeaway, anchored in an audience-first mindset, and creating a consistent presence across owned, earned, social, influencer and paid amplification.
Ability to leverage data and research to drive strategic decisions, including accessing and interpreting data, trends, and metrics that inform client strategy.
Polished and clear communications, both in writing and speaking.
Good leadership skills, including project management and giving team member’s directions and feedback.
Energetic self-starter and resourceful problem solver.

Nice To Haves

AI storytelling experience a must.

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic advisor to senior product and corporate clients at global technology companies, helping them determine the right communications strategy to build stakeholder confidence, differentiate competitively, and execute business strategy with less friction.
Build and maintain media relationships that deliver value to clients, focusing on proactive storytelling and executing against key business and product milestones. AI storytelling experience is a must.
Work with senior members of the technology practice to develop integrated strategic positioning that goes beyond product messaging to build authentic corporate narratives that bring investors, employees, policymakers, and society along on a coherent story about what the company stands for and why it matters.
Create deep day-to-day client relationships where you challenge assumptions, synthesize market intelligence and stakeholder research, and guide the client to the right strategies that build belief rather than just awareness. Work to make the client’s final strategy successful even if it differs from recommendations.
Develop strategic messaging frameworks and storytelling and pitch angles that translate complex technical innovation into clear, differentiated positioning for multiple stakeholder audiences—helping clients own the "why" behind their strategy and communicate it with integrity and clarity.
Work across integrated teams to recommend multi-channel solutions—traditional PR, digital, social media, investor relations, employee communications, and more—that align behind a cohesive strategic narrative rather than operating as disconnected tactics.
Review market trends and competitive dynamics to identify strategic positioning opportunities; help clients understand where they have permission to lead and where stakeholder friction will emerge, proactively shaping communications strategy to smooth resistance before it hardens.
Generate incremental business by taking a strategic view of the entire stakeholder landscape and recommending how integrated communications can unlock business objectives—from M&A execution to talent acquisition to investor confidence to regulatory navigation.