Vice President of Communications

Build Deploy and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As the VP of Communications at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to help tell our story to our markets our partners and our customers. Youll be working to build out more focused product marketing as well as supporting our growing company presence and talent acquisition. Youll be empowered to both craft and implement integrated marketing communications strategies to support a rapidly scaling business. Youll help build the marketing and communications team and create an organization that will provide direct support to the sales and product teams. Youll be working with a talented passionate group of people that shares a goal to make AI worktoday and in the future. Youll lead the charge to communicate our vision with the world in a manner that is clear and digestible without sacrificing technical precision.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Building an integrated marketing and communications strategy and team for a leading-edge AI firm that rapidly builds deploys and maintains AI models in a dynamic world
• Building compelling digital and print content and strategies to support entry into new markets
• Collaborating with internal teams to support product releases
• Leading the companys media relations and thought-leadership initiatives to propel brand awareness and credibility across the industry
• Managing external public relations and/or advertising agency service providers to ensure seamless effective external communications and one-voice campaigns

This position offers a hybrid/on-site environment at our office in northwest Austin TX; fully remote candidates who live in the immediate vicinity of Washington DC may also be considered.

The Right Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what were looking for:

• 10 years of marketing and communications experience 4 of those being in a strategic leadership position; experience working with or in a public relations or advertising agency especially focused on the technology sector is highly desirable
• Excellence in developing and implementing marketing campaigns for a rapidly scaling business
• Experience launching software into new markets through campaign development and contentwith both individual and team contributions
• Demonstrated success in building and leading teams
• Demonstrated success and passion for supporting the professional development of your team members with a lead-by-doing approach
• Passion for understanding our customers and users and the ability to abstract that into a useful persona
• A data-enabled mindset that is thoughtful around testing measuring and validating ideas
• Excellent verbal and written communication for wide-ranging productsfrom news releases corporate websites and social media content to printed collateral and video packages; experience in video production and corporate design is highly desirable
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must be a US person (a US citizen a US national or a Green Card holder)

The Wish List

Were very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Experience marketing AI or machine learning-related products
• Technical writing experience
• Experience within highly regulated industries (i.e. healthcare finance national security etc.)
• Experience with common CRM platforms

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $180000$230000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.