Head of PR & External Communications

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
200K-250K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Consumer Web • Wearables
The best immersive voice keyboard — 5x faster than typing
The Role
Lead and build the end-to-end communications function for an AI-native company: develop narrative and message architecture, run media and social strategy, shape executive voice, embed comms in product and investor launches, manage issues and competitive intelligence, leverage AI to optimize PR workflows, and hire and scale a communications team.
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About Wispr

Wispr Flow is making it as effortless to interact with your devices as talking to a close friend.

Today, Wispr Flow is the first voice dictation platform people use more than their keyboards — because it understands you perfectly on the first try. It’s context-aware, personalized, and works anywhere you can type, on desktop or phone.

In 2026, in addition to dictation, we're focused on building native actions — an agentic framework that understands you, and works reliably.

We’re a team of AI researchers, designers, growth experts, and engineers rethinking human-computer interaction from the ground up. We value high-agency teammates who communicate openly, obsess over users, and sweat the details. We thrive on spirited debate, truth-seeking, and real-world impact.

We're grown our revenue +150% every quarter for the last 4 quarters, and have raised $81M from Tier 1 VC firms and other well-known angels.

The Role

This is a communications architecture role, building, not just managing. The foundational disciplines, narrative development, relationship building, message architecture, media strategy, are table stakes. What we are hiring for is someone who can build the model that AI-native companies aspire to, and that does not yet fully exist.

The old playbook, press releases, managed spokesperson quotes, quarterly media cycles, was designed for a world where information moved slowly and trust was conferred by institutions. That model does not work here. We are looking for someone who knows that and has a point of view on what replaces it.

You will operate as a senior strategic partner, and own the communications function end-to-end: narrative, press, executive voice, owned content, cross-functional alignment, and issues management. You will build the team and the system as the company scales.

What You Will Own
  • Corporate narrative and positioning: message architecture, audience-specific narrative tracks, and the discipline to hold consistency across a fast-moving company

  • The communications system: editorial calendar, media strategy, agency management, and performance measurement

  • Maximizing for positive reach and positioning across the press and media channels we care about most

  • Executive communications: building a durable CEO voice across socials, podcasts, speaking, and long-form writing, as a repeatable system rooted in genuine conviction

  • Audience translation: distinct narrative tracks for developers, consumers, enterprise buyers, press, and recruits, each tuned in depth and frame of reference without diluting the substance

  • Understanding and building a targeted relationship with emerging media: podcasts, newsletters, streaming shows, creators that blur the lines between influencers and media.

  • Leverage automations to improve conventional PR workflows, reporting, dashboards, coverage tracking, competitive intelligence, etc.

  • Cross-functional partnership: embedded communications input in product launches, investor narrative, and partnership strategy

  • Competitive intelligence: a standing practice that informs narrative planning and keeps Wispr Flow ahead of the category conversation

  • Reputation and issues management: proactive scenario planning, rapid response, and the judgment to make the right call under pressure

What We Are Looking For
  • 10 or more years of communications experience, with meaningful time building programs and teams at high-growth technology companies

  • Range across narrative craft and distribution mechanics: you write well, you think in systems, and you do not outsource either

  • Demonstrated ability to translate technical complexity across multiple distinct audiences without losing substance for any of them

  • Business and financial fluency: you understand how positioning, growth narrative, and investor perception connect to communications strategy

  • Strong media relationships built on trust over time and a proactive news sense

  • Proven issues management judgment: you have handled something that mattered, under pressure, and made the right call

  • High agency, low ego: you ship, you give direct feedback, you are accountable for outcomes not outputs

  • AI-native in practice.

Why This Moment

The companies that get communications right in this new world will not just have better press coverage. They will have built something more durable: a public understanding of what they are doing and why it matters that survives scrutiny, competitive noise, and the narrative chaos of a category being defined in real time.

We are not looking for someone to manage the story we already have. We are looking for someone to build the model. If that is the problem you want to work on, we want to hear from you.

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

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Skills Required

  • 10 or more years of communications experience at high-growth technology companies
  • Proven experience building communications programs and leading teams
  • Strong narrative craft and distribution mechanics; excellent writing and systems thinking
  • Ability to translate technical complexity across multiple distinct audiences (developers, consumers, enterprise, press, recruits)
  • Business and financial fluency linking positioning to investor perception and growth narrative
  • Established media relationships and proactive news sense
  • Proven issues and reputation management experience under pressure
  • AI-native in practice: regular use of AI tools to improve PR workflows while maintaining editorial standards
  • High agency, low ego; accountable for outcomes and able to give direct feedback
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The Company
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
49 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Founded in 2021, Wispr is building a more natural interface to interact with technology and bring it to every human on the planet. Wispr is a frontier-tech consumer electronics company building neural interfaces. Wispr is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised $14.6M to date.

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