Shield AI is seeking an Internal Communications Manager to lead communications for enterprise priorities, organizational change, and ongoing employee communications. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Internal Communications, this hands-on role will develop and execute communication plans that help employees understand company priorities, changes affecting their work, and the actions they need to take. The ideal candidate is an exceptional writer, editor, project manager, and communications partner who can manage multiple workstreams, anticipate employee questions, and bring structure and high judgment to a fast-moving environment.
What you'll do:
- Plan and deliver communications for assigned change initiatives, including Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and integration activity, organizational changes, and People programs.
- Write and edit employee communications across channels, including announcements, FAQs, talking points, manager toolkits, presentations, intranet news, and Teams communications.
- Turn complex or incomplete information into clear communications that explain what is changing and anticipate questions, concerns, and points of confusion.
- Manage communications plans, calendars, project trackers, reviews, approvals, and delivery timelines across multiple projects.
- Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to align messaging, timing, audiences, and delivery channels.
- Support leadership communications as assigned, including company meetings, leadership updates, talking points, presentations, and announcements.
- Flag communications risks and employee-impacts early; recommend solutions and escalate issues as appropriate.
- Gather and synthesize employee feedback and sentiment to inform message refinement.
Required qualifications:
- 5–7 years of experience in internal, change, or corporate communications, or a related field.
- Excellent writing, copy-editing, and presentation-development skills, with close attention to detail.
- Experience developing communications for acquisitions, integrations, organizational change, technology transformation, People programs, or other large-scale business changes.
- Demonstrated experience managing communications plans, timelines, stakeholders, reviews, and deliverables across multiple projects.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential or sensitive information.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and presenting communications plans, recommendations, or materials to executive audiences.
- Experience developing employee communications that explain change clearly, answer expected questions, and build trust through transparency.
- Experience with Microsoft 365, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint, plus collaboration or project-management tools.
- Experience working in a high-growth technology, aerospace, defense, or other complex and regulated environment.
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of experience in internal, change, or corporate communications, or a related field
- Excellent writing, copy-editing, and presentation-development skills with close attention to detail
- Experience developing communications for acquisitions, integrations, organizational change, technology transformation, People programs, or other large-scale business changes
- Experience managing communications plans, timelines, stakeholders, reviews, and deliverables across multiple projects
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Sound judgment and discretion when handling confidential or sensitive information
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and presenting communications plans, recommendations, or materials to executive audiences
- Experience developing employee communications that explain change clearly, answer expected questions, and build trust through transparency
- Experience with Microsoft 365, including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint, plus collaboration or project-management tools
- Experience working in a high-growth technology, aerospace, defense, or other complex and regulated environment
What the Team is Saying
Shield AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as excellent, with dental/vision and mental‑health support, and ancillary protections like life and disability appearing in benefit summaries. The breadth and perceived affordability of coverage are highlighted as a standout component of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is featured alongside enhanced maternity benefits, fertility and childcare support, and onsite resources such as a Mother’s Room. These elements are positioned as competitive and above the minimal baseline for the company’s stage.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is granted to all full‑time hires, with RSUs, double‑trigger tax timing, and tools to model scenarios (e.g., through Carta Tax). Communications also reference a transition from options to RSUs, reinforcing access and maturity of ownership programs.
Shield AI Insights
What We Do
At Shield AI, you won't wait years to see your work reach the field. You'll build hardware and software that operates in the real world right now, in the hands of the people who depend on it. Hivemind, our AI pilot, has been flying since 2018. It has flown more than 30 platforms, including an F-16, and it now sits under a U.S. Air Force production contract for Collaborative Combat Aircraft. When you write code or shape a system here, you contribute to technology with a proven flight record and a clear production future. V-BAT flies intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions with an operational record that stretches from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific. It delivers eyes where they matter most, in the most demanding conditions on earth. The teams behind it watch their work get tested where the stakes are real. X-BAT takes its first flight this year. It's an AI-piloted fighter that needs no runway, built to operate where traditional aircraft can't. Join now and you help shape a program at its earliest, most formative stage. That's the kind of ground-floor work that defines a career. Do the most impactful work of your life, on problems that matter. Autonomy at this level asks a lot of you. You'll take on problems in perception, planning, and control that few teams anywhere are equipped to solve. You'll work across disciplines, from aerospace and robotics to machine learning and systems engineering, alongside people who hold themselves to an exacting standard and expect the same from you. Our mission is clear: protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems. That purpose runs through every decision, every design review, and every deployment. It's why the work here carries a weight you can feel. Ready to join our mission? Explore our open roles and find where you fit.
Why Work With Us
Founded in 2015 by a former Navy SEAL, Shield AI builds AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft. Veterans aren't an afterthought here, they're at every level. It's why the work carries weight: AI pilots and uncrewed aircraft flying real missions, from Ukraine to the Indo-Pacific, protecting service members and civilians.
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