AI & Innovation Communications Manager

We’re looking for an experienced communications professional to join our AI + Innovation Communications team. In this role, you'll help build trust in how AI tools can empower human creativity, partner cross-functionally to help mitigate AI-related reputational risks, and manage proactive and reactive media engagement and speaking opportunities.
You should have a strong understanding of the AI and/or professional content creation landscapes, be able to translate complex technical topics into clear narratives, and be comfortable working independently and collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across timezones.
You'll join a team that helps shape public understanding of how we use technologies like AI to inspire creativity, enable discovery, and keep people safe, through proactive communications and strategic counsel to cross-functional teams including product, legal, public policy and more.
Responsibilities:
- Help develop and evolve our AI narrative through messaging documents, newsroom posts, statements, Q&As, and spokesperson materials.
- Support the development of global communications campaigns that highlight the positive ways AI is supporting creators of all kinds.
- Drive proactive speaking and events strategies, including identifying opportunities prepping spokespeople, and drafting materials
- Pitch AI creativity stories to media proactively and handle reactive media inquiries.
- Provide strategic counsel to product teams working on AI-related projects still in development.
- Identify emerging areas of reputational risk and proactively shape strategies and messaging to address them.
Requirements:
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in communications, with direct experience engaging with journalists, prepping spokespeople, and staffing tier one events
- Strong track record of translating complex or technical concepts into compelling narratives for both expert and non-expert audiences
- Experience working with product, legal, and public policy teams to create impactful campaigns and minimize risk
- Experience staffing tier one events
- Strong analytical judgment, with the ability to assess reputational risk and advise accordingly
- Thrives in fast-paced environments, with a proactive and solutions-oriented mindset
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with, and telling stories about, creators or clients
- Strong familiarity with AI and/or the entertainment and content creation landscapes