Vice President of Communications

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 aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable, adaptable, and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed, scale as workloads grow, and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands, increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident, data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

As the VP of Communications at Striveworks, you’ll be challenged—and trusted—on day one to help tell our story to our markets, our partners, and our customers. You’ll be working to build out more focused product marketing, as well as supporting our growing company presence and talent acquisition. You’ll be empowered to both craft and implement integrated marketing communications strategies to support a rapidly scaling business. You’ll help build the marketing and communications team and create an organization that will provide direct support to the sales and product teams. You’ll be working with a talented, passionate group of people that shares a goal to make AI work—today and in the future. You’ll 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 company’s 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. 

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.

Here’s what we’re 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 content—with 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 products—from 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)

We’re 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 $180,000–$230,000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary, equity grants, and cash bonuses.