Description
At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.
Podium is building the operating system for local business in the age of AI, and we need the world to know it. We're hiring our first Director of Communications to own our external communications strategy and build a founder-led comms function from the ground up.
What You'll Own
- Build the motion. Own the strategy end to end: how we reach our audiences and the channels we use, the cadence that keeps us in the conversation, what each audience needs to believe, and the internal processes that let us produce the right content.
- Develop founder thought leadership that makes Podium the category-defining voice in applied AI.
- Develop recurring content programs around key launch moments, performance milestones, and customer ROI stories, plus technical deep dives with our EPD org that show Podium building on the bleeding edge.
- Stand up the AI-native workflows that let a lean team produce like a big one: capturing raw material at scale (meetings, customer calls, product reviews) and turning it into a steady stream of near-publishable content suggestions.
- Scale Eric's social presence quickly. Own the strategy to grow reach and engagement on X and LinkedIn.
- Secure Eric on a hit list of strike-zone media, focused on podcasts where he can tell our story.
- Develop an incredible understanding of Eric's voice: what he cares about and how he'd want to talk about it.
- Build the measurement methodology and milestones. Tie the work to mindshare, inbound, deal credibility, and pipeline, and iterate.
- Own our reputation where buyers check it. Hold a 4.5+ rating, monitored weekly, across all ten review platforms.
- Own how Podium shows up in the community. Cultivate a network of Podium champions to help amplify and distribute our founder content.
Candidate Profile Must Haves
- Experience running comms, brand, or founder content at a high-growth tech, AI, or consumer company.
- Exceptional writer and storyteller who can capture and scale a founder's voice.
- Extreme ownership and high velocity.
- Media instincts and taste.
- Sharp strategic mind.
- Deep AI fluency.
- Stay obsessively current on trends in AI, SaaS, SMB, and the verticals Podium serves.
- Original thinking: You can originate a point of view on AI and local business that holds up on a keynote stage.
Benefits
- Work in Lehi, UT, 5 days a week
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k Plan
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
- A stellar HQ (Utah) gym with local professional coaches and classes offered
- Onsite HQ (Utah) child care center, subsidized for employees