Executive Communications Manager

Perplexity Perplexity · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Communications

Seeking a Senior Manager, Executive Communications to partner with leadership, architect and amplify executive voices, and inspire a rapidly growing team. This role involves creating strategic executive communications, managing information flow during high-growth phases, developing executive voice, synthesizing complex AI-related topics and business strategies into clear narratives, and leading change management communications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create exceptional and strategic executive communications, including stage speeches, leadership emails, board decks, and other formats that require excellent writing and critical thinking to articulate the company vision and strategy.
  2. Lead Perplexity's next phases of growth, managing complex information flow during high-growth, evolving and owning all-hands presentations, Slack communications, and more.
  3. Develop a unique and authentic voice for our executives and company leaders internally and externally.
  4. Synthesize complex AI-related topics and business strategies into clear narratives internally and externally.
  5. Partner closely with all teams to lead change management communications, translating complex organizational updates into simple and compelling messages.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in executive communications
  • Proven track record of supporting senior executives
  • managing complex change management initiatives
  • World-class writing, editing, and storytelling skills
  • Attention to detail
  • ability to execute quickly in a fast-paced environment
  • Extreme comfort working with senior executives
  • principled confrontation
  • inspiring audiences in multiple formats and contexts

Nice to have

  • ideally within a high-growth technology company or leading communication agency
  • Deep familiarity with the rules with an interest in breaking them

What the JD emphasized

  • world-class communications function from 0 to 1
  • complex information flow
  • complex change management initiatives
  • World-class writing, editing, and storytelling skills
  • synthesize complex AI-related topics