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Podium is hiring its first Director of Founder Communications to build and own a founder-led external communications strategy from the ground up. The company has scaled to $100M+ in AI Agent ARR in under 24 months, serving 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics with AI employees that capture and convert leads 24/7.
This is a high-visibility, high-accountability role reporting to the founder (Eric). You will own the complete external communications strategy, targeting two priority audiences: strategic customers and investors. The goal is to establish Podium as the number-one authority in applied AI for local business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute the founder thought leadership strategy, turning the founder's POV into a steady stream of high-quality content published primarily on social and long-form essays
- Own the strategy end-to-end: audience targeting, channel selection, content cadence, and internal processes
- Scale the founder's social presence on X and LinkedIn, growing reach and engagement through strategic posting and conversation participation
- Develop recurring content programs around product launches, performance milestones, customer ROI stories, and technical deep dives
- Implement AI-native workflows to enable a lean team to produce at scale, capturing raw material from meetings and customer calls and converting it to publishable content
- Secure the founder on high-impact podcast appearances and media placements (focus on podcasts over traditional press)
- Cultivate a network of Podium champions—partners, industry influencers, investors—to amplify founder content
- Build deep understanding of the founder's voice, developing judgment to proactively suggest angles and frame ideas efficiently
- Establish measurement methodology tied to mindshare, inbound leads, deal credibility, and pipeline
You will be a builder and doer, not a manager of agencies. The approach is founder-led and direct, with the founder providing voice and conviction while you hone the story and build the infrastructure to deliver it consistently to the right audiences.
Required qualifications:
- Proven experience running comms, brand, or founder content at a high-growth tech, AI, or consumer company; founder-led experience strongly preferred
- Exceptional writing and storytelling ability; can capture and scale a founder's voice with sharp social hooks and strong long-form writing
- Extreme ownership mentality and high velocity; autonomously run the function, protect the CEO's time, and prioritize shipping great work quickly
- Strong media instincts and taste; understand what captures attention in the modern media ecosystem (podcasters, newsletter writers, creators)
- Strategic thinking; can reverse-engineer communications strategy from desired business outcomes rather than activity metrics
