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Salary: USD 180,000 - 210,000 / annual
Higgsfield AI, a fast-scaling generative AI company with $500M+ annual revenue run rate and 25M+ users worldwide, is seeking a Senior Public Relations Manager to lead corporate affairs and public policy communications.
You will shape Higgsfield's public narrative on responsible AI, creative rights, safety, and AI-powered video creation. This role reports directly to executive leadership and partners closely with Legal, Product, Trust & Safety, and enterprise teams to ensure public statements accurately reflect product capabilities and policies.
Key responsibilities include:
**Corporate Affairs & Policy Narrative:** Develop and articulate Higgsfield's public positions on responsible AI video, creative rights, consent, safety, and AI benefits for creators and businesses. Translate complex product and policy decisions into clear, defensible language for executives, press, policymakers, customers, and partners. Identify where the company has credible points of view and where additional evidence or operational work is needed before public statements.
**Sensitive Issues & Response Planning:** Lead external communications on issues involving likeness and celebrity use, copyright and training data, deceptive content, elections, child safety, moderation, privacy, and data handling. Prepare statements, FAQs, spokesperson briefs, and response plans proactively. Coordinate timely, accurate responses across Communications, Legal, Product, and Trust & Safety teams.
**Product & Policy Communications:** Partner with Legal, Product, Trust & Safety, and enterprise teams on changes to terms, safeguards, data practices, and product capabilities. Explain changes in ways that are accurate and understandable to customers and the public. Maintain consistency across Higgsfield's public materials on content moderation, creator rights, training, and enterprise data treatment.
**Stakeholder Engagement:** Build relationships with policy reporters, creator and entertainment groups, rights holders, civil society organizations, industry associations, and relevant policymakers. Bring external concerns and perspectives into internal discussions. Identify opportunities for constructive engagement on issues shaping AI-powered creativity.
**Executive Communications & Accountability:** Prepare executive remarks, interviews, briefings, panels, testimony, and private stakeholder meetings on policy issues. Help leadership communicate with clarity and credibility on sensitive topics. Surface gaps between public claims and product reality, then work with accountable teams to resolve them before making those claims.
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with expectations to work from the office three full days per week.
**Requirements:**
- 7–12 years of experience in corporate communications, public affairs, policy communications, or public relations
- Experience communicating on complex or sensitive issues in technology, AI, media, entertainment, or another closely regulated field
- Strong understanding of issues involving creative rights, content safety, privacy, and responsible AI
- Excellent judgment and ability to develop clear, defensible messaging under pressure
- Experience partnering with Legal, Product, policy, and executive teams
- Strong relationships with policy, technology, or business media and relevant external stakeholders
- Ability to challenge unsupported claims constructively and work across teams to strengthen them
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment
- Executive communications and issues management experience preferred
