Scribe
Director, Editorial & Founder Brand
San Francisco · Exec · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$250kDetected 74 days ago
Strategic CommunicationsLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This is a career-defining opportunity for someone who sits at the intersection of three disciplines: editorial, communications, and brand.
- You'll be the connection point between what our product is doing, what our founders are saying, and how the company is perceived in the market.
- You won't wait to be handed a narrative.
Responsibilities
- Market perception: Own how Scribe is perceived by our core audiences: enterprise buyers, investors, and top talent. You'll shape the narrative, track how it's landing, continually refine it.
- PR & agency management: Own Scribe's external communications strategy and manage our PR agency relationship.
- You set the narrative, define the audience, and build a systematic approach to news jacking, so we're never leaving a relevant moment on the table.
- Crisis response playbooks: Develop and maintain playbooks for how Scribe responds to reputational moments, news cycles, and potential crises.
- Founder brand: Partner closely with our CEO to scale her platform as a founder and thought leader, developing ideas, drafting and editing posts, and helping her show up consistently and authentically across LinkedIn, X, and media appearances.
- Scribe thought leadership: Ensure every public appearance (on stage, in front of a camera, or in the press) reflects the brand we're building and advances the story we're telling in the market.
- You likely have a creative outlet of your own, like a Substack, a social following, or a body of ghost-written or longform work.
- Own Scribe's external communications strategy and manage our PR agency relationship.
Requirements
- With 6-8+ years of professional experience spanning editorial, communications, and/or brand.
- An editorial sensibility with the ability to assess the fidelity of a story, know when there's a "there there," and get it to the right level of substance before it goes anywhere
- You have a sharp editorial sense and generate ideas that feel fresh to what's new and now, across AI, tech, and the broader cultural conversation.
- You have a strong POV and come to the table saying "here's the story I think we should tell, here's why, and here's how." With external stories, you find the angle and know what's worth publishing.
- With internal ones, you know when something will land and can translate it across functions.
- You have deep cultural fluency and sharp instincts for timing.
- You live at the center of the AI zeitgeist and VC X chatter, and you know when a moment is an opportunity, and how to move fast enough to capitalize on it.
- You know not every stage is worth the time, and you'll have a clear framework for determining which ones are.
- Education: BA/BS degree
- With 6-8+ years of professional experience spanning editorial, communications, and/or brand. You've done enough of both to know how they inform each other. We care more about the quality of your instincts than the linearity of your path. A journalism background that moved into marketing is just as interesting to us as a traditional comms path
- Exceptional writer across formats and audiences. You can move fluently between strategic thinking and hands-on writing, and are comfortable producing polished work yourself (a press release, a LinkedIn or X post, a founder talking points doc, compelling long-form thought leadership articles, or a crisis statement)
- A clear framework for measuring communications impact beyond vanity metrics, and experience developing a strong distribution strategy
- Comfortable working directly with founders to develop and refine their public voice
- Deep understanding of what moves enterprise buyers, investors, and top talent, and how to craft a story that reaches each one differently
- Startup experience. You've operated with lean resources and made it work
- Nice to have
- Exposure to analyst relations. You understand what that audience needs and how to speak to it
- A background in writing, literature, or history. We take good writing seriously here
Nice to have
- Experience at a high-growth tech company through a significant inflection point (fundraise, IPO, major product launch)
- Exposure to analyst relations.
- You understand what that audience needs and how to speak to it
- A background in writing, literature, or history.
- We take good writing seriously here
- Some of the nicest and smartest teammates you'll ever work with
- Competitive salaries
- Working from SF office 3x days/week
Skills
- Communications
Compensation
- $210k-$250k
Company info
- Scribe https://scribehow.com/ is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers.
- More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to document and scale how work gets done.
- Our Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams and agents do their best work.
- We're growing fast - since our founding in 2019, we've grown to over 6 million users across 600,000 businesses.
- Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors.
- Join us in our mission to uplevel how people do work.
- We aim to be the place where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers and we have intentionally built a team of the kindest, smartest people you'll ever meet.
- Accelerate impact
- Raise the bar
- Make our users heroes
- Clear is kind
- Rapid learning machine
- One team one dream
- Our values are core to who we are and shape who joins us on our mission:
This listing is sourced directly from Scribe's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.