Fathom Org

VP of Communications & External Affairs

San Francisco, USA · Vp · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$290k-$340kDetected 20 days ago

Strategic CommunicationsResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

Fathom is hiring a Vice President of Communications & External Affairs who will play a key role in strategically growing our brand and advancing our policy work.

Own the editorial calendar across Fathom and its initiatives, maintaining a consistent voice and a reliable publishing cadence.
Leadership & Team Management Build, manage, and develop Fathom's communications function, including hiring and mentoring staff as the team grows.
Own and steward the communications budget, allocating resources across earned media, content, events, and campaigns.
Source, contract, and manage external vendors and agencies (PR firms, designers, digital, polling partners), holding them to clear deliverables and budget.
Strategy & Messaging Develop and steward Fathom's overarching narrative and message architecture, keeping it coherent across legislation, coalition-building, and research even as the policy landscape shifts.
Craft talking points, briefing materials, and message frameworks for principals, partners, and coalition members.
Lead communications support for our coalition activities, coordinating messaging across member organizations and aligning it with Fathom's broader narrative.
Media Relations Build and maintain relationships with reporters and editors across technology, policy, and national political press.
Internal Communications Develop talking points for internal communications.

10+ years of experience in communications, media engagement, storytelling, or PR, ideally in the public sector and/or technology.

Role Overview Fathom is hiring a Vice President of Communications & External Affairs who will play a key role in strategically growing our brand and advancing our policy work.
This person will be responsible for messaging development, media relations, rapid response, and regular content generation and editing, including policy one-pagers and our Substack, the Architecture of Governance.
This role requires an understanding of AI, national and state policy conversations, and the ability to quickly understand new and sometimes complex concepts while maintaining a cohesive overarching narrative.
The ideal candidate will have a proven background in communications strategy, ideally in the tech and government spaces, a strong media network, and a hunger for promoting new and high-impact policies.
This is a senior role on the leadership team that reports to the CEO.
Shape longer-form pieces (reports, explainers, polling write-ups) that position Fathom as a credible, go-to authority on AI governance.

between $290,000-$340,000, depending on experience This is a full-time position with comprehensive benefits including; medical, dental, vision, 401K with match, and other employer-provided benefits.

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