Director of Communications
Handshake
About Handshake Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions. In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We've grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month. Why join Handshake now:
- Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
- Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world's top educational institutions
- Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
- Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
- Own Handshake's corporate communications strategy and help sharpen our external narrative across company, Careers, EDU, AI, and future-of-work themes.
- Build and manage press relationships within the workforce and AI Industries.
- Proactively pitch stories, announcements, data insights, and thought leadership that build Handshake's brand and support business priorities.
- Partner closely with the CEO/co-founder and leadership team to develop executive narratives, media opportunities, speeches, op-eds, and talking points.
- Partner with the social team on Handshake's corporate LinkedIn presence, providing strategic guidance, content review, approvals, and counsel on voice, tone, messaging, and brand alignment.
- Prepare executives for high-visibility speaking engagements, media interviews, panels, podcasts, and industry events, including narrative development, talking points, briefing materials, Q&A prep, and message coaching.
- Lead reactive and issues communications, partnering with legal, policy, people, product, and leadership teams on sensitive or high-stakes moments.
- Build scalable communications processes for press intake, approvals, messaging, executive prep, launches, and reporting.
- Oversee external communications agency partners and ensure their work is focused, high-quality, and aligned with company priorities.
- 7+ years corporate communications, public relations, executive communications, or media relations, ideally in high-growth tech or a top communications agency.
- Strong executive communications experience, including partnering with founders, CEOs, or senior leaders on external narrative, media strategy, and thought leadership.
- Proven ability to build press relationships and secure meaningful earned media coverage across business, technology, workplace, education, or AI press.
- Excellent writing and messaging skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, compelling narratives.
- Strong judgment under pressure, especially in reactive, sensitive, or ambiguous communications moments.
- Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on, from setting the communications strategy to drafting statements, pitches, briefs, and social content.
- Experience managing external communications agencies or consultants.
- Comfort working cross-functionally with leadership, marketing, product, legal, policy, people, and sales teams.
- Bonus: experience with AI, future of work, labor markets, education, marketplaces, HR tech, or enterprise technology.
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