Director of Founder Communications

At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers. In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business. Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2. Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.About the Role Podium is building the operating system for local businesses in the age of AI, and we need the world to know it. We're hiring our first Director of Communications to own our external communications strategy and build a founder-led comms function from the ground up. It's a brand new role, and one of the most unique comms jobs in tech right now. This is a high-visibility, high-accountability role that requires a candidate who exercises extreme ownership, thrives in ambiguity, and moves at startup speed. A builder and a doer, not a manager of agencies. We believe the best way to reach the people who matter is not traditional PR. The founder is the voice, the story goes direct, and we reverse engineer everything from the outcomes we want to drive, not activity for its own sake. You'll build the strategy that targets our two priority audiences, strategic customers and investors, and convinces them of one thing above all: Podium is the number one authority in AI for the industries we serve. This role is the connective tissue between Podium's story and the people who need to hear it. What You'll Own The function is founder-led and goes direct. Eric provides the voice and the conviction. You hone the story and build the infrastructure to carry it to the people who matter, consistently.  Build the motion. Own the strategy end to end: how we reach our audiences and the channels we use, the cadence that keeps us in the conversation, what each audience needs to believe, and the internal processes that let us produce the right content. Built backward from the outcomes we want. Develop founder thought leadership that makes Podium the category-defining voice in applied AI. Turn Eric's point of view at the intersection of local business and AI into a steady drumbeat of high-quality content, published primarily...