Senior Manager of Communications, Character.ai
$150-300k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
AI natural language chatbot
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AI natural language chatbot
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-300k
+ Equity
Office located in Menlo Park, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone with Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in communications roles
- Experience as an on the record spokesperson
- Strong understanding of the communications ecosystem and the importance of an integrated communications approach to storytelling
- Demonstrated skills at building relationships with reporters and editors
- Demonstrated ability to develop and execute crisis communication plans
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional stakeholders to shape communications narratives and support public announcements
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to cross-functional teams and stakeholders
- You are proactive and have a “get things done” mindset
- You operate with a sense of urgency
- You’re willing to tackle new challenges and new responsibilities as the company grows
- You have a passion for AI experiences, and the role emerging technologies play in our society
What the job involves
- We are seeking a creative and strategic Senior Manager of Communications
- You’ll be a key hire on our fast-moving Comms team where you’ll support driving robust external coverage and mindshare for Character.AI through owned and earned media; help to strategically position the company on important topics like trust and safety and our deep technical expertise; and partner effectively with teams like Product and Marketing to drive product adoption and growth
- You will report to the Head of Communications
- Manage complex communications issues impacting multiple audiences, working closely with cross functional partners to ensure consistent and compelling communications
- Refine and execute against an owned media plan with the goal of using our channels to strategically position Character.AI on a range of issue areas
- Support near-term external comms needs including corporate announcements and consumer launches
- Explore and develop new thought leadership opportunities for our executives and prepare them for interviews, conferences, keynotes, etc
- Support product launches with sophisticated comms campaigns anchored in customer-led narratives, proof points, and data
- Work cross-functionally with marketing, product, legal, and other teams to ensure consistent and effective messaging
Our take
Search engines have long been a boon to productivity, but a long period of heavy advertising, content and SEO spam and malicious actors have limited the effectiveness of traditional keyword searching. Recently, conversational AI assistants have arrived, allowing non-specialists to navigate an increasingly difficult sea of data and return with relevant information, presented in a usable and sometimes very entertaining way.
Character.ai is one of the more recent entries in this increasingly crowded field that has only grown more heated since the public release of ChatGPT in late 2022. However, compared to Microsoft and OpenAI's offerings, Character.ai stands out with a more playful personality - its bots can mimic the voices of celebrities, historical persons and popular characters. This has led to users spending vastly more time interacting with Character.ai's bots compared to the competition: nearly three times longer on average than with ChatGPT, for instance.
Following a period of rapid user growth, Character.ai closed a major funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion. While it is currently enjoying meteoric success, in the longer term, Character.ai's challenge is to develop a funding model that will give it the staying power it will need to compete against OpenAI and other major firms in the market. A solution it is currently exploring is research-based partnerships with large companies such as Musk's xAI and Meta.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Mar 2023
$150m
SERIES A
Total funding: $150m
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
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Leadership
Noam Shazeer
(CEO)Previously worked at Google for almost 20 years as a Software Engineer then Principal Software Engineer.
Daniel De Freitas
(President)Before co-founding Character.ai was a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Google. Prior to that, they were a Software Engineer at Microsoft.
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