Agency:
FleishmanHillard

Job Function:
Consulting

Job Subfunction:
Business and Change Consulting

Job Description:

Overview

The San Francisco office has an immediate opening for a Vice President to join us in a hybrid role in our rapidly expanding technology advisory practice. This position is ideal for a strategic advisor and big-picture thinker who is energized by helping enterprise technology companies differentiate not just through AI and product hype, but through authentic storytelling that builds belief with the full constellation of stakeholders that matter: investors, employees, policymakers, talent markets, and society.

This is a job for someone who understands the critical gap in how tech companies operate today-they have masterfully built go-to-market strategies for enterprise buyers while not neglecting the harder strategic work of bringing other stakeholders along on a coherent narrative about what their innovations mean and why it matters. This role will help reposition clients as strategic leaders rather than product vendors, by developing and executing media-first but not media-only communications programs. This is advisory work more than a traditional "tech PR" role. The right candidate will help redefine how tech companies lead in today's AI era when technical capability alone no longer builds belief.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic advisor to senior product and corporate clients at global technology companies, helping them determine the right communications strategy to build stakeholder confidence, differentiate competitively, and execute business strategy with less friction.
• Build and maintain media relationships that deliver value to clients. Focus on proactive storytelling, in addition to executing against key business and product milestones. AI storytelling experience a must.
• Work with senior members of the technology practice to develop integrated strategic positioning that goes beyond product messaging to build authentic corporate narratives that bring investors, employees, policymakers, and society along on a coherent story about what the company stands for and why it matters.
• Create deep day-to-day client relationships where you challenge assumptions, synthesize market intelligence and stakeholder research, and guide the client to the right strategies that build belief rather than just awareness. That said, we believe good consultants also choose their battles and must work to make the client's final strategy successful even if that is different than our recommendation.
• Develop strategic messaging frameworks and storytelling and pitch angles that translate complex technical innovation into clear, differentiated positioning for multiple stakeholder audiences-helping clients own the "why" behind their strategy and communicate it with integrity and clarity.
• Work across integrated teams to recommend multi-channel solutions-traditional PR, digital, social media, investor relations, employee communications, and more-that align behind a cohesive strategic narrative rather than operating as disconnected tactics.
• Review market trends and competitive dynamics to identify strategic positioning opportunities; help clients understand where they have permission to lead and where stakeholder friction will emerge, proactively shaping communications strategy to smooth resistance before it hardens.
• Generate incremental business by taking a strategic view of the entire stakeholder landscape and recommending how integrated communications can unlock business objectives-from M&A execution to talent acquisition to investor confidence to regulatory navigation.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience, and agency experience, with broad technology and business understanding with strong analytical abilities and critical, creative thinking.
• Genuine passion for pitching media and building deep, mutually beneficial relationships with journalists in traditional and new media. A proven track record of developing strong connections with journalists across AI storytelling, enterprise tech, consumer tech, and/or business media, and consistently landing stories that matter. Loving the craft of media relations and understanding how to work directly with reporters to shape narratives that drive results.
• Experience across all dimensions of modern communications. While this is a media-first role, FH is a modern communications agency that believes what it takes to win goes beyond the headlines. Experience creating and running communications campaigns that drive to a consistent takeaway, anchored in an audience-first mindset, and creating a consistent presence (not just moving from product launch to product launch) across owned, earned, social, influencer and paid amplification.
• Ability to leverage data and research to drive strategic decisions. Work collaboratively with FleishmanHillard's research, insights, and intelligence colleagues at True Global Intelligence to access and interpret data, trends, and metrics that inform client strategy. Fluent in reading research, asking the right questions of data teams, and using insights to counsel clients on strategic positioning, stakeholder engagement priorities, and communications investment, ensuring every recommendation is grounded in evidence rather than assumption.
• Polished and clear communications, both in writing and speaking, from day-to-day client email to strategic plans, blogs, executive talking points and bylined articles to hosting client meetings, pitching new ideas, and winning the room with clients and potential clients.
• Good leadership skills, including project management and giving team member's directions and feedback. This includes coordinating multiple work streams, managing more junior team members, and maintaining quality and composure under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Energetic self-starter and resourceful problem solver. Tend to the client's ambition and potential as much as the day-to-day delivery of asks.

FleishmanHillard offers a hybrid work model, and seeks employees who are comfortable working in the office for a portion of their workweek. We value the collaboration and camaraderie that in-person interactions provide, but also understand the importance of flexibility and balance in our employees' lives. As such, we are open to discuss various work arrangements that accommodate individual needs and circumstances, including flexible scheduling and alternative work arrangements. Our goal is to foster a productive and inclusive work environment where all employees can thrive, both in and out of the office.

The anticipated salary range for the Vice President level is $77,000- $175,000.

Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off and/or other benefits also are available.

$77,000-175,000

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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