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title: 'PR & Communications Lead at Hive'
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# PR & Communications Lead at Hive

- **Company:** Hive
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-07-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/hive/faa4821f-b850-4cad-b61a-c51c4e0df8e8

## Job description

## About Hive

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world's largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software applications powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, enabling breakthrough use cases across industries. Together, Hive’s solutions are transforming content moderation, brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.

Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. We have over 250 employees globally in our San Francisco, Seattle, and Delhi offices. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!

## The Role

Hive is looking for an experienced communications professional to build and lead the Public Relations and Communications function, reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the broader executive team. As the first hire dedicated to this function, you will drive our external narrative, manage strategic communications, and increase Hive’s visibility across media and industry conversations. This will be an individual contributor role to start, but we expect this person to grow the function, potentially managing agency relationships and/or additional internal team members over time.

## Responsibilities

- Define and execute Hive’s strategic communications roadmap, owning all external PR and communications efforts across media relations, press releases, thought leadership, and corporate messaging
- Proactively identify and secure earned media opportunities to elevate Hive’s brand, technology, and leadership team in top-tier publications and industry outlets
- Write and edit high-quality content across formats—including press releases, media statements, blog posts, and executive bylines—that clearly communicate Hive’s story and point of view
- Develop and maintain key media relationships across business, tech, and AI-focused outlets; serve as the primary point of contact for all media inquiries
- Collaborate closely with internal teams (product, legal, engineering, HR) to surface compelling stories and ensure accurate and consistent messaging
- Act as a strategic communications partner to internal stakeholders, advising on messaging and positioning for product launches, partnerships, events, and issues management
- Manage external communications around major company milestones such as product launches, partnerships, and funding announcements
- Monitor press coverage, industry trends, and competitor narratives to identify opportunities or risks, and share relevant insights with internal teams
- Support internal communications as needed, including executive messaging and all-hands updates
- Own communications reporting, including press activity tracking, share of voice, and impact metrics
- Adhere to policies, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience in public relations, corporate communications, or a related field, with a preference for candidates who have worked in fast-paced tech or AI-driven environments
- Proven track record of securing high-quality media coverage and managing end-to-end communications efforts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear, engaging narratives
- Strong news judgment and a keen understanding of media cycles, journalist priorities, and industry dynamics
- Able to operate independently and strategically in a fast-moving startup environment; experience building functions from the ground up is a plus
- Comfortable collaborating with executive stakeholders and representing the company externally with credibility and confidence
- Ability to juggle multiple priorities, adapt quickly to changing circumstances, and deliver high-quality work on deadline
- Strong attention to detail and a high editorial standard

## Nice to Have

- Experience working with or managing PR agencies or freelancers
- Familiarity with AI, machine learning, or other emerging technologies
- Background in crisis communications or issues management
- Understanding of SEO, social media strategy, or content marketing
- Media training experience for executives or spokespeople

Don’t meet every qualification? We encourage strong applicants to apply—we are looking for the right people, not just checking a box.

## Who We Are

We are a group of ambitious individuals who are passionate about creating a revolutionary AI company. At Hive, you will have a steep learning curve and an opportunity to contribute to one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in San Francisco. The work you do here will have a noticeable and direct impact on the development of the company.

Thank you for your interest in Hive and we hope to meet you soon!

The current expected base salary for this position ranges from $100,000 - $135,000. Actual compensation may vary depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; stock options may be offered in addition to the range provided here.

## About Hive

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hive provides cloud-based AI models and APIs to understand, search, and generate content for enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D, $50M raised in April 2021 at a $2B valuation)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (additional offices in Seattle, USA and New Delhi/Gurgaon, India)
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Kevin Guo (CEO) and Dmitriy Karpman (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (content understanding, moderation, brand protection, generative AI)
- **Target customers**: B2B – large digital platforms, media companies, brands, and risk/identity management organizations
- **Mission**: To empower developers with best-in-class, pre-trained AI models and turnkey software for critical business needs.

## Products & Services
- **[Content Moderation APIs](https://thehive.ai/)**: Pre-trained models to detect NSFW, hate speech, violence, CSAM, and other harmful content across images, video, text, and audio.
- **[Brand Protection & Sponsorship Measurement](https://thehive.ai/)**: AI-driven tools to measure sponsorship exposure, optimize ad targeting, and protect brand safety across platforms.
- **[Search & Identification](https://thehive.ai/)**: Next-generation search capabilities for datasets including web images, intellectual property, and customer-provided content.
- **[Generative AI](https://thehive.ai/)**: Proprietary and open-source models to generate text, image, video, and audio content.
- **Turnkey Software**: Ready-to-use applications powered by Hive’s proprietary models for content moderation, contextual ad targeting, and more.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2B valuation as of Series D (April 2021)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $12.5M (estimated, per LinkedIn); Total Funding of $155.7M across 6 rounds (Seed, Series A, B, C, D)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, 8VC, Tomales Bay Capital, Glynn Capital
- **Growth Signals**: API volume increased by more than 10x over the past 2 years; headcount grew 7.3% YoY to 287 employees; serves billions of customer API requests monthly; trusted by hundreds of the world’s largest organizations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Broad, pre-trained model portfolio**: Covers video, image, text, and audio with industry-leading accuracy.
- **Scale and reliability**: Billions of API requests per month, proven at enterprise scale.
- **End-to-end offering**: APIs for developers plus turnkey software for non-technical teams.
- **Strong backing and valuation**: $2B valuation from top-tier venture firms signals market confidence.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling infrastructure**: Increasing serving capacity to handle continued API volume growth.
- **Expanding client base**: Targeting large enterprises in media, technology, risk management, and advertising.
- **Deepening generative AI capabilities**: Investing in proprietary models for content generation alongside understanding/search.

## Why Work Here
- **Fast growth environment**: API volume has 10x’d in two years, offering opportunities for impact and career acceleration.
- **Small, high-impact teams**: Employees have direct influence on technical and organizational systems.
- **Competitive compensation**: Base salary plus heavy focus on equity-based compensation for long-term alignment.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Health, dental, vision insurance; gym membership; on-site roles in San Francisco and Seattle (with an office in New Delhi).
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on building models, increasing serving capacity, and solving hard scaling challenges. On-site presence required for many roles.
- **Diverse workforce**: Employees across 15 countries; strong representation from India and US; top talent sourced from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Carnegie Mellon.

## Sources
1. [thehive.ai/careers](https://thehive.ai/careers)
2. [thehive.ai/about-us](https://thehive.ai/about-us)
3. [thehive.ai](https://thehive.ai/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/hiveai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiveai)
5. [jobs.lever.co/hive](https://jobs.lever.co/hive)

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