VP of Communications (AI)

Location: Remote; United States or London, United Kingdom. US-based role with core overlap across US business hours, occasional travel for media, executive events, and team offsites, and periodic in-person attendance for key moments.

US base salary: $195,000–$255,000, with potential eligibility for TRM's equity plan. Compensation may vary for geographies outside the United States.

Company

hirify.global provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime by tracing illicit activity, building cases, and mapping threat networks.

What you will do

• Build a dedicated communications function from responsibilities currently shared across the team.
• Develop TRM's corporate narrative and messaging architecture around AI investigations, modern crime, and the capacity gap facing crimefighters.
• Design and run an executive-visibility program and grow high-quality earned media, analyst coverage, and share of voice.
• Identify, place, prepare, and coach subject-matter experts for stages, bylines, press interactions, and corporate social channels.
• Establish reputation monitoring, crisis-communications playbooks, and AI-assisted media-tracking and reporting workflows.
• Manage TRM's PR agency and an APAC-based communications contractor, with potential to build a team as the function grows.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in corporate and executive communications, including ownership of earned media.
• Experience ideally in security, fintech, intelligence, or regulated technology.
• Demonstrated success developing proactive corporate narratives, placing high-quality coverage, and growing share of voice.
• Ability to build sophisticated, credible corporate narratives about AI, including its effects, risks, and strategic implications.
• AI-native approach using AI for monitoring, research, drafting, reporting, and reusable workflows.
• Ability to identify subject-matter experts, place them in appropriate forums, and coach them for press and public audiences.
• Experience building a communications function and its systems from the ground up and leading cross-functionally without a large standing team.
• Exposure to a strong crisis-communications program, experience supporting live issues, and sound judgment under pressure.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to press, executives, and the public.

Nice to have

• Prior experience at a security, fintech, intelligence, or regulated-technology company.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed-first work environment with fast, async-first collaboration and weekly marketing and leadership syncs.
• No formal on-call schedule, with crisis-response availability expected when issues arise.
• Low to moderate travel for media, executive events, and team offsites.
• High-ownership, high-velocity environment focused on clarity, follow-through, experimentation, and impact.
• Work at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting crime, with frequent cross-functional collaboration and changing priorities.
• Leadership principles emphasize impact, craft, ownership, adaptability, candor, and one-team collaboration.

Hiring process

• Recruiter introduction, hiring-manager discussion, and first-round interviews focused on critical skills.
• Final hands-on case study, typically in a panel format, plus an AI skills assessment and Leadership Principles interview.
• Reference checks followed by an offer; the specific interview plan and preparation guidance are provided by the recruiter.