PR & Communications Expert - AI

Obsidian; New York (NY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is building high-fidelity simulated work environments to test AI-driven PR and communications. You will craft briefs, determine required artifacts, and specify tool states that reflect real-world press work.

Your role includes writing references and criteria to differentiate strong responses from plausible, wrong ones, and evaluating AI agent attempts against a clear standard. The work spans diagnosing ambiguous data, prioritizing tradeoffs, planning, QA, and multi-tool orchestration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on PR or corporate communications experience.
• Experience pitching reporters and handling embargoes.
• Familiarity with AI training environments or simulated case studies preferred.
• Strong written reasoning and documentation skills.
• Experience using email, shared drives and project trackers.

Responsibilities

• Design task briefs for PR/communications tasks.
• Specify required documents, dashboards, personas, and tool states.
• Write or review reference answers and evaluation criteria.
• Review AI agent attempts and judge against standards.
• Support data diagnosis, planning, QA, reporting and coordination across tools.

Skills

PR experience

Written communication

Data-driven decision making

Media pitching

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications

Tools

Email

Shared drives

Project tracker

Job description

About the work

We are building high-fidelity simulated work environments used to evaluate and improve AI agents on real marketing work. Each environment reproduces a marketing org's actual tool surface — email, storage, CRM, project management, social media management, web analytics, AEO/SEO, ads, CMS, product analytics and support — populated with realistic documents, dashboards, personas and deliberately planted problems.

You will help design and pressure-test the PR and Communications environments: the briefs, the artifacts, the judgment calls a strong practitioner would make, and the errors a weaker one would miss.

What you will do

• Design task briefs drawn from work you have actually done in PR or communications, including what the task is really testing — the planted issue and the decision a strong practitioner should reach
• Specify the documents, dashboards, personas and tool states a realistic version of that task requires
• Write or review the reference answer and the criteria that separate a strong response from a plausible-but-wrong one
• Review AI agent attempts and judge them against your own standard

Tasks span the capabilities we measure: diagnosing what happened from messy or conflicting data, prioritizing and making tradeoffs, planning and executing, QA and reconciliation, triage and escalation, research and evaluation, reporting, and orchestrating multi-step work across several tools.

PR & Communications scope

Media pitching, embargo and exclusive strategy, announcement sequencing, interview preparation, coverage evaluation, corrections, and launch communications.

Who we are looking for

• Hands-on practitioner experience in PR or corporate communications — you have pitched reporters, run embargoes and handled corrections yourself
• Comfortable working across email, shared drives and a project tracker as a comms workflow
• Prior experience building AI training environments, RL environments or simulated case studies is strongly preferred
• Rubric Academy or Rubric Bootcamp certification is strongly preferred
• Clear written reasoning — much of the value is in explaining why a decision is right

Screening

Applicants complete a short multiple-choice knowledge screener specific to this sub-domain before review.