Public Relations Manager

WEKA; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

WEKA is seeking a Public Relations Manager to run an external-facing PR program focused on earned media and strategic storytelling. Reporting to the Director, Corporate Communications, you will pitch and place stories, manage agency operations, and shepherd launches and milestones.

You’ll shape WEKA’s narrative around the inference economy, build trusted-source relationships, and position WEKA experts as industry authorities through bylines, speaking engagements, and timely commentary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in PR or corporate communications with B2B tech experience, in-house or agency.
• Proven ability to forge trusted media relationships and land top-tier placements.
• Experience running end-to-end launches, embargoed announcements, and multistakeholder coordination.
• AI fluency and using AI tools to enhance research, drafts, monitoring and measurement.
• Strong writing, editorial judgment, and ability to shape and defend points of view.

Responsibilities

• Drive media and influencer relations with tier-one tech and AI trade outlets.
• Develop trend authority and provide timely commentary and thought leadership.
• Lead thought leadership through bylines, articles, podcasts, and speaking engagements.
• Orchestrate launch communications: press releases, embargoes, briefings, timelines.
• Manage earned/owned/paid mix and coordination with agencies and spokespeople.
• Oversee external agency work and measure coverage, sentiment, and share of voice.

Skills

Media relations

Influencer relations

Press launches

Storytelling

AI fluency

Wires/analytics platforms

Project management

Tools

Cision One

PR Newswire

Job description

Public Relations Manager / Sr. Manager

AI's ambitions keep outpacing the infrastructure and economics underneath it. WEKA exists to close that gap. The WEKA® NeuralMesh™ software platform gives enterprises, AI cloud providers, research teams, and frontier AI builders a unified foundation for AI training, inference, and agentic workloads, purpose-built for the inference economy.

A growth-stage company backed by world-class investors, WEKA holds more than 170 patents and is trusted by the world's most ambitious AI builders and innovators. We're accountable, brave, collaborative, and customer-centric. These core values define how we work and win together. If we sound like your kind of people, join us!

About The Role

WEKA is seeking a Public Relations Manager to run and accelerate the media engine behind one of the most consequential stories in enterprise tech. This is a fully external-facing role, focused entirely on public relations and earned media. Reporting to the Director, Corporate Communications, you'll pitch and place stories, execute launches, direct agency operations day to day, and keep WEKA in the conversations that matter.

The mission is bigger than just announcement and launch coverage. It's trend authority and thought leadership. You’ll ensure WEKA experts are quoted in the stories that define the inference economy, forging trusted-source relationships the industry turns to when news breaks, and sharpening points of view that shape how the market thinks about data infrastructure today and why AI demands a new approach built for this era. You'll build trust and authority story by story, source by source, until WEKA is the call journalists and industry commentators make first.

What You'll Be Working On

• Media and influencer relations. Pitch and place stories with tier-one tech, business, and AI trade media and influencers. Build relationships that survive and thrive beyond product launches and company announcements.
• Trend authority and trusted commentary. Run AI-assisted monitoring of the news cycle and competitive landscape, develop sharp points of view on breaking trends, and place expert commentary while the story is still moving. Make WEKA spokespeople the sources reporters call before deadline, and know when silence is the smarter play.
• Thought leadership. Build the pipeline that establishes WEKA experts as recognized voices in AI infrastructure: bylines, contributed articles, podcasts, speaking opportunities, and industry awards and rankings that compound third-party credibility.
• Launch communications. Run PR execution for product launches and company milestones: press releases, embargoes, briefing preparation and sequencing, and coordination across spokespeople, external stakeholders, agencies, and channels.
• Integrated program building. Drive a communications program mix in which earned media leads, and a balanced complement of owned and paid channels reinforces it.
• Agency operations. Manage our external agency's day-to-day work: set priorities, develop quality pitches, drive results. They should amplify your judgment, not replace it.
• Measurement. Own the PR scorecard: share of voice, media mentions, top publication penetration, message pull-through, sentiment, and how WEKA shows up in AI-generated answers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in PR or corporate communications, in-house or agency (8+ for Senior Manager consideration) with B2B tech experience, preferably in enterprise software or data infrastructure.
• Proven ability to forge trusted media and influencer relationships, develop earned pitches that land, and secure top-tier story placements, with a body of earned coverage to show for it.
• Demonstrated experience running end-to-end launches and embargoed news announcements, and coordinating multiple stakeholders and spokespeople.
• AI fluency and experience using AI tools and workflows to enhance and accelerate your communications practice, from research and first drafts to monitoring and measurement.
• Equally, you understand the art of iteration, possess strong writing and storytelling skills, and the editorial judgment and standards to know what ships and what doesn't.
• Experience working with newswire and PR analytics platforms to distribute news and measure and report on the efficacy and results of your work.

Good to Have

• AI and/or data infrastructure industry experience, and an understanding of what GPUs and tokens are, and why memory is the new production bottleneck.
• A mix of agency and in-house experience.
• Cision One and PR Newswire experience.
• Experience working with global growth-stage companies in competitive, fast-moving technology categories.

How We Work: Core Company Values

• We're Accountable: We take full ownership, even when things don't go as planned. We lead with integrity and hold ourselves and each other to the highest standard.
• We're Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks when needed. Challenges and debate are fuel for growth.
• We're Collaborative: We lift each other up to succeed collectively. We communicate with empathy and challenge each other respectfully. We are transparent about our goals and results. Together, we're unstoppable.
• We're Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of every decision we make. We listen to their needs and prioritize their success. When our customers win, we win.

WEKA is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. Studies show that underrepresented groups may hesitate to apply if they don't meet every qualification, but if you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply—you may be the right fit for this or other opportunities. WEKA is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind, providing fair opportunities to all employees and applicants regardless of background or protected status.