Storytelling

Simile; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible time off

Job summary

Simile is seeking a driven strategic communicator to own and evangelize our external narrative. You will craft a clear point of view on what Simile is building and why it matters, ensuring it is consistent across channels and moments.

The role requires hands-on writing, directing, and shipping content—plus leading creative on videos and editorial execution. You will engage enterprise audiences and shape our public storytelling at scale.

Qualifications

• Exceptional creative taste and a point of view beyond years of experience.
• A portfolio of published or produced work, including ghostwritten pieces.
• Ability to locate the truth inside complex, technical work and communicate it without clichés.
• Creative courage to challenge familiar conventions and pursue new playbooks.
• Comfort in ambiguity at early stage, building the system rather than inheriting it.

Responsibilities

• Own the external narrative: Craft and evangelize the company story with a clear point of view, ensuring consistency wherever Simile appears.
• Set the beats: calendar monthly/quarterly moments to turn roadmaps into market stories.
• Land the opportunities: pursue press, conferences, and podcasts, build relationships, and secure access to audiences.
• Win the lists and the publications: ensure Simile is represented in key publications and on relevant lists.
• Keep the blog alive: run an active company blog with posts 1–2 weeks apart, ghostwritten in founder/team voices.
• Act as creative director: own the creative on every company video from concept to final cut.
• Ship and polish: maintain high editorial standards while moving fast.
• Reach the decision-makers: connect with enterprise leaders and ensure narrative reaches influential audiences.

Skills

Creative taste

Portfolio

Tech storytelling

Creative courage

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

About the Company

Simile is The Simulation Company. We simulate human behavior to keep people at the center of the decisions that shape the world. With AI, anyone can create a product, a campaign, a policy, or a script — the bottleneck has moved upstream. The hard question is no longer whether you can create something, but what to create, for whom, and how to bring it to life. Those are fundamentally human decisions, and they shouldn't be left to chance or handed off to an algorithm. We're building the infrastructure to understand human behavior at scale and to represent humans in an increasingly agentic world. Our mission is to simulate all eight billion people on earth.

We launched five months ago. Since then we've grown revenue 5x, built a new foundation model for human behavior that has run tens of millions of simulations for F100 enterprises, trained a first-of-its-kind confidence model that predicts the accuracy of every simulation, and released the first product that lets organizations verifiably predict the future. The world's leading companies use Simile to make business-critical decisions — from consumer leaders like CVS Health and Wealthfront to professional services organizations like Deloitte and Gallup — strategizing product launches, entering new markets, and forecasting earnings calls.

We've raised over $200M at a $2B post-money valuation led by Greenoaks, with Index Ventures, Hanabi, A*, Bain Capital Ventures, and CVS Health Ventures. We've grown from a small home in Palo Alto to a global team of 50+, and we're building a team of the best researchers, engineers, designers, and operators in the world. The future is too important to be left to chance.

About the Role

Simile has a story that almost no one else can tell. We have built the first AI simulation of society, and we are pioneering an entirely new category of technology. The science is real, the ambition is enormous, and the implications touch nearly every consequential decision made in the world. What we need now is the voice to match.

This role owns how Simile shows up to the world. You will craft and evangelize our external narrative, decide what we say and when we say it, and make sure the story of what we are building reaches the people who need to hear it. You will set the editorial vision and run the engine behind it, and you will do it hands-on: writing, directing, and shipping.

In this role, you will:

• Own the external narrative: Craft and evangelize the company story. Develop a clear, opinionated point of view on what Simile is building and why it matters, and make sure that narrative is consistent everywhere we show up.

• Set the beats: Identify the monthly and quarterly moments we want to lean into, and build the calendar that turns a roadmap into a story the market follows.

• Land the opportunities: Find and act on press, conference, and podcast opportunities. Decide which ones are worth chasing, build the relationships, and get us in the room.

• Win the lists and the publications: Make sure Simile is well represented in customer-facing publications and lands on the lists we want to be on. Know which ones matter and which ones are vanity.

• Keep the blog alive: Run an active company blog with a post every one to two weeks, largely through ghostwriting in the voices of our founders and team.

• Act as creative director: Own the creative on every video we launch as a company, from concept to final cut.

• Ship and polish: Set a high editorial bar while moving fast.

• Reach the decision-makers: Identify and act on opportunities to engage enterprise leaders, making sure our narrative reaches the audiences whose attention compounds for the business.

Requirements

Must Haves

• Exceptional creative taste and a point of view: You have a strong instinct for what is original and emotionally true, and a track record of work that reflects it. We will care more about this than your years of experience.

• A portfolio you can show: Published or produced work, ideally including pieces you ghostwrote or shaped in someone else's voice. We will read and watch it closely.

• Ability to find the truth inside a technical subject: You can locate the emotional or cultural truth inside complex, technical work and communicate it without reaching for clichés.

• Creative courage: You are willing to challenge familiar conventions and pursue new playbooks rather than defaulting to what B2B brands usually do.

• Comfort in ambiguity at early stage: Experience doing this work without an established playbook, ideally where you built the system rather than inherited it.

Nice to Haves

• A multidisciplinary creative practice: You think through image, motion, interaction, space, or experience, and can direct collaborators across those disciplines.

• Enterprise empathy: An instinct for what enterprise leaders and decision-makers actually care about.

• Relationships you can activate: Existing press, podcast, and conference connections you can put to work from day one.

• A feel for new categories: Experience telling the story of a technical or research-driven product, especially in AI or a net-new category.

• Proof you understand distribution: A personal audience or platform that shows you grasp reach, not just craft.

Compensation & Benefits

At Simile, we provide competitive compensation packages that include base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.

• Salary Range: $200,000 – $300,000 USD

  • Note: Final offers are based on experience, specialized skills, interview performance, and relevant training.

• Equity: Grants are available for eligible roles, subject to board approval.

• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Time Off: Flexible time off policies to support work-life balance.

Our Process

We prioritize thoughtful conversations and clear examples of past work. Our hiring journey is designed to help both sides align on fit, working style, and expectations.

Reapplication Policy: To ensure a fair and thorough evaluation for all applicants, Simile observes a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Equal Opportunity: Simile is an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities, valuing an environment where everyone can contribute authentically.

Accommodations: If you require support or reasonable accommodations during the application process due to a disability, please let us know. We are happy to assist.