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Head of Communications

Lightfield lightfield.app Open · verified Sep 24, 2026
On-site San Francisco Full-time Director Communications

At a glance

Leadership Communications role at Lightfield. San Francisco · full-time · $210,000–$320,000 base.

SalaryStated by Lightfield
$210,000 – $320,000
Base salary for this role, in USD per year, as published in the posting.
This role, from LightfieldOur estimate for the market: $206,250–$266,805Median $225,000
Above the market median of $225,000 for lead communications roles in San Francisco.
Worked out from 19 postings that stated pay, median $225,000. Last updated Sep 21, 2026.
RoleCommunications
SeniorityDirector
LocationSan Francisco
WorkplaceOn-site
EmploymentFull-time
Base pay$210,000–$320,000
PostedSep 17, 2026 · 7d ago
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Shape the company narrative around its beliefs, product direction, and view of business software
  • Turn technical concepts such as customer memory, structured data, and agents into clear explanations
  • Interview engineers and customers to uncover original details, evidence, and story leads
  • Write essays, technical explainers, launches, and customer stories with the founders
  • Lead media outreach, publishing across blog, social, and newsletter, and founder interview preparation

What you bring

  • Exceptional writing and editing skills, with work showing range, judgment, and clear thinking
  • Reporter-like habits: verify claims, pursue deeper questions, and uncover meaningful details
  • Strategic communications judgment across audience, timing, competition, and supporting evidence
  • Ability to learn technical systems quickly and explain their tradeoffs to business audiences
  • Background in journalism, strategic communications, or technology-company editorial work

Who this fits

You’ll suit this role if you can investigate independently, develop original arguments, and carry ideas through publication. It is a senior individual-contributor communications role with room to own the function for the first time. The job is onsite in San Francisco.

From the employer

About Lightfield

Lightfield is reimagining CRM as a world model of a business. By learning from emails, meetings, and customer conversations, we’re building a living understanding of how a company works—so AI can help teams anticipate what comes next, make better decisions, and take action.

More than 5,000 companies have used the product since its November launch. We’ve raised more than $70M from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Maverick Ventures, and Greylock to attack the biggest software category in the world. We previously built Tome, which reached more than 25 million users, and our team brings experience from Llama, Instagram, Google, and Salesforce.

What you’ll do

  • Shape our narrative. Develop a clear, distinctive account of what Lightfield believes, what we’re building, and where business software is headed. Understand how Salesforce and other well-funded incumbents frame the market, find the assumptions worth challenging, and make our case with evidence.

  • Explain our technical vision. Help people understand our ambition to build a business world model: a representation of how a company works that lets AI reason about decisions and their consequences. Work with our engineers to explain how customer memory, structured data, and agents fit together—and why CRM is the place to start.

  • Report from inside the company. Interview engineers, sit in on customer conversations, use the product, and follow promising leads. Find the details and original insights that make a story worth telling. Bring us angles we haven’t thought of.

  • Develop and write our most important ideas. Work with the founders to turn emerging convictions about technology and business into original essays and arguments. Bring your own research, historical parallels, and customer evidence. Challenge the logic, strengthen the case, and write in a voice that feels unmistakably theirs. Bring the same rigor to technical explainers, product launches, and customer stories.

  • Own external communications. Build relationships with journalists, newsletter writers, and podcast hosts who matter to our audience. Develop pitches, plan announcements, and prepare founders for interviews. Exercise judgment about timing, claims, and when we have something worth saying.

  • Build a distinctive voice. Set the editorial standard for how Lightfield sounds. Partner with design and marketing on website copy, campaigns, and brand storytelling. Make our writing precise, interesting, and recognizably ours.

  • Give good stories a wider life. Build a focused publishing rhythm across our blog, social channels, and newsletter. Adapt strong ideas for different audiences and work with marketing to understand what earns attention, builds trust, and brings the right customers to Lightfield.

Who you are

  • You have a reporter’s instincts. You ask the second and third questions, check the claim, and keep digging until you understand what actually happened. You can find the interesting detail in a conversation that seemed routine.

  • You’re an exceptional writer and editor. You can develop an original argument, connect ideas across technology and business, and explain a difficult subject clearly. You’re as comfortable challenging a premise as editing a paragraph. Your portfolio shows both range and judgment.

  • You think strategically about communications. You understand how a story changes someone’s view of a company. You consider the audience, the timing, the competitive context, and the proof behind the message.

  • You understand how stories travel. You follow the journalists, founders, independent writers, podcasters, and creators shaping technology and business. You understand what earns attention across established publications, X, YouTube, podcasts, and newsletters, and how to adapt a story to each. You can spot an opening in the news cycle and develop original ideas that give others something worth discussing.

  • You get up to speed on technical concepts quickly. You can take an unfamiliar idea, dig into the source material, and ask the questions that get you to a real understanding. You can explain how a system works, the tradeoffs behind it, and why it matters to someone running a business.

  • You create your own momentum. You find an angle, get the interviews, and take a piece through to publication. You welcome direct feedback, move quickly, and care about the final sentence.

Your background might be in journalism, strategic communications, or an editorial role at a technology company. You may have reported for a publication with rigorous standards, edited your college newspaper, or become the person colleagues trust with their hardest writing. We’re interested in the instincts you developed and the work you can show us. This can be your first time owning a communications function.

Why this role

You’ll have direct access to the people building the product, substantial room to shape the company’s voice, and responsibility for work that influences how customers, recruits, and the industry understand Lightfield. There is a lot here to investigate, and a lot still to say.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive salary

  • Meaningful early equity

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

  • 3 weeks of PTO

  • 11 paid company holidays + we enjoy a winter holiday break

  • 3 months of paid family leave

  • Wednesdays work from home

  • Regular team dinners, events, offsites, and retreats

  • 401k plan

  • Other perks include: commuter and lunch stipend

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