Media Relations Lead

How We Operate

• Be a barrel. Full autonomy. Own things end to end, take on scope without being asked, no permission required to operate outside your core role.
• Insane urgency. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• Reason from first principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.
• Build something that actually matters. If you're going to spend your time, spend it on something that matters to the world.

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Earn the public's permission to build at a pace no one has. Gigawatt campuses across all regions in the US, each needing community trust before steel goes up.
• Make Fluidstack the most welcomed builder in every town we enter. Local-first engagement, enforceable community commitments, and household bills that never carry our costs.
• Tell the story of American reindustrialization through the work itself. Third-party validators, local voices, and earned coverage that compounds as the portfolio grows.

Role Scope

• Own media relationships at the local, state, and national levels, giving backgrounds and coordinating on-the-record comments so Fluidstack's story is told accurately to the right audience at the right time.
• Partner with external PR firms across sites and states, briefing them and directing their work so company interests are represented and internal teams are fully supported.
• Run the local announcement playbook end to end for each new site: press releases, local media tours, open houses, and milestone moments from permits locked to ribbon cutting.
• Build briefing materials, Q&A, and prep for every spokesperson moment, from a county open house to a founder's national interview.
• Field and triage inbound press across a multi-state portfolio, knowing when to engage, when to background, and when silence is the strategic answer.

What We're Looking for

The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.

• You've worked inside a PR agency and on the client side directing one, so you know how to brief a firm, push its work to the standard, and get full value from a retainer.
• You've run press in political or government settings where a single wrong quote carries real consequences, and your judgment on when not to engage is as sharp as your pitch.
• You've told the story of physical infrastructure at scale (data centers, energy, utilities, or large capital projects) to audiences ranging from skeptical locals to national reporters.
• You've created press events from scratch: announcements, open houses, site tours, ribbon cuttings, and the media moments that turn a milestone into coverage.
• You carry working relationships across all three altitudes of media, from the county weekly to the statehouse press corps to national desks, and you know which story belongs where.
• You write fast and clean under deadline: releases, statements, talking points, and backgrounders that need no second pass.
• Bonus: Hyperscale or data center industry coverage knowledge. Crisis and issues communications. Political campaign or statehouse press experience. Spanish-language media fluency.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.