Director of Tech PR

Blazel

Blazel is a new VC-backed AI startup that helps 100+ founders and executives grow their audience through AI‑powered marketing. Founded by Zain Jaffer, the company aims to disrupt executive communications and public relations.

This is a hybrid role, in-person 3 days a week in our Palo Alto office.

The role

We’re hiring a Director of Tech PR to build and lead a modern earned‑media function that combines classic relationship‑driven pitching with AI‑driven research, targeting, and scale. This is not a legacy PR role – we are trying to disrupt PR.

You will work with the CMO & CEO to architect a system that secures coverage and podcast bookings across hundreds of clients simultaneously, supported by automated workflows, AI assistants, and a human team.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate strong relationships with tier‑1 media contacts and podcast hosts, bookers, journalists, and editors across tech, business, and category‑specific media.
• Manage a team of PR specialists and work with our AI engineers to automate as much of the pitching process as possible.
• Define the strategy for securing steady editorial coverage and podcast appearances for a large number of tech clients.
• Build a scalable playbook that blends human judgment with AI targeting, research, and personalization.
• Set KPIs for volume, conversion rates, lead times, and narrative quality.
• Oversee the full pipeline of pitching, follow‑ups, scheduling, and post‑placement workflows.
• Review and refine pitches so they align with each client’s expertise and current themes.
• Stay on top of hundreds of moving parts across a broad client base without losing quality or pace.
• Implement processes that deliver predictable output and eliminate bottlenecks.
• Establish quality control across volume‑heavy operations.
• Own the PR tech stack (CRM, databases, tracking tools).
• Use AI agents, enrichment tools, and automated workflows to scale research, improve pitch targeting, and increase placement efficiency.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure messaging and positioning remain accurate across content and earned media.

Experience required

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing / Editing

Industries

Media and Telecommunications

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