VP of Communications

As VP of Communications at TRM Labs, you own how the company shows up in the world: the corporate narrative, the earned channels that carry it, and the voices across the company that amplify it. You'll build a dedicated communications function from responsibilities currently shared across the team and set proactive narrative strategy on how modern crime is changing and how it's best fought, so that the market, media, analysts, prospective talent, and investors look to TRM for the definitive view on AI investigations, the capacity gap facing crime fighters, and how to close it.

What you'll do

• Own TRM's corporate narrative and executive-visibility program, ensuring one clear story is carried consistently by leaders in the conversations that matter
• Build and manage journalist and analyst relationships to grow TRM's share of voice and quality of coverage across media and earned channels
• Identify subject-matter experts from every function and place them on stages, in bylines, and across corporate social channels, preparing them with guides and AI-enabled workflows to stay consistent and on-brand
• Establish monitoring, playbooks, and AI-assisted media tracking to respond fast and credibly when reputation is at stake
• Consolidate communications responsibilities currently split across several people into one dedicated function
• Manage TRM's PR agency and an APAC-based communications lead contractor from day one, with potential to build out the team as the function grows
• Work closely with Policy, Insights, Product Marketing, Brand/Content, company leadership, and subject-matter experts across the company

What you bring

• 10+ years in corporate and executive communications, including owning earned media, ideally at a security, fintech, intelligence, or regulated-tech company
• Proven track record as a proactive narrative strategist who has placed high-quality coverage and grown share of voice, not just shipped releases
• Fluency in building sophisticated, credible corporate narratives about AI: what it changes, where it creates risk, and where your company stands
• Applied AI fluency: you use AI across monitoring, research, drafting, and reporting, and you build workflows others can use
• A talent-spotter and teacher who can find experts across a company, place them in the right forums, and coach them to be confident in front of press and audiences
• Ability to build a function and its systems from the ground up, and lead cross-functionally without a large standing team
• Experience with a strong crisis-communications program and sound judgment under pressure; you've supported a live issue or two, with instinct to put your company into the conversation, not keep it out
• Excellent writing and editing skills to distill complex, technical topics for press, executives, and the public

What we offer

• Base salary of $195,000-$255,000 (US-based role; adjusted for other geographies)
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan
• Occasional travel for media, executive events, and team offsites (low to moderate frequency)
• Distributed work with periodic in-person time for key moments
• Core overlap across US business hours

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco and operating as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore, TRM provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime.