Communications Manager - Hybrid

About The Role

Our CEO is rebuilding Replika from scratch — new app, new brand, new everything — and he needs someone at his side who can help shape how the company is understood by the outside world. This role sits between PR, founder communications, creative production, and light ops. You’ll work directly with the CEO on the stories Replika tells: to journalists, to writers, to academics, to cultural thinkers, to users, and to the world watching AI become something much more personal. You’ll liaise with PR and media agencies, help build an advisory board of writers, philosophers, and thinkers, co‑write essays and blog posts with the CEO, find academic collaborators, and produce creative projects that make Replika feel bigger than a product launch. Documentaries, narratives, brand stories, cultural moments — the work has range.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work directly with the CEO on narrative, culture, and public voice. You’ll help turn rough ideas into clear stories, public messages, essays, posts, and projects.
• Co‑write the Replika blog with the CEO. Draft, edit, structure, research, and help keep the voice sharp, human, and unmistakably ours.
• Liaise with PR and media agencies. Keep them moving, sharpen the briefs, coordinate interviews, track follow‑ups, and make sure the right stories get the right attention.
• Build an advisory board around Replika’s next chapter. Writers, philosophers, artists, psychologists, academics, and cultural thinkers who can help us think more deeply about AI companionship, loneliness, friendship, identity, and human flourishing.
• Find academic collaborators. Psychology professors, researchers, labs, and experts who can help shape product thinking, studies, public credibility, and the intellectual world around Replika.
• Produce creative projects. Documentaries, narrative pieces, founder stories, editorial collaborations, cultural events, and weird ideas that don’t fit neatly into a campaign calendar.
• Coordinate media and community activity. Schedule interviews, route inbound enquiries, prep briefs, keep agencies aligned, and make sure nothing important gets lost.
• Run the operational layer around the work. Timelines, follow‑ups, documents, decks, guest lists, vendors, travel, small logistics. The boring stuff has to be tight for the interesting stuff to happen.

Requirements

• Strong editorial instincts and excellent taste. You understand what makes an idea feel alive, what makes a story land, and what makes public communication feel human instead of manufactured.
• You can write in someone else’s voice. You’ll draft on the CEO’s behalf — posts, intros, messages, essays, interview prep — and it has to sound like him.
• Experience in PR, communications, media, journalism, founder office, creative production, or a similarly messy role where narrative and execution both mattered.
• You’ve worked with journalists, editors, agencies, creators, academics, or public thinkers before. You know how to approach serious people without sounding like a LinkedIn automation.
• You’re culturally curious. Books, film, technology, philosophy, psychology, art, internet culture — you don’t need to be an expert in all of it, but you need real range.
• You’ve supported a demanding, creative, fast‑moving executive before and genuinely enjoyed it. You understand the rhythm: things change, priorities shift, nothing is ever fully predictable, and that’s the part you like.
• Based in Paris, France. This is a hybrid role — we don’t have a physical office, but you’ll need to be with our CEO in person regularly.
• Fluent in English and French. English is the company’s working language and the writing bar is high. French helps with local logistics, media, vendors, events, and getting things done in Paris.
• Discreet and trustworthy. You’ll have access to sensitive personal and professional information. That trust is non‑negotiable.
• Obsessively organized and self‑directed. You hold a dozen threads at once, nothing slips, and you don’t wait for instructions when the answer is obvious.
• You’re not above the unglamorous stuff. Scheduling, follow‑ups, guest coordination, agency notes, vendor emails, travel, receipts. The role has range in both directions — creative ceiling, operational floor — and you’re good with both.

Bonus Points

• Experience supporting a founder or CEO in tech, startups, media, publishing, research, or creative industries.
• A background that’s not purely corporate. Maybe you’ve worked in journalism, film, literature, design, academia, fashion, production, or the arts. The kind of environment where taste and attention to detail aren’t optional.
• Experience working with PR agencies, journalists, documentary teams, authors, researchers, or cultural institutions.
• You’ve helped produce essays, talks, documentaries, editorial projects, public narratives, or founder‑led thought leadership.
• A genuine curiosity about AI, consumer products, psychology, relationships, and what Replika is building. You’ll be closer to the vision than almost anyone — it helps if that excites you.

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible job schedule and generous vacation policy.
• No corporate bs.
• Direct impact on millions of worldwide users within months.
• Push the boundaries of applied AI in a consumer setting.