About the role

Role Overview

Communications Manager (senior IC) at Lemon.io, reporting directly to the founder. Own Lemon’s external voice and distribution with the goal of making Lemon impossible to ignore in engineering hiring.

Responsibilities

Executive Communications
- Create and execute founder personal-brand platforms
- Produce and distribute day-to-day content on founders’ channels
- Support earned media (podcasts, panels, op-eds, speaking)
Internal News Scouting & Narrative Development
- Monitor product, customer success, sales, and ops syncs for newsworthy stories
- Identify and shape moments worth sharing publicly
- Convert internal milestones, launches, learnings, and customer wins into external content
- Distribute via social and traditional media
Team Engagement
- Build and support an internal content program across functions
- Equip employees with ready-to-use content and templates
- Coordinate participation in industry conversations
Monitoring & Automation
- Build and maintain content/distribution workflows using AI tools
- Set up monitoring for brand mentions, press coverage, and audience growth
- Track, grow, and report communications metrics quarterly

Requirements

Native/fluent English with cultural fluency for a US tech audience
Excellent writing ability; able to be the “voice behind someone else’s posts”
Proven track record telling a company/product/movement story
Background in technology, B2B software, talent/recruiting, dev tools, or adjacent areas
Deep immersion in independent media (e.g., Substack, podcasts, influencers on X/LinkedIn)
AI is part of your working style
Comfortable operating in uncertainty; results-oriented with strong bias to action
Interest in a small, fast-paced, impactful team

What Success Looks Like (First 4 Weeks)

Systems to capture team/product content and continuously manufacture news
Launched amplification program (team + external voices)
Repurposing workflow: one idea becomes multiple formats (post, thread, clip, newsletter line)
Identified the key 3–5 narratives the market will repeat
Enabled internal voices with recurring posting systems and content feeds
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About Lemon.io

Lemon.io builds an AI platform for hiring that replaces traditional recruiting agencies by delivering vetted, responsive candidates ready for interview. It helps fast-growing companies—including early-stage startups and enterprises—scale engineering teams quickly. The company is profitable, bootstrapped, and focused on rewriting the legacy recruiting industry through technology.