Executive & internal communications · the comms-first view

The message lands.

Eight years producing live news in network control rooms. Eight years at Google, where I led communications for the horizontal org that drives technical change across the company, wrote for a VP and Google's then-CIO, and built AI infrastructure so the comms function scales instead of drowning. This page is the communications-first view of that career. The full builder site is one click away, because the systems work is part of the comms story, not a departure from it.

The seat I held

1,000+
Principal, Distinguished, and Fellow engineers served as the org's communications lead. An analytical, truth-seeking audience that notices spin instantly.
VP + CIO
Principals written for directly: VP-level executive communications at xGE, and C-suite writing for Google's then-CIO in Corporate Engineering.
600+ / 300+
Owned communications for the annual senior-IC summit (600+ attendees) and quarterly forums (300+ each), plus the quarterly Distinguished and Principal Engineering newsletters.
Three tiers
Authored the org's three-tier communications operating model and its multi-channel strategy: routine requests move fast, high-stakes work gets full partnership.
Cadence
Ran the recurring approval-intake prioritization meetings and drove cross-org security and memory-safety mandates through to approval, working alongside engineering leads and program owners.
10+
Producers led at AJ+ during its 500M-weekly-view era. Three I coached moved from behind the camera to on-air principals, with Emmy and Webby wins of their own.

Earlier: rebuilt Google's Day-One technical orientation into self-service onboarding for 75,000+ new hires at 88% CSAT. Also designed the peer-led speaker series and annual survey that shape the senior-engineer community's roadmap.

Mitchell Williams on the AJ+ studio set, boom microphone in frame
aj+ studio, 2016. on both sides of the camera.

Judgment when counsel is in the room

Comms leadership gets tested when Legal is on the call. Twice, that test ran live on air. At HuffPost Live I covered Scientology while the network was under active legal scrutiny. Counsel drew hard lines. I built the editorial filter that got every segment through review without losing the story. Then Fusion. I produced Jorge Ramos's flagship weekly under a $500 million lawsuit. Half a billion dollars on the line. The coverage ran. We stayed the reporter, never the headline.

Same discipline carried into Google. Executive comms under regulatory and litigation scrutiny. The first draft has to anticipate the review, not fight it.

I built the infrastructure so the function scales

While leading communications, I built the systems a modern comms function needs. Not a career change. The same job, given leverage.

Executive digital twin
A writing system encoding one VP's voice: a constitution of voice rules plus a banned-phrase checklist, built in partnership with the principal it serves and used to draft high-stakes executive communications. It cut review back-and-forth with the VP by about 70%, a figure I measured myself and a reference can confirm. The voice encoding is consensual, documented, and auditable; the principal always holds final sign-off.
Comms triage agent
An autonomous intake pipeline for the org's communications requests: triage, revise, escalate, with a confidence threshold that routes anything uncertain to a human. Documented end to end and handed off with a full operator runbook. Designed to auto-handle roughly 55% of inbound requests and projected to recapture about 160 operational hours a year; both are design targets, reported as targets.
voice-os
The methodology rebuilt in public: an open-source pipeline that scores any draft against a target voice on six stylistic axes and gates anything below threshold. The repo documentation is linked from the writing room.
Agent orchestration
On my own time: a multi-model agent orchestration system with cost governance, scheduled autonomous jobs, and a live operations dashboard. For a comms leader, the point is fluency: I can read what the models actually do, so I can communicate about them without hand-waving.

In the principal's words

Testimonial · being gathered

The right voice here is the VP I wrote for. I'm requesting that quote directly, not reconstructing it from reviews. This space stays empty until it lands. References who can vouch for the ghostwriting and the review-cycle claim are available on request.

Read the work

The writing room Real writing, word for word: published scripts as broadcast, redacted internal documentation from both Google roles, and weekly essays as they land. Three stories for comms hiring managers Ramos under a $500M lawsuit. Scientology under legal scrutiny. An executive's voice encoded as a system.

Talk to me

Hiring for executive comms, internal comms, or a comms leader who can build? Email me: mitwilli@gmail.com. The resume PDF is one click, no form. Seattle-based, open to relocation, US citizen. I move fast, whatever process you run.