Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a communications strategy, plan, and budget aligned with Firm objectives and market priorities.
• Lead the Communications team, including campaign management, public relations, editorial, recognition, social media, internal communications, digital media, and website content.
• Collaborate closely with Firm leadership, practice leaders, department chiefs, and colleagues across the Marketing team, including business development, events, and related functions.
• Work closely with the Firm’s Senior Communications & Brand Manager to ensure consistency of voice, messaging, visual identity, and positioning across all channels, audiences, and jurisdictions.
• Oversee integrated, multi-channel campaigns from strategy through execution, ensuring strong planning, effective collaboration, efficient processes, and measurable results.
• Oversee any public relations firms, writers, digital partners, and other communications resources, including development of RFPs and procurement steps.
• Drive data-informed decision-making by using analytics, audience insights, and performance metrics to improve engagement, strengthen content effectiveness, and enhance operational performance.
• Establish KPIs measuring business impact, including share of voice, executive visibility, media sentiment, audience engagement, campaign performance, and competitive benchmarking.
• Lead media relations by cultivating relationships with target publications, securing placements in top-tier business, legal, and trade outlets, and managing internal resources and any external public relations agencies.
• Manage crisis and issues communications, including the preparation of statements, Q&As, briefing materials, stakeholder messaging , and rapid response protocols.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, marketing, business, or a related field.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience in marketing communications in a law firm, consulting firm, or other professional services environment.
• Law firm experience is required.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing a marketing communications team.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing social media strategies for a sophisticated professional services brand, including content planning, channel governance, executive visibility, performance reporting, and audience engagement.
• Demonstrated experience managing website strategy, content governance, search optimization, analytics, and user experience in partnership with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to influence, build trust, and persuade across all levels of the organization.
• Deep and accessible network with media and PR outlets and agencies.
• Strong media relations, relationship management, brand, editorial, and digital communications judgment.
• Strong skills in strategy development, CRM-driven communications, audience segmentation, digital analytics, AI-enabled communications technologies, and modern media platforms, project management, problem solving, and change management.

Benefits

• full-time, regular position with a multi-faceted health benefit package including medical, dental, and vision
• the firm also offers life insurance, short term disability plans and retirement plans in addition to holidays and paid time off
• the firm offers hybrid work schedules combining in office work days as well as remote work days