Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic business partner and communications counselor to North America Enterprise Security sales leaders with a focus on building relationships and gathering insights that can be used in messaging and media pitching
• Partner with product and marketing teams to align communications activities
• Lead the development and execution of strategic external communication plans and programs that tell the company’s story to reporters, investors and other key audiences
• Create well-crafted, concise and highly engaging communications including pitches, press releases, blog posts, and other materials needed to tell our enterprise security stories
• Build and maintain key media relationships and regularly pitch national, local and trade media with enterprise security stories
• Manage communications activities at and around priority North America tradeshows
• Read enterprise security and technology news; support monitoring, measurement and crisis communications

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; journalism, communications or English preferred
• 7+ years of communications experience with a corporation or public relations agency or in journalism
• Strategic thinker who can build a network, gather information and translate it into communications projects and plans that generate coverage and clear results
• Outstanding writing, editing and proofreading skills
• Savvy media strategist who knows how to leverage top-tier, trade and local outlets for earned coverage, as well as paid, shared and owned channels
• Seasoned professional who exerts influence in navigating all levels of the organization and consistently exhibits strong judgment and commitment to excellence
• Detailed project manager who leads complex workstreams with cross-functional contributors, meets tight deadlines and easily adjusts as circumstances change
• Serious commitment to excellence, quality and attention to detail
• Experience working with sales teams, marketing and company leaders preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree AND 7+ years of communications experience with a corporation or public relations agency or in journalism

Benefits

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!