Senior Manager, Communications (Remote, US)

USA (Remote)

$155K/yr – $185K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own the external narrative and media strategy to raise the company’s profile through media relations, executive visibility, thought leadership, and milestone-driven communications while leading crisis response and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Drive media relations and executive visibility
  • Shape thought leadership and milestone communications

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead media relations
  • Lead announcements and executive visibility
  • Build thought leadership and brand presence
  • Lead through milestones and moments
  • Manage crisis communications
  • Partner cross-functional

Requirements

  • 7+ years of communications experience, with meaningful energy-sector experience.
  • Strong existing relationships with energy trade press and tier-1 financial/business journalists, ability to speak to specific reporters and outlets, not just categories of coverage.
  • A strong B2B editorial mindset
  • Demonstrated experience helping an early-stage or high-growth company navigate major growth milestones and communicate it externally.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity, adapts quickly when approvals are delayed or plans change without losing momentum.
  • Exceptional writing and spokesperson skills, comfortable being coached, and comfortable coaching others.
  • A demonstrated bias toward proactive storytelling with a clear eye for risk management.
  • Experience building a communications function and managing agency support.
  • Exceptional crisis communication skills: rapid response, message development, stakeholder management and balanced with an instinct for staying on offense.
  • Ability to work closely with go-to-market, brand, product, policy, strategy, operations and data analytics to craft a compelling narrative for our company and mission.

Benefits

  • A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $155k - $185k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 20% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.
  • Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
  • Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
  • Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
  • 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
  • Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.
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Renew Home

Renew Home is shaping the future of energy management and accelerating the transition to more resilient, more affordable power, by changing how we use energy at home. Through its home energy management platform, Renew Home helps millions of homes save energy and shift their energy use to times when it's less expensive, cleaner, or supports the grid. By coordinating nuanced, increasingly personalized adjustments, we are building a virtual power plant (VPP) that can deliver gigawatts of capacity.

Founded in 2023
Oakland, California, USA
174 employees (18 in marketing)

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$155K/yr – $185K/yr

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