Communications & Brand Programs Director

USA (On-site)

$123K/yr – $141K/yrDirector/Executive4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-channel social, PR, and content storytelling to package brand narratives into earned media and demand, while coordinating leadership content and calendar governance.

  • Social: calendar management, native content creation, and performance reporting.
  • PR & Content packaging: agency execution, executive participation, flagship programs, and amplification.)
  • Strategy & governance: narrative calendars, resourcing, and cross-team alignment with leadership.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Social execution: Manage social content calendar in coordination with third-party marketing agency and internal stakeholders.
  • Social execution: Develop channel-appropriate, native social content to support campaigns.
  • Social execution: Partner with Creative on visual identity and systems for optimizing social creative production.
  • Social execution: Report on engagement and signal insights and recommend iterative improvements.
  • PR And Comms Execution: Drive PR agency execution on pitched content initiatives and announcements.
  • PR And Comms Execution: Coordinate executive participation in contributed content, interviews, and commentary.
  • PR And Comms Execution: Ensure flagship programs (e.g., Stats) are fully packaged for earned media.
  • PR And Comms Execution: Report on media coverage, share-of-voice, and competitive signal.
  • Content Execution: Manage editorial calendar in coordination with Technical Storytelling Manager and Senior Technical Editorial Manager.
  • Content Execution: Own the Brand, Executive, and Corporate content lane and develop content to support campaigns.
  • Content Execution: Report on content performance and production.
  • Strategy & Coordination: Own the overall management of our narrative calendars and cadences, and establish protocols for flagging resourcing needs, scheduling conflicts, and messaging alignment.
  • Strategy & Coordination: Serve as the hub for brand campaign packaging and amplification, including drafting and distributing amplification content from key assets (pitching briefs, email sequences, day-of and long tail social campaigns, landing pages, sales collateral, etc.)
  • Strategy & Coordination: Partner with leadership to establish social, PR, and comms strategies aligned with business goals.
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Founded in 2007
San Mateo, California, USA
361 employees (32 in marketing)
75% recommend to a friend
83% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
870K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$240.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35.9%
Direct
55.4%
Referral
5.5%
Social
2.4%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~357

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
26 (7% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$62.8M
Last Raise
$20M
Post IPO Debt, 9 months ago

Funding History

  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $20M
  • Nov 2024
    Post IPO Equity • $37.5M
  • Jul 2012
    Series A • $5M

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