Communications Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$98K/yr – $138K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

The role owns day-to-day social and external communications for Elemental, driving editorial planning, content creation, and performance analysis across LinkedIn and other channels, while coordinating with design, media, and cross-functional teams.

  • Owns social media management, content calendars, and community engagement.
  • Leads drafting of newsletters, case studies, pitches, and executive materials, plus analytics and process improvements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage the day-to-day execution of Elemental’s social media channels, with a particular focus on LinkedIn, including editorial planning, drafting, approvals, publishing, and performance tracking.
  • Support social media community engagement, including identifying opportunities to engage with relevant conversations and monitoring inbound activity.
  • Draft and edit longer-form communications, including newsletters, blog posts, case studies, portfolio stories, executive content, and event materials.
  • Recommend creative approaches and visuals to bring stories to life—including photos, graphics, video, and other assets—and coordinate with our graphic designer as needed.
  • Support earned media and executive communications, including drafting pitches, briefing books, talking points, and background materials.
  • Monitor relevant media and sector conversations, partners, portfolio companies, and peers to identify timely opportunities for storytelling and engagement.
  • Project manage key Communications team priorities from planning through execution, developing timelines, coordinating inputs and approvals, and keeping deliverables on track.
  • Help maintain visibility across team priorities, deadlines, and dependencies, proactively flagging risks, questions, or decisions needed to keep work moving.
  • Coordinate with colleagues across Elemental on communications projects, ensuring the right people are engaged and clear on deliverables, timelines, and next steps.
  • Help strengthen team processes, tools, and ways of working to make communications planning and execution more effective.

Requirements

  • Relevant experience in communications, marketing, social media, public relations, journalism, nonprofit communications, or a related field.
  • Experience managing social media channels and developing digital content, with specific experience on LinkedIn.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, with experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Experience drafting a range of communications materials; experience with media pitches, briefing materials, executive communications, or earned media is a plus.
  • Comfort working with communications metrics and using data to identify insights and inform recommendations.
  • Strong attention to detail and sound editorial judgment, with an ability to adapt tone and style for different audiences and formats.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and build strong working relationships.
  • Comfort receiving feedback, incorporating it into your work, and continuing to strengthen your craft.
  • Interest/experience in climate tech, entrepreneurship, sustainability, nonprofit work, and/or environmental impact is a plus.

Preferred

  • Experience with media pitches, briefing materials, executive communications, or earned media is a plus.
  • Interest/experience in climate tech, entrepreneurship, sustainability, nonprofit work, and/or environmental impact is a plus.

Benefits

  • comprehensive employee benefits, including a professional development stipend and three weeks paid time off.

Salaries

Posted range

$98K/yr – $138K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Communications median pay in the United States

$93K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $138K. Based on 5,964 salaries.

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