2 weeks ago
Sr Director, Corporate Communications
UKG
USA (Remote)$184K/yr – $265K/yr
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Sr Director, Corporate Communications
USA (Remote)
$184K/yr – $265K/yrSenior Level12+ years exp
Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Summary
Own and drive UKG’s corporate reputation and communications strategy, advising executives on high-stakes matters and shaping enterprise-wide readiness, governance, and measurement across crisis, corporate responsibility, and strategic events.
- Lead the Corporate Communications Center of Excellence to raise standards and share best practices.
- Develop reputation intelligence and measurement frameworks to inform executive counsel and strategy.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the CCO and senior executives on corporate reputation, sensitive issues, stakeholder implications, and consequential company decisions.
- Anticipate emerging reputation risks and opportunities, bringing an enterprise-wide perspective to how UKG prepares, responds, and communicates.
- Play a central leadership role in UKG’s crisis and issues communications framework, partnering with the External Communications VP and stakeholders across the company on readiness, scenarios, playbooks, escalation, and response.
- Provide communications frameworks and strategic expertise for M&A and other significant corporate events, flexing the operating model based on the needs and stakeholders of each situation.
- Set and lead UKG’s corporate responsibility communications strategy, connecting the company’s commitments and priorities to business strategy, stakeholder expectations, and reputation.
- Partner with leaders across UKG to help shape and prioritize corporate responsibility issues and commitments, bringing a communications and reputation perspective to enterprise decisions.
- Build a clear, credible corporate responsibility narrative that connects UKG’s commitments to meaningful action, measurable impact, and the broader UKG story.
- Ensure UKG communicates progress and impact with transparency and credibility, strengthening trust and long-term stakeholder value.
- Build and lead a Communications COE that raises the standard of communications across UKG through clear frameworks, governance, playbooks, tools, and best practices.
- Establish enterprise standards for narrative and messaging, communications planning, measurement, AI-enabled practices, and other foundational capabilities.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, corporate affairs, reputation, crisis and issues management, corporate responsibility, or related disciplines, including significant leadership experience.
- Demonstrated success leading complex corporate communications programs and advising senior executives on high-stakes reputation and stakeholder matters.
- Deep expertise in corporate reputation, crisis/issues communications, executive counsel, and enterprise communications strategy.
- Proven experience building or transforming communications capabilities, including governance, standards, talent, tools, and ways of working.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to assess reputational and stakeholder implications of complex company decisions.
- Exceptional executive presence, written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams, develop talent, and lead effectively through ambiguity and change.
Preferred
- Significant experience in enterprise B2B SaaS, technology, or another complex technology-driven business.
- Experience leading or partnering on corporate responsibility strategy, crisis readiness, M&A communications, and/or enterprise communications COEs.
- Experience developing reputation intelligence and communications measurement frameworks.
- Strong understanding of AI and emerging technologies and their implications for corporate reputation, communications practices, and stakeholder expectations.
UKG
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UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.
Salaries
Posted range
$184K/yr – $265K/yr
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