Director, Corporate Communications

Responsibilities

• Develop executive presentations and communications that clearly articulate company strategy, business priorities, market insights, and key initiatives.
• Establish the communications strategy, define measurable goals, and track performance across media visibility, thought leadership engagement, share of voice, and other key outcomes.
• Prepare executives for podcasts, media interviews, speaking engagements, and other external appearances, including developing briefing presentations, materials, talking points, messaging, and interview preparation.
• Own and execute Rightworks’ corporate communications and PR strategy, aligned with company and go-to-market priorities.
• Write high-impact corporate content, including executive thought leadership, bylined articles, contributed content, company announcements, and other strategic communications.
• Develop and maintain the corporate narrative and ensure consistent messaging across external communications.
• Lead executive communications and thought leadership, including talking points, bylined articles, speaking opportunities, and other executive content.
• Lead media relations, including proactive pitching, press relationships, company announcements, and contributed content.
• Drive storytelling for key company, customer, partner, product, research, and corporate announcements.
• Partner with Product Marketing, Growth Marketing, Creative, Content, Social, Customer Marketing, and other teams to ensure integrated messaging and execution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, public relations, executive communications, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience developing corporate narratives and translating business strategy into compelling communications.
• Strong media relations experience, including building relationships with business and industry media.
• Exceptional writing, editing, storytelling, and presentation-development skills.
• Experience supporting senior executives with presentations, thought leadership, media interviews, podcasts, speaking engagements, and other external opportunities.
• Ability to operate strategically while remaining highly hands-on in execution.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, collaboration, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience managing external agencies, vendors, and communications programs.
• Strong judgment and ability to manage multiple high-priority initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in MSPs, SaaS, cloud platforms, managed technology solutions, or other B2B technology environments.

Preferred

• Experience marketing technology solutions to accounting firms or the accounting technology ecosystem.
• Background in MSPs, SaaS, or other B2B technology environments.
• Familiarity with developing communications for complex technology or business solutions.
• Proven success supporting C-suite executives and company-level thought leadership programs.
• Knowledge of reputation management and crisis communications best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to measure communications effectiveness, including media visibility, share of voice, and thought-leadership engagement.
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Journalism, Marketing, Public Relations, or a related field.

Benefits

• We offer competitive salaries to recruit the best talent. We provide company-paid short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance and a generous 401K match. We offer highly affordable medical, dental, vision coverage, and many other valuable benefits. We offer flexible PTO, and numerous paid holidays, affording you the time to be there for what is important in your life. We encourage giving back to our communities by providing paid volunteer time off. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer!