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!