Responsibilities

• Leadership: Support and build a high-performance, winning corporate culture through communications strategies and executions that support L&W’s Purpose, People, and Products.
• Lead a small, distributed team across time zones, providing coaching and development, allocating capacity across a broad remit, and building the team’s AI capability.
• Strategic Communications: Partner with the SVP and senior leaders to develop and execute integrated global corporate communications strategies, including key performance metrics and well-coordinated programs that reinforce the company’s business objectives.
• Partner with Marketing and relevant business stakeholders to develop and execute social media communications as a key corporate communications pillar, ensuring alignment of messaging, timing, tone, and channel strategy.
• Identify and utilize the best mix of communications channels, taking a proactive versus reactive approach to messaging.
• Ensure strong messaging control by speaking with one consistent voice while maintaining a distinct brand voice.
• Build media relations, outreach, and targeting strategies.
• Hands-On Execution: Support and execute the L&W messaging strategy around its position as a leading cross-platform global games company.
• Manage the master communications calendar to coordinate multiple media opportunities and projects, ensure consistency, and report progress to key stakeholders.
• Write, edit, and distribute clear, concise, and engaging communications across internal and external audiences and formats, including email and video.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, public relations, internal communications, media relations, or a related field, including a proven track record of delivering impactful internal and external communications.
• Significant experience in positively handling high-profile communications issues, demonstrating sound judgment, and persuasive counseling to senior management.
• Exceptional writing and editing skills and are comfortable conceiving, writing, and editing messaging in a variety of formats. This includes materials such as speeches, scripts, op-eds, news articles, books, digital content, or other strategic messaging documents.
• Experience leading, developing, and motivating communications professionals, as well as building effective partnerships across a complex organization.

Preferred

• Previous experience in games, real-money and/or free-to-play
• Marketing and branding experience
• Strong record of nurturing positive relationships with senior editors and reporters of domestic and international news organizations and be able to develop and nurture relationships with front-line and senior management.
• Previous experience in political campaign communications and/or in a public information role
• Demonstrated, hands-on use of AI tools in a communications function, with examples of measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, or team output.