Executive Communications Lead
Samsara
USA (Remote)
$119K/yr - $212K/yrIn-houseFull-timeSenior level5+ years exp.
8 days ago
Executive Vice President, Earned Media
Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
$210K/yr – $300K/yrSenior LevelFull time
Posted 1 day ago
Job Summary
Own and lead strategic earned media and integrated communications programs across major client portfolios, shaping reputation, executive visibility, and business outcomes.
- Align strategy with client objectives across channels
- Build and mentor diverse teams and develop future leaders
- Drive cross-functional partnerships with Strategy, Creative, Analytics, and Media to deliver integrated, data-informed campaigns
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Set the strategic vision for earned media and integrated communications across major client portfolios, connecting brand and reputation priorities to business objectives.
- Serve as a trusted counselor and business partner to senior client leaders, advising on complex communications challenges, executive visibility, reputation, and high-stakes media engagement.
- Lead the development of audience-led, culturally relevant ideas that create impact across earned, social, creator, owned, paid, partnership, and emerging channels.
- Partner with Strategy, Creative, Analytics, Client Experience, and integrated media teams to deliver distinctive solutions that address marketing and broader business needs.
- Shape the choreography of ideas across channels, ensuring each touchpoint works together to maximize relevance, reach, and impact.
- Build and leverage senior relationships across media, culture, entertainment, commerce, and industry to advance client priorities and unlock new opportunities.
- Provide executive oversight for major programs, ensuring strategic rigor, exceptional storytelling, strong delivery, and data-informed optimization.
- Develop and champion thought leadership on the evolving media landscape, consumer behavior, and the future of brand-building.
- Own the financial health of assigned business, including profitability, resource planning, scope management, and productive client negotiations.
- Build, lead, and retain diverse, high-performing teams; set a clear vision, model agency values, and create an inclusive culture of accountability and collaboration.
Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured. Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms
Salaries
Posted range
$210K/yr – $300K/yr
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Marketing Team
Marketing Team Size
882 (20% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
7.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
16
People
Marketing Leadership
Anisha Ahluwalia
Global Chief Marketing Officer
At the company for 10 years 8 months
Caren Oppenheim
Senior Vice President, Brand Content Strategy
At the company for 4 years 4 months
Hee Suk Ko
Vice President, Business Marketing
At the company for 9 years 10 months
Dov Hoffman
Vice President, B2B Marketing
At the company for 4 years 2 months
Traffic Signals
Monthly Visitors
74.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.6%
Social
11.7%
Paid
0.4%
Headcount Trend
Current headcount: ~4.4K
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