Manager Communications Planning

Framingham, MA (On-site)

$130K/yr – $179K/yrManager6+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and orchestrate integrated communications from upfront planning to post-launch optimization, aligning cross-functional teams and channels to deliver cohesive messaging and measurable impact.

  • Lead the activation architecture across functions, channels, markets, and consumer touchpoints.
  • Define launch plans, sequencing, readiness, and investment priorities in line with business goals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated communications strategies grounded in business objectives, product positioning, audience insights, brand priorities, and success metrics.
  • Define the communications challenge, audience journey, customer-relevant narrative, messaging hierarchy, channel roles, and moments that matter.
  • Translate product features, claims, and reasons to believe into clear messaging architectures and activation guidance.
  • Identify strategic gaps and trade-offs early, ensuring key upstream decisions are aligned before channel planning begins.
  • Own the integrated activation architecture and maintain a single source of truth across functions, channels, markets, and consumer touchpoints.
  • Define launch phasing, channel sequencing, planning milestones, dependencies, and readiness requirements.
  • Align messaging, timing, and execution across Media, PR, Social, CRM, eCommerce, Retail, Partnerships, and other activation teams.
  • Partner with Media, Commercial, and activation teams to recommend investment priorities aligned to launch objectives and channel roles.
  • Protect the integrity of the communications strategy throughout execution, resolving integration or consumer-experience gaps as they arise.
  • Connect upstream product, brand, audience, and commercial strategy to downstream channel and market execution.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in integrated marketing, communications planning, brand strategy, or a related field.
  • Experience translating business, product, brand, audience, and commercial priorities into integrated communications strategies.
  • Strong ability to define communications challenges, audience journeys, messaging architectures, channel roles, and launch plans.
  • Experience developing customer-relevant narratives from product features, claims, and reasons to believe.
  • Strong understanding of launch phasing, cross-channel orchestration, readiness planning, investment prioritization, and measurement.
  • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
  • Strong strategic thinking, facilitation, and communication skills, with the ability to balance rigor with executional practicality.
  • Comfort working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with evolving priorities and multiple activation partners.

Benefits

  • In addition to competitive base pay we offer rewards including bonus programs, comprehensive health and welfare benefits, a 401(k) plan, plus exclusive perks designed to support your wellbeing, and a generous employee discount where you can immerse yourself in our products and experiences.
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Bose Corporation

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Bose Corporation was founded in 1964 by Dr. Amar G. Bose, then a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Today, the company is driven by its founding principles, investing in long-term research with one fundamental goal: to develop new technologies with real customer benefits. Bose innovations have spanned decades and industries, creating and transforming categories in audio and beyond. Bose products for the home, in the car, on the go and in public spaces have become iconic, changing the way people listen to music.832029-0010B

Founded in 2023
Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
6.7K employees (478 in marketing)
68% recommend to a friend
73% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
9.3M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
44.9%
Direct
46.1%
Referral
5.5%
Social
1.8%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
324 (5% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
4

Funding

Total Funding
$430.2K
Last Raise
$430.2K
Equity Crowdfunding, 8 years ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2017
    Equity Crowdfunding • $430.2K

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