Manager, External Corporate Communications

USA (Remote)

$82K/yr – $129K/yrManager4+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and execute cross-functional communications for FICO Scores, driving media relations, executive visibility, and timely storytelling across launches and initiatives.

  • Lead content creation across press, blogs, briefings, and talking points.
  • Coordinate executive interviews, panels, and external engagements.
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, legal, marketing, and sales to align messaging with business priorities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support development and execution of communications strategies across FICO Scores business priorities, with the flexibility to support lender, consumer, and policy-related initiatives.
  • Support proactive and responsive media relations.
  • Build and maintain relationships with relevant reporters; develop pitches, coordinate responses to inbound inquiries, and help identify timely media opportunities.
  • Create a high volume of clear, compelling content, including press releases, media pitches, bylined articles, blog posts, Q&As, talking points, presentations, briefing documents, social content, and internal communications.
  • Develop executive visibility opportunities and content, including point-of-view platforms, speaking submissions, event preparation, contributed content, social posts, and media engagement materials.
  • Prepare and support executives and subject matter experts for interviews, speeches, panels, podcasts, briefings, and other external engagements.
  • Work closely with product, analytics, legal, marketing, sales, and other cross-functional partners to ensure communications are accurate, coordinated, and aligned with business priorities.
  • Monitor media coverage, policy conversations, competitor activity, and industry trends to identify storytelling opportunities and flag emerging issues or reputational risks.
  • Support communications planning and execution for launches, research reports, partnerships, events, and other business milestones.
  • Manage assigned projects from planning through execution, keeping workstreams organized, stakeholders informed, and deliverables on schedule.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Political Science, or a related field.
  • 4–7+ years of experience in communications, media relations, public affairs, public relations, or a related field; experience in financial services, fintech, technology, or another highly regulated industry is strongly preferred.
  • Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce polished content across formats, audiences, and executive voices.
  • Experience supporting media relations and developing relationships with business, trade, financial, policy, or consumer reporters.
  • Experience developing executive communications and visibility programs, including thought leadership, speaking support, social content, and briefing materials.
  • Ability to understand complex or technical information quickly and translate it into clear, accurate, audience-appropriate communications.
  • Comfort working across multiple subject areas and shifting priorities without losing attention to detail or message consistency.
  • Strong project-management skills and demonstrated ability to move work from concept through execution in a collaborative environment.
  • Sound judgment and the ability to navigate sensitive, legal, regulatory, or reputational considerations.
  • Experience using PR tools such as Muck Rack for media monitoring, outreach, and reporting.

Benefits

  • An inclusive culture strongly reflecting our core values: Act Like an Owner, Delight Our Customers, and Earn the Respect of Others.
  • The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
  • Highly competitive compensation, benefits, and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
  • An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
  • The targeted base pay range for this role is: $81,900 to $128,700 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
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FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency. Learn more at www.fico.com.

Founded in 1956
Bozeman, Montana, USA
3.8K employees (124 in marketing)
84% recommend to a friend
91% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$82K/yr – $129K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$2.5B
Last Raise
$1B
Post IPO Debt, 5 days ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $1B
  • May 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.5B

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
282.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39%
Direct
49%
Referral
9.9%
Social
0.9%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.8K

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