Senior Director of Communications (United States)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$200K/yr – $220K/yrSenior Level15+ years exp

Posted 23 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own Karat's integrated communications strategy and execution across media, executive platforms, and high‑stakes moments, partnering with Product Marketing and Demand Generation to turn product milestones into compelling narratives.

Lead media relations and executive communications
Oversee campaigns, CEO platform, and crisis/issues response
Manage agency partners and measure outcomes

Job Description

Responsibilities

Set and evolve Karat's integrated communications strategy, advising the CEO and leadership team on narrative, messaging, timing, and stakeholder impact.
Own media relations end-to-end, building proactive relationships with journalists and producers across business, technology, workplace, and trade press.
Develop integrated campaigns with Product Marketing and Demand Generation that turn thought leadership, research, and product milestones into stories that break through.
Build and run the CEO's platform across social, the company blog, earned media, and speaking opportunities, including the executive editorial calendar.
Lead internal and executive communications for major company moments, keeping employee-facing and external narratives aligned.
Guide crisis and issues communications, coordinating response across Legal, People, Sales, and Marketing as needed.
Manage our PR agency and other communications partners to measurable outcomes, tracking KPIs across earned media, executive visibility, and employee understanding.

Requirements

This position is only available to candidates residing in the following U.S. states: CA, FL, IL, MA, MO, NY, OR, TX, and WA.
15+ years of progressive communications experience spanning media relations, corporate, executive, and internal/change communications
Significant in-house experience at a high-growth technology or B2B company navigating rapid growth
A track record of building journalist relationships and securing high-quality earned coverage
Demonstrated success developing narratives and campaigns that connect strategy, product, and industry conversation
Experience building executive platforms and coaching executives for media, speaking engagements, and high-stakes moments
Exceptional writing and editorial judgment, from executive social content to all-hands remarks
Experience guiding communications through periods of growth or high-stakes change, with discretion and sound judgment
Experience managing PR agencies or communications partners to measurable outcomes

karat

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Karat is the talent elevation partner that helps technical leaders transform their workforce as AI reshapes essential skillsets. We help companies like Citi, PayPal, and Duolingo evaluate and benchmark engineering talent rigorously, consistently, and at scale. Our system then turns those evaluations into insights that help leaders build a more capable and competitive workforce. Karat’s interviews are designed with best-in-class methodologies and live AI-native scenarios, consistently delivered by experienced Interview Engineers. With intelligence from more than 600,000 technical evaluations, leaders gain deep understanding of their workforce capabilities, competitive perspective, and confidence that standards are being met to thrive in the Human + AI era. Learn more at karat.com.

Founded in 2014

Seattle, Washington, USA

402 employees (18 in marketing)

www.karat.com

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