Responsibilities

• Lead media relations
• Lead announcements and executive visibility
• Build thought leadership and brand presence
• Lead through milestones and moments
• Manage crisis communications
• Partner cross-functionally
• Identify and develop additional company spokespeople, shape their narratives, and pursue thought leadership opportunities that build leadership and brand momentum.
• Consolidate key talking points and presentation outlines for all executive external appearances. Define lanes for company voices and track and secure opportunities to build company visibility and strategic messaging weighted toward priority messaging.
• Identify platforms—hosted, guested, or partnered podcasts and events—that build Renew Home's authority in the energy and smart home space.
• Own strategy for the company's external social channels, ensuring consistency with the broader narrative.

Requirements

• 7+ years of communications experience, with meaningful energy-sector experience.
• Strong existing relationships with energy trade press and tier-1 financial/business journalists, ability to speak to specific reporters and outlets, not just categories of coverage.
• A strong B2B editorial mindset
• Demonstrated experience helping an early-stage or high-growth company navigate major growth milestones and communicate it externally.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, adapts quickly when approvals are delayed or plans change without losing momentum.
• Exceptional writing and spokesperson skills, comfortable being coached, and comfortable coaching others.
• A demonstrated bias toward proactive storytelling with a clear eye for risk management.
• Experience building a communications function and managing agency support.
• Exceptional crisis communication skills: rapid response, message development, stakeholder management and balanced with an instinct for staying on offense.
• Ability to work closely with go-to-market, brand, product, policy, strategy, operations and data analytics to craft a compelling narrative for our company and mission.

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.
• Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.
• Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.
• Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.