Senior Manager or Director, Technology Communications

Responsibilities

• Help lead communications strategy and execution across a portfolio of technology clients, taking on greater strategic and client leadership responsibility based on experience and performance.
• Develop and execute media relations strategies that translate client business and policy priorities into timely, credible stories for business, technology, policy, and trade media.
• Build and maintain relationships with reporters, editors, producers, podcast hosts, and other influential voices; identify news hooks and pursue opportunities with creativity, persistence, and sound editorial judgment.
• Lead communications around funding rounds, partnerships, product launches, executive milestones, policy developments, and other moments that can materially affect a company's trajectory.
• Build communications infrastructure for clients with limited internal capacity, including messaging, media materials, editorial calendars, workflows, and measurement.
• Counsel founders and C-suite executives, with increasing independence, on reputation management, market positioning, crisis preparedness, stakeholder engagement, and high-stakes communications moments.
• Develop integrated campaigns that connect earned media, executive positioning, thought leadership, digital channels, and public affairs to clients' business objectives.
• Collaborate across communications, government relations, public affairs, research, and digital strategy, and contribute to new-business research, proposals, and pitches.

Requirements

• Seven or more years of strategic communications and media relations experience, with level determined by the scope, independence, and leadership demonstrated; agency experience and work with technology or high-growth companies strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success developing media strategies, identifying strong stories, pitching reporters, and converting ideas into meaningful coverage and relationships.
• Strong media instincts and a genuine desire to deepen expertise in media relations, executive positioning, and issues management.
• Fluency in the pace and constraints of startups and other high-growth companies, with the resourcefulness to produce strong work with small teams and imperfect information.
• The ability to manage several client relationships and workstreams without losing command of details, deadlines, or strategic priorities.
• Existing relationships with technology, business, policy, national security, or trade media, combined with the initiative to build new relationships continuously.
• Exceptional intellectual curiosity and the ability to quickly master complex technologies, business models, and policy environments, then translate them into clear and compelling narratives.
• A strategic and creative problem-solver who anticipates client needs, generates original ideas, and finds another route when an obvious approach stalls.
• Strong judgment about how earned media, podcasts, newsletters, social channels, events, and emerging formats can work together to reach specific audiences.
• Proficiency with artificial intelligence tools and curiosity about how emerging capabilities can improve research, analysis, quality control, and client service.

Preferred

• agency experience and work with technology or high-growth companies strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus based on individual performance and that of the firm
• Commissions on new business development
• Robust medical, dental, and vision plans with employer HSA contributions
• Generous retirement matching
• Educational assistance
• Professional development assistance
• Unlimited time off
• Other benefits