Senior Manager, Public Relations

Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

$180K/yr – $215K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive regional PR strategy and execution for ALSO in the Americas, owning end-to-end plans and high-impact earned media.

  • Own regional PR strategy, messaging, and narrative in the Americas.
  • Must-have: 8–10+ years in top-tier agencies or in-house tech/ mobility PR with proven results.
  • Standout: Experience coordinating global toolkit-led campaigns and cross-time-zone media events.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partner with communications leadership to help define ALSO’s global PR strategy, messaging, and narrative.
  • Translate global priorities into clear, actionable plans across the Americas, owning end-to-end execution and results across the region, ensuring high-quality, consistent output.
  • Lead a steady drumbeat of announcements, including funding, partnerships, product launches, and company milestones.
  • Run an efficient always-on press office—including product seeding, product reviews cycles, seasonal/cultural PR moments, and signature story placements.
  • Lead media events, tailoring for cultural fit while leveraging global toolkits. Oversee logistics including spokesperson prep, supplier management, guest list curation, and agency coordination.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with media and cultural stakeholders across the Americas to maximize earned opportunities.
  • Optimize agency and vendor mix, ensuring resourcing is efficient and fit for purpose across the region.
  • Manage the regional budget—allocating resources effectively and tracking spend against plan.
  • Track, measure, and report results, working with global teams to demonstrate clear ROI and apply learnings.
  • Stay ahead of media, cultural, and industry trends, making proactive recommendations to increase ALSO’s visibility and differentiation and keep ALSO culturally relevant.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience spanning top-tier PR agencies and in-house roles at high-growth or category-defining companies.
  • Strategic and execution-focused: You’re comfortable contributing to strategy while owning execution and outcomes end-to-end
  • Exceptional storyteller: You can distill complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives that resonate externally.
  • Strong media operator: You have experience working with top-tier business, tech, and/or policy media and know how to generate meaningful coverage.
  • Trusted partner: You build strong relationships cross-functionally and can effectively support and advise cross-functional partners and key stakeholders.
  • Composed under pressure: You bring sound judgment and a calm, solutions-oriented mindset in fast-moving or ambiguous situations.
  • High standards, low ego: You care deeply about quality and elevate the work of those around you.
  • Resourceful and driven: You move quickly, take ownership, and consistently find ways to deliver results.
  • Mission-aligned: You’re excited about shaping a new category and helping define the future of autonomy and urban mobility.
  • Relationship Focus: ability to build relationships cross-functionally and across different time zones.

Preferred

  • Passion for brands that include small EVs, cycling, outdoors, health and wellness is a plus.

Benefits

  • Robust health coverage. Excellent health, dental and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO with FSA & HSA options.
  • One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
  • Rich fertility and family building benefits with Progyny.
  • Flexible time off.
  • 401(k) match.
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ALSO.

We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company originally conceived as a part of Rivian. We’re a passionate team of builders, dreamers, doers and innovators, focused on creating entirely new (not to mention, innovative and delightful) vertically integrated, small EVs designed to meet the global mobility challenges of today and tomorrow. Said another way, ALSO is a new set of solutions to a common set of challenges around transportation. Our mission is to inspire everyone to ride also—replacing many local car, truck and SUV miles with ones on vehicles that are more affordable, more enjoyable and 10-50x more efficient.

Founded in 2025
Palo Alto, California, USA
198 employees (13 in marketing)