Senior Manager, Public Relations & Communications

Responsibilities

• Create a differentiated pipeline of media campaigns, drawing on a combination of internal and external data and developments, customer outcomes, and major industry inflection points.
• Develop and lead a distinctive US communications strategy that builds Neara’s authority across all relevant stakeholders, establishing Neara as a leading voice in the strategic conversations we care about by clearly identifying and executing opportunities to connect our work to relevant industry shifts, news, and debates.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and industry voices across the conversations we care about.
• Cultivate a strong and diverse US spokesperson bench, positioning and coaching spokespeople as compelling, credible, and genuinely useful sources, helping stress-test their POVs, prepare them for interviews, speaking opportunities, etc.
• Personally brainstorm, write, and pitch stories, contributed op-eds, reactive newsjacking commentary, and other external communications.
• Build a process to support rapid-response newsjacking that allows time-poor people to contribute useful, differentiated commentary in time-sensitive contexts.
• Build strong internal cross-functional partnerships to translate your own observations and proprietary insight into timely, externally resonant stories.
• Curate and distribute news pipeline in which people across the organization should be expected to be conversant.
• Apply rigorous editorial and reputational judgment, including rejecting content proposed internally that does not qualify as news and claims that require further substantiation.
• Create clear impact metrics tied to narrative penetration, quality of coverage and strategic influence and relevance.

Requirements

• Experience in communications, public relations, or journalism with substantive ownership of media strategy and execution for a high-growth technology, AI, infrastructure or company with similarly complex subject matter.
• You love to be hands-on personally developing stories, pitching reporters and have been successful securing high-quality coverage in competitive media environments.
• You are an exceptional writer and editor who can make complex ideas clear and urgent without overstating them.
• You have strong news judgment and are comfortable challenging senior stakeholders.
• You have strong commercial instincts and can connect your work to elevating market positioning and pipeline relevance.

Preferred

• Existing relationships across technology and AI and critical infrastructure media are a strong advantage but most importantly you must clearly show you know how to build them.
• Experience in AI-heavy, critical infrastructure and highly regulated / politically sensitive adjacent subject matter is a plus.