Director of Communications
Skills
Crisis SEditorialExecutive-LevelIT EscalationJournalismMeasurementsMedia Relations
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications Journalism Public Relations Marketing or related field
- 6+ years of progressive communications experience in corporate agency hospitality or similarly fast-paced organization
- Exceptional writing editing and storytelling skills
- Proven success in crisis communications and issues management
- Experience developing and leading enterprise or integrated communications strategies
- Deep expertise in executive internal and media relations communications
- Experience managing external public relations agencies or communications partners
- Strong strategic thinking business acumen attention to detail and sound judgment
- Ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
- Interest in social media artificial intelligence search and generative engine optimization
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
Nice to have
- Strategic thinker
- Detail-oriented
- Relationship-builder
- Sound judgment
- Collaborative
Day to day
- Leads enterprise communications strategy across internal external executive crisis media and reputation channels
- Develops crisis communications and issues management plans including messaging executive counsel escalation and response coordination
- Shapes storytelling executive messaging thought leadership and organizational announcements while advising senior leaders and cross functional partners