Senior Director, Communications

The Senior Director of Communications will be responsible for the global communications strategy, development and delivery of a broad range of corporate and marketing communications, thought leadership and public relations activities relative to the strategic direction and positioning of the market, company, products and its leadership. This individual will be an ambassador for the organization and will need to build relationships with the media, influencers and internal and external stakeholders. This leader will oversee– public relations, influencer relations, employee engagement and all social marketing for the company.

What You'll Do

• Create a communications/public relations strategy that will allow Sendoso to cultivate and enhance meaningful relationships with targeted, high-level external audiences, including the media and key influencers.
• Identify challenges and emerging issues faced by the organization. Work with the leadership team as well as staff to recognize internal and external communications opportunities and solutions.
• Build and manage both a team and agency relationships to ensure highest level of thought leadership, performance and results.
• Identify key communications trends beneficial to Sendoso.
• Represent Sendoso leadership and products to external parties.
• Recruit as needed, and manage a communications team to support the development and execution of the communications strategy.
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality.
• Mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach on a consistent basis.
• Establish and monitor staff performance and development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities.

What You'll Bring

• A minimum of 10  years’ experience and a demonstrated track record of success at an executive level performance with a fast growth company.
• Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier technology and business reporters and editors.
• Successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements.
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive, strategic communications, media relations program, social engagement to advance Sendoso’s mission and goals.
• Experience in building, mentoring, and coaching a team of communications professionals.
• Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to effectively interface with senior management and Sendoso’s Executive leadership and staff.

How You Work

• Creative and thoughtful on how an integrated brand approach can positively impact the lifecycle and consistency of communications.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills, including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
• Self-reliant, good problem solver, results oriented.
• Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs.
• Excellent and persuasive communicator.

How We work
• We work sane, sustainable and flexible working hours.• We offer “take what you need” PTO, and have a genuine, supportive culture around work life balance and boundaries. • We are consistently building, refining and automating processes to aid our work; we encourage each team member to propose and adopt new technologies, frameworks, and processes that make us more effective as an organization.• Some of us work near or in corporate offices (pandemic permitting) but many of us work remotely full time. • You are empowered to choose the environment that maximizes your happiness, engagement and ability to reach our shared goals.• We provide comprehensive benefits to reward and support our employees.      
Who We Are
Sendoso is the leading Sending Platform that delivers modern direct mail, personalized gifts, eGifts, and other Physical Impressions™ at scale. This makes it possible to build stronger, deeper, and more trusted relationships that move everything up and to the right! We’re a Series C company with $154M in venture capital funding with more than 800+ customers and 20,000 active users. Our award-winning Sending Platform connects online and offline experiences via cloud software, automation, and real-world logistics.Our mission is to help companies rise above the noise by eradicating spam and elevating relationships. Our goal is to enable businesses everywhere to make more human connections in a digital world.
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Sendoso is an equal opportunity em