Communications Director
About The Position
Atoms is seeking a senior communications leader to oversee the portfolio-wide communications strategy across its Food, Mining, and Transport businesses. This role involves building a cohesive public narrative for a company operating in diverse industries. The Communications Director will set the strategy for Atoms' presence in trade, business, and new media, manage a network of specialized agencies and operators, and advise leadership on media sequencing and timing. The ideal candidate will have experience building a communications function from the ground up in a high-growth, regulated environment, reporting directly to leadership, and unifying multifaceted business narratives.
Requirements
- 10+ years in communications, including direct experience building a comms function from zero at a high-growth company in a regulated or partnership-dependent industry.
- Track record of reporting directly into leadership as a strategic advisor.
- Experience across the full spectrum of comms work: product launches, funding announcements, executive comms, crisis response, internal comms.
- Experience managing a portfolio of boutique agency relationships in parallel.
- Judgment to manage several distinct narratives simultaneously without creating a generic voice.
- Sound instincts for substance-forward, low-combativeness media strategy, understanding the downside of an adversarial press strategy for a partnership- and regulatory-dependent business.
- Existing relationships in one or more of: restaurant tech, industrial/mining press, robotics and deep tech, or business/finance trade media.
- Experience building new-media placement strategy for founders or executives.
Responsibilities
- Own the company-wide moment calendar, sequencing partnership announcements, fundraises, key hires, and first-site or product launches to create a coherent story.
- Build and manage the vertical media network, recruiting and overseeing boutique agencies and operators embedded in each industry's press ecosystem.
- Lead new-media strategy, identifying and securing placements on relevant podcasts, shows, and events for each vertical's audience.
- Set channel and tier strategy, utilizing the newsroom as a system of record, blog/Perspectives for narrative, and company LinkedIn for amplification.
- Drive customer-forward storytelling, structuring press moments where customers speak directly about their growth.
- Advise leadership on the timing, framing, and risk of major public moments, considering regulatory and partnership consequences.
- Own internal communications across four distinct businesses, ensuring employees are informed about major news, partnerships, hires, and launches.
- Develop a crisis management playbook with response strategies for realistic risk scenarios across each vertical.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Discretionary vacation days
- 8 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time
- Paid Bereavement leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- Equity awards
- Annual performance-based bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
