Corporate Media Relations Manager

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Spring, TX

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Corporate Media Relations Manager to shape corporate technology and business stories and support HPE’s business priorities, reputation, and market leadership. The role develops corporate media strategies, leads earned-media efforts around major corporate milestones, identifies enterprise-level stories, and builds relationships with influential business and financial journalists. It also coaches C-suite executives in media engagement and advises them on reputation matters.

The manager oversees strategic media programs from planning through execution and reporting, supports proactive storytelling campaigns and product-launch coverage, and ensures quality executive messaging, briefings, and interview materials. The position measures media outcomes, maintains company-wide media relations assets, supports agency work, and collaborates across global, product, and business functions. It directly manages and develops a team, setting objectives and performance expectations while fostering creativity, collaboration, and accountability.

The role is hybrid, with an average of two days per week required in an HPE office. HPE describes its benefits as supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing and provides programs for personal and professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Media Relations, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 12 or more years of experience in media relations, corporate communications, or a related field for large, publicly traded companies.
• Direct people-management experience and demonstrated ability to coach and develop high-performing teams.
• Demonstrated success securing meaningful coverage with national business, financial, or technology media.
• Experience developing proactive corporate communications strategies and managing communications programs collaboratively in a matrixed environment.
• Strong understanding of business journalism, financial reporting cycles, and corporate reputation management.
• Highly adept writing and editing skills.
• Exceptional storytelling skills and the ability to set strategies and execute them.
• Strong judgment, executive presence, initiative, ownership, and adaptability.
• AI fluency.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with the technology industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute corporate media strategies that support HPE’s business priorities, reputation, and market leadership.
• Lead media strategy and earned-media pitching for corporate milestones, including quarterly earnings, investor days, board appointments, and executive leadership changes, in partnership with Financial Communications and Investor Relations.
• Identify and develop enterprise-level stories connecting HPE’s leadership in AI, networking, hybrid cloud, and computing to wider business and industry trends.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with influential business and financial journalists at national and international outlets.
• Coach C-suite executives to engage with the media.
• Identify reputational opportunities and risks and develop strategic communications recommendations to address or mitigate them.
• Manage HPE’s reputation with media stakeholders, ensuring appropriate internal alignment and escalation.
• Advise C-suite executives on strategic reputation matters in collaboration with Corporate Communications colleagues.
• Plan media opportunities around recurring corporate moments and proactive storytelling campaigns for technology and business audiences.
• Oversee strategic corporate media programs from inception through pitching, preparation, execution, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Media Relations colleagues to turn product launches into opportunities with wider business and financial press.
• Ensure high standards in executive messaging, media briefings, and interview materials.
• Measure media outcomes and use results to improve corporate media relations impact.
• Manage company-wide media relations asset libraries.
• Assist in managing communications agencies that support media relations.
• Collaborate across global, product, and business functions.
• Directly manage, coach, and develop the corporate media relations team through mentoring, delegation, career planning, and professional growth opportunities.
• Set clear objectives and performance expectations and provide regular feedback.
• Build an environment that encourages creativity, initiative, collaboration, and accountability.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits intended to support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Programs to support personal and professional development and career goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager