Director, Corporate Communications

NineDot Energy • New York, NY

2d • $180,000 - $190,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

NineDot Energy is seeking a Director, Corporate Communications to develop and execute internal and external communication strategies that strengthen the company’s reputation, align stakeholders, and advance business objectives. The role oversees executive and employee communications, media relations, brand messaging, and change communications, ensuring clear, consistent storytelling across audiences.

The Director serves as a strategic communications advisor across the company and helps shape how NineDot communicates its vision, priorities, achievements, and impact. The role partners with senior leaders across Project Development, Community Engagement, Policy & Regulatory, Operations, Construction & Engineering, Finance, and People & Enterprise Services. The position combines strategic planning with hands-on execution in a high-growth organization and complex stakeholder environment.

The role leads corporate communications strategy, media relations and public affairs communications, executive communications, crisis and reputation management, brand content and events, and internal communications. It also manages communications agencies and tools, including the company website, CRM platform, support inbox, newsletters, and other outbound communications. The Director may serve as the company’s representative or relationship owner with selected organizations and reviews communications materials across functional areas.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, strategic communications, public affairs, or a related field.
• Proven track record managing media relations and securing meaningful earned media coverage.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level writing.
• Strong executive presence and ability to advise senior leaders.
• Ability to simplify complex technical, regulatory, and business topics for diverse audiences.
• Ability to influence colleagues and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience managing agencies, consultants, and external communications partners.
• Experience overseeing and executing social media management.
• Highly collaborative, with the ability to build strong relationships across all levels of an organization.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Core competencies include collaboration, results orientation, interpersonal savvy, innovation, financial acumen, strategic mindset, and work-process optimization.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in clean energy, infrastructure, climate technology, utilities, renewables, energy storage, or similarly regulated industries.
• Experience using WordPress and Canva.
• Advanced degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Public Policy, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a corporate communications strategy aligned with NineDot’s business objectives and growth plans.
• Build and maintain a consistent company narrative communicating its mission, market position, and impact.
• Identify opportunities to increase company visibility among industry, policy, business, and clean energy audiences, including planning communications for new regions, project types, and partners.
• Measure communications effectiveness and report on key performance indicators.
• Lead proactive and reactive media engagement and cultivate relationships with energy, climate, infrastructure, business, and local media outlets.
• Develop press releases, media pitches, briefing materials, press statements, and award applications.
• Advise on communications for project announcements, market developments, regulatory matters, company milestones, public affairs, policy initiatives, and community engagement.
• Manage company media interactions, including preparing and supporting spokespeople and serving as a spokesperson when appropriate.
• Partner with executive leadership to develop presentations, talking points, opinion pieces, panel remarks, and internal messages.
• Position company leaders as trusted voices in clean energy, grid modernization, and energy storage; prepare them for interviews, conferences, public appearances, and stakeholder meetings.
• Support investor communications, including board decks and updates, in partnership with the Chief of Staff.
• Develop and maintain crisis communications plans and protocols; advise during sensitive business, operational, regulatory, or community-related issues and monitor emerging reputational risks.
• Lead corporate marketing events from strategy and planning through execution and improvement, including program management, staffing, budgeting, and on-site execution.
• Oversee corporate content such as articles, case studies, white papers, announcements, and executive bylines, as well as content for the website, social media, and other platforms.
• Identify speaking engagements, awards, industry recognition, and thought leadership opportunities.
• Steward the company’s visual and verbal brand identity, communications templates, presentation standards, and brand assets.
• Lead and support event planning, including internal events, community outreach events with the Community Engagement team, and site tours with the Operations team.
• Partner with People Operations to strengthen employee communications and engagement and help employees understand company priorities, milestones, and strategic objectives.
• Support leadership communications during company growth and organizational change.
• Manage the web and digital marketing agency, oversee updates and new web content and collateral, and handle basic website updates directly.
• Manage the public affairs agency communications team for targeted support and strategic input.
• Manage the company CRM platform, including contact capture, data cleanup and categorization, audience segmentation, newsletters, and news flashes.
• Manage the company support inbox, responding to web form contacts or coordinating with colleagues, generally within 24–48 hours.
• Act as the company’s lead representative or relationship owner for selected organizations as needed.
• Review materials from functional areas, including financing documents, partner communications, ESG reports, board decks, and public agency case studies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 5% employer match on 401(k) retirement account.
• 20 paid vacation days, 7 sick days, 9 federal holidays, and 3 personal floating holidays.
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers within the first year of birth or adoption.
• Wellness initiatives, including a $1,000 stipend.
• 16 volunteer hours and two planned company-wide volunteer outings per year.

What This Job Offers

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