Issues Communications Manager (Dallas)

Texas Instruments • Dallas, TX

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Issues Communications Manager is responsible for driving the issues communications strategy and response process at TI while also promoting and protecting the company’s reputation as part of the Corporate Communications team. This role ensures TI’s corporate story and message is clear and consistent across various audiences and will evolve, grow and maintain TI's crisis communications playbooks and processes. A successful candidate must demonstrate experienced critical thinking and an ability to effectively collaborate across teams and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. This role offers deep knowledge of internal and external crisis and issues management communications, response strategies and TI’s business continuity program and processes, high-visibility relationships with senior leaders and functional experts across the company to partner on issues management strategies and messaging across a range of topics, people management experience, and experience understanding and influencing TI’s corporate communications strategy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, and/or related field
• 5+ years of experience in corporate communications
• Issues and crisis communications experience strongly preferred

Nice To Haves

• Self-starter with a high degree of initiative and the ability to manage multiple tasks, work calmly and confidently under pressure and meet dynamic deadlines as required
• High level of professionalism and discretion in handling confidential information
• Excellent communication and execution skills, heightened attention to detail and excellent message development skills.
• Must be flexible in dealing with changing priorities
• Prior experience managing agency partners or people leadership
• Prior semiconductor experience or experience in B2B, manufacturing and high tech
• Solid organizational and leadership skills
• Experience working globally and with colleagues in multiple locations

Responsibilities

• Drive TI’s issues and crisis communications strategy: lead day-to-day management of issues triage and response, including situation assessment, executive updates, messaging development and deployment across channels and audiences.
• Lead issues communications team and drive external issues agency coordination.
• Optimize TI’s crisis communications processes and playbooks; train communicators, executives and other stakeholders on their role in the event of an issue or crisis.
• Draft proactive and reactive messaging, statements and content for various audiences, both internal and external, on short deadlines.
• Counsel leaders and functional experts on recommended approach for responding to issues.
• Continually assess the media and policy landscape, analyzing news for trends that would influence TI and proactively provide recommendations.
• Represent Communications on cross-functional teams, including TI’s Incident Command Team.
• Respond to intermittent or unexpected issues as they occur and develop effective communications response with urgency.

What This Job Offers

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