Senior Corporate Communications Manager

Guild

1d • $130,000 - $149,100 • Remote

About The Position

Guild is hiring a Senior Manager on its Corporate Communications team. The Senior Manager will support the strategy and manage the day-to-day execution of Guild’s Corporate Communication function in order to drive GTM efforts and accelerate growth. The Senior Manager will specifically be responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for executive communications, and play a key role in strengthening awareness of Guild in target markets and the public sector.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, or strategic communications, ideally in B2B, technology, workforce, or policy
• Proven experience supporting senior executives, including direct CEO communications support
• Established media relationships and a track record of securing meaningful, tier 1 coverage
• Comfort operating at both the strategic and executional levels, setting direction while also rolling up your sleeves in fast-moving, high-visibility environments
• Strong cross-functional mindset with the ability to influence and manage multiple stakeholders
• Exceptional writing and editing skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, compelling narratives
• Account or client management experience
• Calm, proactive, and flexible approach to work

Responsibilities

• Contribute to overarching corporate messaging, narratives, and positioning
• Identify, pitch, and secure proactive PR tied to company milestones, research, partnerships, and market moments to advance Guild’s narrative
• Cultivate relationships with top tier business reporters and those in key verticals
• Respond to press inquiries and serve as on-the-record spokesperson for Guild
• Support issues monitoring, risk assessment, and crisis communications
• Stay on top of news trends and stories related to Guild’s work
• Provide communications support to the CEO and broader Executive Team, across messaging, thought leadership, media, social, and speaking opportunities
• Develop and manage a spokesperson bench strategy, preparing executives, internal experts, and customer champions for media and speaking opportunities
• Partner cross-functionally to scale a customer evangelist spokesperson program to amplify customer voices in media, social, events, and thought leadership
• Collaborate with public sector and policy teams to develop clear, credible points of view on funding, workforce development, and relevant initiatives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with policy and public sector reporters.
• Drive proactive storytelling in partnership with public sector and policy partners, resulting in earned media, thought leadership, and speaking opportunities

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees