Senior Manager, Public Relations & Communications

Neara•New York, NY

3d•$150,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Neara is hiring a hands-on communications leader to own its US communications strategy and execution. The role turns the company’s technology, customer and societal impact, and proprietary perspective into stories that matter to customers, policymakers, partners, investors, prospective talent, and people who depend on critical infrastructure. The person in this role will develop stories and campaigns end to end—from identifying the angle and sharpening the thesis to writing, pitching reporters, preparing spokespeople, and securing coverage. This is not primarily an agency-management role; the successful candidate will personally own the ideas, output, and relationships that drive impact. The role will build Neara’s authority across relevant stakeholders and strategic conversations, establish a distinctive and consistent storytelling pipeline, cultivate journalist and industry relationships, and develop a diverse bench of credible US spokespeople. It will also create a rapid-response process for timely commentary, build cross-functional partnerships to surface externally relevant insights, apply rigorous editorial and reputational judgment, and define impact metrics tied to narrative penetration, coverage quality, and strategic influence.

Requirements

Experience in communications, public relations, or journalism, with substantive ownership of media strategy and execution for a high-growth technology, AI, infrastructure, or similarly complex company.
Hands-on experience developing stories and pitching reporters, with success securing high-quality coverage in competitive media environments.
Exceptional writing and editing skills, including the ability to make complex ideas clear and urgent without overstating them.
Strong news judgment and comfort challenging senior stakeholders.
Strong commercial instincts and the ability to connect communications work to market positioning and pipeline relevance.
A proactive, creative approach to developing stories and maintaining a consistent storytelling drumbeat.
Ability to build trusted journalist relationships and make spokespeople genuinely useful sources.
Intellectual curiosity and willingness to build fluency in emerging technology categories and deeply technical, regulated, or sensitive topics.
Ability to work with urgency amid ambiguity and build momentum without perfect conditions.

Nice To Haves

Existing relationships across technology, AI, and critical infrastructure media.
Experience in AI-heavy, critical infrastructure, highly regulated, or politically sensitive subject matter.

Responsibilities

Create a differentiated pipeline of media campaigns informed by internal and external data and developments, customer outcomes, and major industry inflection points.
Develop and lead a distinctive US communications strategy that builds Neara’s authority and connects its work to relevant industry shifts, news, and debates.
Build and maintain meaningful relationships with journalists and industry voices.
Cultivate a strong and diverse US spokesperson bench, positioning and coaching spokespeople and preparing them for interviews and speaking opportunities.
Personally brainstorm, write, and pitch stories, contributed op-eds, reactive newsjacking commentary, and other external communications.
Build a rapid-response newsjacking process that enables time-poor colleagues to contribute useful, differentiated commentary in time-sensitive contexts.
Build cross-functional partnerships to translate observations and proprietary insight into timely, externally resonant stories.
Curate and distribute a news pipeline that colleagues across the organization are expected to understand.
Apply editorial and reputational judgment, including rejecting content that is not newsworthy and claims that require further substantiation.
Create impact metrics tied to narrative penetration, coverage quality, strategic influence, and relevance.