Sr. Manager, Executive Communications
$144,400–$192,800 year
On-siteSan Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Support executive communications for key companywide initiatives, ensuring leaders are equipped with clear, consistent, and compelling messaging that connects enterprise priorities to employee understanding and action. Produce and support major enterprise-wide leadership communications moments, including multi-day senior leadership meetings, global town halls, executive forums, and other high-visibility internal events. Serve as the communications and content lead for these large-scale meetings, driving content flow, agenda development, speaker strategy, messaging, presentation narrative, and follow-up communications. Develop agendas, speaker briefs, executive prep materials, run-of-show inputs, key messages, talking points, scripts, Q&A, and post-event communications. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure leadership meetings have a clear narrative arc and strong speaker preparation. Create executive-ready materials including leader toolkits and internal announcements. Apply AI and automation thoughtfully to improve communications operations, including content development workflows and message versioning. Serve as a trusted communications advisor who anticipates needs, identifies risks, and helps leaders communicate with clarity and authenticity. Manage multiple priorities across fast-moving initiatives while maintaining high standards for quality, accuracy, and discretion. Use data and employee insights to evaluate communications effectiveness and continuously improve programs.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in executive communications, internal communications, corporate communications, employee communications, change communications, leadership communications, corporate event content production, or a related field
- Experience planning and driving enterprise-wide initiatives, transformation efforts, business priorities, or cross-functional programs with high visibility and business impact
- Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex business topics simple, compelling, and employee-relevant
- Experience supporting senior executives and preparing leaders for companywide forums, employee meetings, leadership engagements, global town halls, business updates, and organizational change moments
- Strong experience producing leadership communications programs and large corporate meetings, including agenda development, content flow, speaker preparation, presentation content, talking points, scripts, briefing materials, Q&A, run-of-show inputs, and follow-up communications
- Experience supporting large-scale leadership meetings, executive forums, or internal events, with the ability to connect event objectives, business priorities, audience needs, and executive messaging into a cohesive content strategy
- Ability to build trusted relationships across functions and levels, connecting dots between leadership priorities, employee sentiment, business needs, and organizational context
- A strategic mindset combined with strong operational discipline; you can define the communications approach and also drive the work through to execution
- Comfort using AI tools and emerging technologies to improve quality, speed, consistency, and efficiency in communications workflows
- Ability to wear multiple hats in a dynamic environment, shifting between strategist, writer, advisor, project manager, operator, producer, and problem-solver
- Remote roles are not eligible for U.S. visa sponsorship
Desired Qualifications
- A builder's mindset, using AI and emerging tools to create more efficient, repeatable, and effective communications systems
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