We are looking for a Sr. Manager, PR & Communications to significantly accelerate our brand awareness. This opportunity is a key role within the marketing team, and you will be the driving force behind Hotel Engine’s overall voice, media relations and communications. 

You are an outstanding storyteller with a deep understanding of public relations strategies and have previously scaled a brand’s voice globally. You will drive and execute the company’s overall PR & communications strategy, create great stories for our brand, manage internal communications with our CEO and executive team, and support global brand campaigns. If you are agile, nimble, obsessed with communications, brand, building great stories, and passionate about travel, and have bias to action we want to talk to you 😉 

Here's what you'll do: 

• Connect Hotel Engine’s business goals into actionable corporate communications strategy that achieves objectives
• Define and execute the corporate narrative, ensuring consistent messaging and positioning with internal and external stakeholders
• Define the Hotel Engine news agenda and partner with subject matter experts across the company to uncover storytelling opportunities
• Develop and own relationships with the media and key influencers locally and nationally
• Manage external partners/firm(s) by providing compelling insights, pitch angles, and clear goals that align with business needs
• Oversee the analyst and influencer relations strategy, with an emphasis on relationship building and collaboration
• Manage all internal communications aligned with our CEO and executive team
• Elevate the voice of the CEO and other executive team members through media interviews, speaking opportunities, and social media engagement
• Advise and coach Hotel Engine’s executive leadership team on appropriate messaging in all types of situations ensuring a polished, consistent delivery across channels
• Partner with content marketing to drive exceptional and value-led brand awareness content
• Create campaigns to place our brand and content on platforms that amplify our message
• Collaborate with our PR agency on thought leadership and brand awareness initiatives and manage and content production agencies related to these initiatives
• Writing, editing and proofreading content efficiently and at scale, ensuring a consistent Hotel Engine tone of voice
• Analyzing and reporting on metrics to measure the impact of the PR & Communications strategy against business goals
• Report to the VP Marketing 

Here's what we're looking for: 

• A bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Marketing, or related field
• 8+ years in public relations or corporate communications, with public company and/or high profile late-stage VC funded successful brands
• Proven track record developing and executing successful B2B and/or B2C corporate communications, content, and corporate brand campaigns driving significant brand awareness
• Expertise in managing PR agencies as well as external writers/freelancers
• Extraordinary writing, storytelling and editing ability, with demonstrated experience harmonizing messages
• Experience in providing proactive communications/storytelling advice to CEO and senior management teams
• Exceptional and effective oral and written communication skills
• Experience applying data to measure results, test, learn, iterate and inform decision making and strategy
• Self-directed and able to work and lead proactively, coordinating stakeholder buy-in
• Ability to multi-task and juggle many simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment while keeping high quality standards
• Experience in taking ownership from top-line targets down to executional detail. 
• Detail-oriented and excellent problem-solver. 
• Self-starter and independent but also a solid team player, we achieve more as a team! 
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. 

Cash compensation:

• The total cash compensation for this role  is $100,000-$120,000/year. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise & may vary from the amount above.