Sr. Manager, Executive Communications

Job Title:

Sr. Manager, Executive Communications

About Trellix  
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity. The company’s comprehensive, open, and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.

Role Overview:

The Executive Communications Senior Manager is responsible for shaping and delivering clear, consistent, and high-impact communications for the CEO and Executive Leadership Team (ELT). This role serves as a strategic advisor and trusted partner to senior leaders, ensuring alignment, continuity, and message clarity across executive forums and company-wide communications.
Working as part of the Corporate Communications team, and reporting to the Sr. Director of Corporate Communications, this role partners closely with Global PR, HR, and Executive Assistants to ensure leadership communications are aligned with corporate strategy, external positioning, and employee experience.
This role is not an administrative or logistics position. It is a strategic communications role focused on executive narrative, leadership presence, and message coherence at scale.

About The Role:CEO Communications

• Serve as the primary communications partner to the CEO, supporting:
• Company-wide messaging
• Leadership narratives and key themes
• CEO presentations, talking points, and written communications
• Ensure CEO communications are aligned with company strategy, values, and external positioning
• Anticipate message risks, sensitivities, and moments requiring elevated clarity or care

Executive Leadership Team Communications

• Drive consistency and continuity across ELT communications, including:
• All Hands
• Executive meetings
• Strategic updates and leadership forums
• Partner with ELT members and their Executive Assistants to:
• Shape agendas and key messages
• Improve clarity, focus, and audience relevance
• Act as a connective layer across leadership communications to reduce noise, duplication, and misalignment

Strategic Advisory & Message Stewardship

• Serve as a strategic advisor to executives on:
• Messaging tone, structure, and sequencing
• Audience segmentation and channel selection
• Change communications and moments of organizational impact
• Identify gaps or inconsistencies across executive communications and proactively recommend improvements
• Support executive readiness for high-visibility moments

Corporate Communications & PR Alignment

• Partner closely with the Global PR team to:
• Align internal executive messaging with external narratives
• Ensure internal communications reflect marketing-facing positioning
• Coordinate with Corporate Communications peers on:
• Major announcements
• Crisis or issue response
• Company-wide messaging frameworks
• Provide executive communications input into broader corporate communications strategy
• Own company intranet strategy and governance within Corporate Communications, partnering closely with Brand and HR to ensure content accuracy, consistency, and alignment with executive and corporate messaging

About You

• 8-12+ years experience in executive communications, corporate communications, or a related field

• Demonstrated experience supporting C-level or ELT Communications

• Strong executive presence and ability to advise senior leaders

• Exceptional writing and storytelling skills across formats

• Ability to operate with discretion, judgment, and political awareness

• Experience partnering with PR, HR, and cross-functional stakeholders

• Experience in high-growth or complex organizations

• Background in technology, SaaS, or global organizations

• Experience navigating change, transformation, or sensitive communications

• Familiarity with crisis or issues management environments

Success Measures

• Improved clarity and consistency across CEO and ELT communications

• Strong executive satisfaction and trust

• Reduced message overlap and noise across leadership forums

• Effective alignment between internal executive messaging and external PR narratives

• Clear, proactive communications support during moments of change or complexity

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Company Benefits and Perks:

We believe that the best solutions are developed by teams who embrace each other's unique experiences, skills, and abilities. We work hard to create a dynamic workforce where we encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We offer a variety of social programs, flexible work hours and family-friendly benefits to all of our employees.

• Retirement Plans

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

• Paid Time Off

• Paid Parental Leave

• Support for Community Involvement

We're serious about our commitment to a workplace where everyone can thrive and contribute to our industry-leading products and customer support, which is why we prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation or any other legally protected status.

Our Commitment to You:

At Trellix, we are committed to creating a safe and trustworthy experience for our customers, employees, and candidates. Please be aware that fraudulent recruiting activity can occur through fake job postings or impersonated communications.

Trellix conducts interviews through professional channels only and does not use text messages, instant messaging, or group chats for interviews. We will never request sensitive personal information—such as your date of birth, Social Security number, or national ID number—during the interview process.

Trellix also does not require candidates to pay fees, purchase products or services, or process payments of any kind as part of the recruiting or hiring process. And Trellix will never keep any original work authorization documents that we may be required to review during the hiring process.