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The Manager of the executive communications specialty for the corporate communications team will work closely with the executive leadership team to develop content for executive speaking opportunities, extend the reach of executive participation in external events, develop a platform for “Pick Your Brain” or other Zoom series, executive contributed articles and more.

What you'll do in this role

• Own the executive visibility program, driving its strategy and leading direct reports and agency support to execute on the strategy.
• Work closely with the executive leadership team to develop strong narrative presentations and content for external speaking opportunities.
• Work with the brand, design, technical marketing team and others needed to develop state of the art slide decks for external events.
• Lead speaking coaching sessions with the leadership team to ensure they comfortably deliver the content in a natural and charismatic way; incorporate edits as needed.
• Think strategically about other executive leadership platforms (aspirational and industry peers) and how we should be promoting them externally, whether that is via our blog, contributed articles, podcasts, YouTube, social media or other external platforms.
• Work closely with others in the Corporate Communications department and with PR agencies to share presentation narratives for media consumption and obtain media messages/interview feedback to incorporate in external speaking presentations.
• Manage any outside agencies or freelancers hired to assist with the executive visibility program.
• Work closely with Executive Business Administrators to plan executive speaking schedules for the year.

We're looking for

• 9+ years experience in public relations and/or marketing communications
• Experience developing and executing executive communications programs.
• Experience in enterprise software and/or open source.
• Experience with presentation building - both narrative flow and design
• Experience managing agencies and driving results.
• Creative, thoughtful and passionate about storytelling.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to drive cross-functional deadlines consistently
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.

Also, we know it’s tough, but please try to avoid the confidence gap . You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role.

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