Public Relations Vice President – B2B Technology

Public Relations Vice President – B2B Technology

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, or related field is required.
• Minimum 10 years experience in a senior management role either in-house or with an agency.
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with top tier reporters and editors, and in successfully positioning subject matter with the media to achieve high-impact placements.
• Extensive successful writing and editing experience (externally focused) with a variety of print and online communications media.
• Experience with social media influencer engagement, content campaigns, and media coverage amplification.
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing a comprehensive strategic communications, media relations, and marketing program to advance an organization’s mission and goals.
• Creative and thoughtful on how new media technologies can be utilized.
• Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output. Experience in building, mentoring, and coaching a team of communications specialists.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills.
• Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
• Self reliant, good problem solver, results oriented.
• Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs.
• Excellent and persuasive communicator.
• Experience measuring the ROI of communications activities.
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance, and administration initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated strategic communications plan to advance brand identity.
• Create marketing/public relations strategy that will allow Highwire to cultivate and enhance meaningful relationships with targeted, high-level external audiences, including the media and key influencers.
• Identify challenges and emerging issues faced by the organization.
• Work with leadership team and staff to recognize internal and external communications opportunities and solutions, and define and execute appropriate strategies to support them.
• Serve as a spokesperson and lead point person on media interactions that help promote and/or impact the organization.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the communications function including budgeting, planning and staff development.
• Recruit and manage a communications team to support the development and execution of the communications strategy.
• Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality.
• Manage, mentor and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach on a consistent basis.
• Establish and monitor staff performance and development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, conduct annual performance appraisals.
• Attend networking events, seminars and conferences, including out-of-hours, as required to maintain personal professional development and to build networking and new business contacts.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.