Overview
Sr. Manager, Marketing & Communications Jobs in Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area at Confidential
Title: Sr. Manager, Marketing & Communications
Company: Confidential
Location: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
This is an onsite role, Monday through Friday. Relocation allowance is available.
Job Purpose
The Senior Manager, Marketing Communications is responsible for how our company is understood by customers, investors, media, employees, and partners. This role owns corporate and executive communications, public relations, brand management, and marketing communications, and translates company strategy, technical progress, and business milestones into clear and credible narratives across all channels. The position operates as both a strategic owner and a hands-on contributor, flexing between communications strategy, team leadership, and direct production based on business needs.
Duties and Responsibilities
Communications Strategy and Brand Management
- Own and execute corporate and marketing communications strategy in alignment with commercial priorities, corporate objectives, and key milestones.
- Define and maintain the narrative for the company and the product technology across customers, investors, media, employees, and partners.
- Own and enforce brand guidelines, including visual identity, messaging, terminology, tone of voice, photography, renderings, and technical language.
- Maintain crisis and issues communications readiness in coordination with executive leadership and legal counsel.
- Maintain a communications calendar focused on the timely communication of validated milestones.
- Build brand engagement across owned, earned, social, and selectively used paid channels.
Corporate, Executive, and Investor Communications
- Lead corporate communications, executive messaging, thought leadership, internal communications, and communications support for company events and announcements.
- Develop executive presentations, briefing materials, talking points, bylined articles, podcast opportunities, and conference participation.
- Partner with investor relations to support earnings materials, investor presentations, stakeholder communications, and a consistent equity narrative.
- Develop and execute a media strategy that positions the company and our technical products across priority business, financial, energy, technology, defense, and trade media.
- Build relationships with priority journalists, editors, analysts, podcast hosts, and industry influencers.
Commercial Enablement and Marketing Communications
- Execute marketing communications for our technical products across key application industries, including data centers and AI infrastructure, defense and government, and commercial and industrial power applications.
- Work with Product Management and Engineering to translate validated technical and commercial milestones into content for general and technical audiences.
- Develop product messaging, marketing collateral, presentations, sales enablement materials, demonstration content, videos, case studies, and customer-facing materials.
- Lead events marketing across trade shows, industry conferences, and customer demonstrations, including booth presence, event messaging, collateral, and follow-up content.
Digital Channels, Brand Operations, and Performance
- Owns corporate website, newsroom, social media channels, and digital content strategy, keeping company, product, leadership, milestone, and news content current.
- Strengthen our digital presence and search authority around priority technologies, markets, and applications.
- Manage internal graphic design and external media production resources to ensure consistent brand execution.
- Define and manage communications performance indicators focused on credibility, engagement, message adoption, stakeholder understanding, and commercial enablement.
- Report progress, insights, risks, and opportunities to leadership.
- Flex between strategic ownership, team leadership, and hands-on production based on business needs.
Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned, needed, or required for the business.
Qualifications
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Qualifications include:
Education, Experience and Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, business, or a related field.
- 8 or more years of experience in corporate communications, marketing communications, public relations, brand management, or a related role.
- Experience working within energy, technology, industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, or another technically complex industry preferred.
- Experience managing executive communications, media relationships, public relations agencies, websites, digital channels, and significant corporate announcements.
- Experience developing product marketing materials, case studies, thought-leadership content, and multimedia assets.
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex technical and commercial information into clear and compelling communications.
- Strong writing, editing, messaging, presentation, and storytelling skills.
- Strong project-management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively with executive leadership, investor relations, business development, engineering, legal, customers, and external partners.
Role Classification and Working Conditions
This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.
Physical/Other Requirements
- Minimal travel requirements: <10%
Direct Reports
This position has or may have direct reports