Senior Corporate Communications Manager

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. About the Role:Are you ready to make serious waves in a SaaS category considered pivotal to the future of work? Love working with the press, reading up on the latest news in tech, and looking for interesting pitch angles? Passionate about storytelling in new, creative ways? This is your chance to help us go toe-to-toe with other leaders in one of the hottest software categories: collaborative work management. We’re looking for a Senior Corporate Communications Manager with a keen eye for trends, an agile and bold approach to getting things done, and passion in their purpose.Reporting to the Director of Corporate Marketing, this position will play a crucial role in implementing the strategy for planned and proactive communication initiatives in the Corporate Communications team within Corporate Marketing. Beyond traditional PR, you will serve as a strategic counselor to our leadership team to refine their executive platforms and act as a project lead to ensure complex, cross-functional campaigns are delivered with precision. You will also work alongside colleagues in customer marketing, content marketing, analyst relations, social media, corporate events, design, and more to uplevel and support ongoing projects.This is an ideal role for someone who is a modern marketer: you have a strong background in media relations, you possess the executive presence to coach C-suite leaders, and you are eager to leverage AI tools to innovate how the communications function operates.Your Impact:Work closely with the Director of Corporate Marketing to ensure strategic corporate communications initiatives are successfully executed and results track back to OKRs. Work closely with Wrike’s executive leadership team to build out robust thought leadership campaigns. Develop and execute executive visibility programs, including crafting bylines, keynote scripts, internal communications, and LinkedIn points-of-view that establish our leaders as visionaries in the future of work.Own the end-to-end management of complex communications campaigns. Apply structured project management methodologies (using Wrike) to drive alignment, accountability, and visibility across distributed teams (Product, Demand Gen, Customer Success) to ensure launches land with maximum impact.Champion the use of AI within the communications function. Actively pilot and integrate AI tools for research, drafting, and sentiment analysis to increase speed-to-market and efficiency. Stay ahead of the curve on the ethical and reputational nuances of AI to guide our external narrative regarding our own AI product features.Oversee the press release calendar of upcoming announcements, making recommendations for news that will allow Wrike to stay fiercely competitive and resonate with the media. Craft and distribute on-brand releases. Keep Wrike newsroom up to date.Work closely with the Product and Product Marketing teams to ensure we are maintaining a strong cadence of product news that demonstrates innovation and underscores leadership in the space.Collaborate with agency partners to build a robust media presence that produces ongoing coverage tied to thought leadership, product innovation, third-party validation, and more.Work closely with Wrike’s executive leadership team to build out robust thought leadership campaigns. Analyze platform and third-party data to create new and unique storylines for the media. Keep up with the latest trends in the CWM space, as well as themes relevant to the brand, such as Future of Work, collaboration, and workflow automation, and - from those - make smart, fast recommendations for trend-jacking or rapid response.Work with Customer Marketing to ensure external facing stories hit the mark with what we want to say externally/tell the market.Make recommendations for new tactics that will help our brand and influence reach new heights.Track and optimize toward objectives and key results.Your Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, or a related field10 years of experience in communications with at least 5 years of experience in the technology industry and familiarity with the SaaS / Cloud sectorExperience at both an agency and in-house a plusIntelligent, passionate communicator and storyteller who can take our corporate narrative and apply it to initiatives that drive brand awarenessDemonstrated experience advising C-level executives; You have the confidence and poise to provide media coaching, offer strategic counsel during crises, and capture an executive’s unique voice in written communicationsStrong operational mindset with expe