Remote Internal Communications Manager

Summary

Join Upwork as a savvy internal communications manager and take on a diverse range of projects that are critical to the success of the business. You'll be responsible for managing internal communications strategies and campaigns, supporting executives across various business units, and collaborating with team members and business partners.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing comprehensive technical strategic communications programs to advance an organization's mission, strategy, and goals
• Excellent project management skills, with ability to manage multiple tasks with frequently changing requirements and deadlines
• Excellent judgment and creative problem solving skills
• Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• Extensive successful writing and editing experience (externally or internally)
• Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building relationships with executives, as well as ability to work effectively with people at all levels of the organization
• Ability to work closely with executives to develop, secure approval of, and deploy their communications
• Ability to develop advanced concepts and solutions to problems that require a high degree of ingenuity, creativity and innovation

Responsibilities

• Execute a variety of initiatives led by the Internal Communications team
• Provide strategic input on messaging and positioning, and influence stakeholders as needed to ensure communications provide context, clarity, and are aligned with our desired goals
• Identify and support projects that improve the strength of the entire Internal Communications team
• Support our weekly company-wide meetings, our quarterly All Hands meetings, and our Annual Kickoff gathering
• Actively manage content on behalf of your stakeholders on our company-wide intranet, The U
• Regularly assess the effectiveness of Upwork’s internal communications channels and share recommendations to create momentum and awareness as well as to test the effectiveness of communications activities

Benefits

• Medical insurance for you and your family
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) with matching
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave