Senior Manager, Communications

Summary

Join Ready as a dynamic and innovative Senior Manager, Communications to lead our communications strategy and elevate Ready’s voice.

Requirements

• Excellent writer; quality > quantity, continues to reiterate mission
• Effective leader who can scope, run, deliver on projects, and manage up to e-team stakeholders
• High attention to detail; reverence for data-informed research
• High IQ and direct communicator, ideally trained in psych, comms, and digital media
• Maintains a dash of humor / irreverence while taking what we build very seriously → life’s too short for boring
• Business-minded, ruthlessly goal-driven, creative-and-outcome-oriented, can turn FUD into fuel, and will stay the course

Responsibilities

• Owns external communications on Ready Branding to current and future customers
• Keeps Ready ultra-crisp across mediums, and ensures every word of every touchpoint sizzles; esp. in killer short form writing, (X, memes, short vids vs. press releases)
• Pick up and carry the ball on our Product Language & Media Production, workshopping with leads on the key points; the ideal person has strong creative synthesis
• Capable manager to train up current team members; influence x-functionally at the executive level
• Takes an obsessive focus on advancing business goals to create relationship-forward strategies & craft narratives to the right audiences
• Executes Ready's founder-led communication strategy, leveraging our founder's voice and vision to authentically convey Ready’s mission, build brand trust, and engage key audiences
• Leads the communications strategy with a data-driven approach, using analytics to optimize messaging, track engagement, and ensure impactful, results-oriented communication initiatives

Benefits

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside
• Competitive (and ever expanding) benefits for employees and dependents
• Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups
• A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we pursue a bold vision and and a big goal
• To get away - we all convene  2x / year for [optional] retreats