Luminary Labs

Luminary Labs

Senior Communications Associate

New York, New York · Senior

No sponsorship$95k-$115kDetected 2358 days ago
LLMsContent MarketingStrategic CommunicationsGoogle AnalyticsBusiness DevelopmentWordPressResearchLeadershipCommunicationAdaptability

About the role

  • This is a unique opportunity to help our clients communicate complex problems, learn directly from senior leadership, and grow within a consulting firm as an in-house communications and marketing expert.
  • Please note that our team has embraced a hybrid model for our five-day work week, with two synchronous days in the office and three days wherever you work best.
  • This role is based in New York City and will join our team in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays most weeks.

Responsibilities

  • Luminary Labs seeks a digital-savvy communications specialist to support public-facing initiatives, including open innovation programs and accelerators, on behalf of our Fortune 500, government, and nonprofit clients.
  • Collaborate with a team to define audiences, set goals, and develop strategies.
  • Edit your own work - and your peers' - for clarity and consistency.
  • Content strategy and production. Create thoughtful content plans and materials, balancing audience needs with project or business goals. Adapt messages for different contexts, and develop content for different channels and formats.
  • Build networks and engagement.
  • Take the lead on drafting compelling communications materials, including blog posts, press releases, email newsletters, and social media posts.
  • Create thoughtful content plans and materials, balancing audience needs with project or business goals.
  • Adapt messages for different contexts, and develop content for different channels and formats.
  • Superb writing chops; experience developing multichannel content to activate audiences.

Requirements

  • No matter how nuanced the topic, you are a clear communicator
  • you can quickly get up to speed on complex topics and connect the dots between them to tell a compelling story.
  • You are known for your high attention to detail, clear communication, and fresh thinking.
  • 4-6+ years work experience in tech-savvy marketing, communications, or business development
  • this includes 2-3 years experience working in an agency, consultancy, startup, or with corporate clients.
  • Ability to learn new platforms and tools quickly; experience with Mailchimp and WordPress a plus.

Nice to have

  • Ability to learn new platforms and tools quickly
  • experience with Mailchimp and WordPress a plus.

Skills

  • Thorny problems are our strong suit.
  • Our open innovation practice was established in 2011.

Compensation

  • The total compensation package for this role includes a base salary in the range of $95,000 to $115,000 plus a discretionary annual performance bonus.

Benefits

  • Monitor media coverage and pitch stories to relevant reporters.

Company info

  • We are a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps organizations thrive in the face of change. Thorny problems are our strong suit. We're a team of consultants who are energized by big, messy problems. We are strategists, analysts, designers, and editors who bring agility and flexibility to projects focused on stemming chronic disease, closing the skills gap, rethinking the future of work, supporting digital transformations, using data to make smart cities safer, developing sustainable business models, and making moonshot investments. We help companies thrive in the face of change. Our clients are "innovation mavericks" - leaders inside global corporations, nonprofits, and federal agencies who are tasked with helping their organizations adapt to the technological, economic, political, and social norms of the 21st century. We're the strategy and innovation consultants they call when there's no playbook for the problem they're trying to solve. Our open innovation practice was established in 2011. We are particularly focused on open innovation for impact, making use of incentive prize mechanisms to accelerate innovations such as artificial organs (Artificial Kidney Prize), early biothreat detection (DHS Hidden Signals Challenge), access to career and technical education (the Ed Prizes challenge series), and improving our understanding of Earth's magnetism (NGA MagQuest). We have an equal appreciation for strategy and execution. We offer our clients the upfront thinking that goes into careful strategy development and can become partners in execution to ensure those strategies are implemented. We believe that career choices are not binary
  • you can have a challenging and rewarding career as part of a high-performing team and also live your life. Our clients appreciate that we bring the highest level of excellence to everything we do, and our team appreciates that we are extraordinarily efficient so that you aren't expected to be online later. Please note: for employment at Luminary Labs, you must be fully vaccinated (including booster) for COVID-19 to ensure compliance with enhanced health and safety protocols. The Role Luminary Labs seeks a digital-savvy communications specialist to support public-facing initiatives, including open innovation programs and accelerators, on behalf of our Fortune 500, government, and nonprofit clients. This is a unique opportunity to help our clients communicate complex problems, learn directly from senior leadership, and grow within a consulting firm as an in-house communications and marketing expert. Please note that our team has embraced a hybrid model for our five-day work week, with two synchronous days in the office and three days wherever you work best. This role is based in New York City and will join our team in the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays most weeks.
  • We are a strategy and innovation consultancy that helps organizations thrive in the face of change.
  • We're a team of consultants who are energized by big, messy problems.
  • We are strategists, analysts, designers, and editors who bring agility and flexibility to projects focused on stemming chronic disease, closing the skills gap, rethinking the future of work, supporting digital transformations, using data to make smart cities safer, developing sustainable business models, and making moonshot investments.
  • We help companies thrive in the face of change.
  • Our clients are "innovation mavericks" - leaders inside global corporations, nonprofits, and federal agencies who are tasked with helping their organizations adapt to the technological, economic, political, and social norms of the 21st century.
  • We're the strategy and innovation consultants they call when there's no playbook for the problem they're trying to solve.
  • We are particularly focused on open innovation for impact, making use of incentive prize mechanisms to accelerate innovations such as artificial organs (Artificial Kidney Prize), early biothreat detection (DHS Hidden Signals Challenge), access to career and technical education (the Ed Prizes challenge series), and improving our understanding of Earth's magnetism (NGA MagQuest).
  • We have an equal appreciation for strategy and execution.
  • We offer our clients the upfront thinking that goes into careful strategy development and can become partners in execution to ensure those strategies are implemented.
  • We believe that career choices are not binary; you can have a challenging and rewarding career as part of a high-performing team and also live your life.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. No recruiting agencies please.

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