Sonos
Global PR and Corporate Communications Lead
New York, NY · Full-time
No sponsorshipDetected 30 days ago
Brand StrategyResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- This role is located on-site at one of our offices This position is office-based, meaning regular in-person collaboration or use of office equipment is essential to maximize effectiveness for this team and/or position.
- Qualified applicants must live within commuting distance of New York and should expect to be in office a minimum of 4 days per week.
- This includes vision-setting, shaping processes and assessing what the function needs to run well.
Responsibilities
- Build Corporate Communications: Establish the corporate communications function from the ground up, covering executive positioning, thought leadership, company narrative, and stakeholder communications.
- Enable the Regional Earned Team: Develop the global strategies, frameworks, and playbooks the regional earned team uses to build and execute locally relevant plans, creating freedom within a clear framework so regional execution stays coherent with the global narrative.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Brand Strategy, Brand Creative, Brand Marketing, and Commercial Marketing to integrate PR and corporate communications into broader campaigns and initiatives.
- Budget and Agency Management: Manage PR agency relationships and the PR budget, ensuring efficient use of resources and clear accountability for outcomes.
- An engaged and passionate PR leader who knows what it takes to drive successful earned stories and media relations
- Can plan, lead and activate local and cross-functional communications projects
- A love for navigating a diverse set of countries, partners, cultures and languages.
- Manage PR agency relationships and the PR budget, ensuring efficient use of resources and clear accountability for outcomes.
- At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other.
- You are responsible for developing global PR and corporate communications strategies that deliver against business and marketing objectives, spanning brand and product PR, executive positioning, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8-10 years of PR and/or communications experience, with meaningful time in both agency and in-house environments
- Track record leading global PR programs with regional complexity across multiple markets
- Experience designing communications frameworks for regional adaptation and localization
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in earned media measurement and analytics platforms, with the ability to track, interpret, and report on communications performance
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity - you make decisions and move work forward when direction isn't fully defined, and you know when to pause, align, and course-correct before going too far
- Willing to travel when required
Compensation
- Shape and Implement Global PR and Corporate Communications Strategies: Develop and own the annual vision for both functions, including global strategies, narrative frameworks, and the playbooks that define how Sonos earns media attention, shapes its corporate story, and shows up consistently across brand and product.
Equal opportunity
- Sonos is an equal opportunity employer.
- We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
- Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@sonos.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Sonos is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role at this time.
- We ask that applicants be authorized to work for any US employer, both now and in the future.
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