Communication Specialist

Newsletter Jobs; Dearborn (MI); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401k

Term Life Insurance

Voluntary Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Pre-paid Legal Plan

Identity Theft Protection

Medical FSA

Work visa sponsorship

Career advancement

Contract-to-hire

Job summary

Kyyba seeks a Communication Specialist to lead the ET editorial direction, governance standards, and measurement strategy for communications across the Enterprise Technology organization. This role acts as the central editorial steward while partnering with communicators across decentralized teams to ensure alignment, clarity, and consistency.

The position champions modern AI-enabled tools, drives publishing workflow improvements, and delivers data-driven insights to elevate audience engagement

Qualifications

• 8+ years of corporate communications experience in a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience establishing editorial guidelines, brand standards, and governance models.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite and analytics (SharePoint, Viva Engage, email campaigns).

Responsibilities

• Set editorial direction, governance standards, and measurement strategy for ET communications.
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled tools and champion best practices to maximize audience engagement.
• Partner with decentralized teams to ensure alignment, clarity, and consistent narrative across channels.
• Oversee publishing workflows, channel governance, and cross-organizational initiatives.

Skills

Communications

Microsoft Office

Employee Engagement

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

Outlook

PowerPoint

Excel

Copilot

Job description

Job Title:

Communication Specialist

About Kyyba:

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Farmington Hills, MI, Kyyba has a global presence delivering high-quality resources and top-notch recruiting services, enabling businesses to effectively respond to organizational changes and technological advances.

At Kyyba, the overall well‑being of our employees and their families is important to us. We are proud of our work culture which embodies our core values; incorporating value, passion, excellence, empowerment, and happiness, creates a vibrant and productive atmosphere. We empower our employees with the resources, incentives, and flexibility that they need to support a healthy, balanced, and fulfilling career by providing many valuable benefits and a balanced compensation structure combined with career development.

Job Description:

The ET Communications Lead and Editor-in-Chief sets the editorial direction, governance standards, and measurement strategy for communications across the Enterprise Technology (ET) organization. This role serves as the central editorial steward and operational owner for ET-wide communication channels while partnering with communicators across decentralized teams to ensure alignment, clarity, and consistency. Additionally, this position leads the adoption of modern, AI-enabled communication tools and champions best practices to maximize audience engagement across the organization

Skills Required:

Communications, Microsoft Office, Employee Engagement, Strategic Planning

Experience Required:

8+ years of progressive experience in corporate communications, editorial management, or internal media channels within a large, matrixed organization.

• Demonstrated experience establishing editorial guidelines, brand standards, and formal channel governance models.
• Proven track record of evaluating and optimizing multi-channel communication networks and publishing workflows.
• Technical Proficiency: Advanced proficiency across the Microsoft 365 suite (SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Copilot). Hands-on experience extracting and analyzing platform analytics, e.g., SharePoint metrics, Viva Engage analytics, email campaign metrics, etc. Familiarity with AI tools and workflow-enablement technologies, including testing, prompt refinement, and user adoption.
• Communication & Influence: Exceptional editorial and written communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional peers, challenge assumptions constructively, and present findings to senior leadership.
• Organization & Autonomy: High degree of self-direction and accountability to manage publishing deadlines, maintain operational tools, and lead cross-organizational initiatives independently without direct reports.

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, or a related field.

Additionalinfo:

• Editorial Leadership & Channel Governance Editorial Direction & Content Curation: Serve as the Editor-in-Chief for primary ET communication channels e.g., weekly newsletter, MS Teams, Viva Engage, establishing publishing schedules, curating high-impact stories, and enforcing quality, voice, and narrative standards.
• Brand & Marketing Standards: Define, document, and maintain ET-wide communication, visual, and narrative standards aligned with corporate guidelines; ensure all ET-level messaging reflects modern, audience-first storytelling rather than transactional updates.
• AI Tool Ownership & Adoption: Own the lifecycle, iteration, and maintenance of the channel-recommendation AI assistant; actively pilot features, gather user feedback, and drive adoption among communicators across ET.
• Channel Integrity & Guidance: Serve as the primary steward for channel usage, guiding communicators toward appropriate channels and maintaining firm governance when requests do not align with channel strategy.
• Analytics, Measurement & Operating Strategy End-to-End Metrics Ownership: Directly pull, validate, and analyze readership and engagement data across ET communication channels to establish a consistent, unified reporting baseline.
• Executive Insights & Reporting: Translate engagement metrics into executive-level reporting that highlights audience trends, experimental outcomes, and data-driven recommendations to evolve channel strategy.
• Channel Optimization & Alignment: Collaborate with communicators and stakeholders across ET to reduce communication noise, optimize shared publishing workflows, and improve overall alignment across distributed teams.

Location:

Hybrid Position and Dearborn, MI

Disclaimer:

Kyyba is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Kyyba does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Minorities / Females / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.”

It is the policy of Kyyba to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact Kyyba at 248-813-9665

Rewards:

• Medical, dental, vision
• 401k
• Term life
• Voluntary life and disability insurance
• Optional Pre-paid legal plan
• Optional Identity theft plan
• Optional Medical and dependent FSA
• Work-visa sponsorship
• Opportunity for advancement
• Long-term assignment with opportunity for hire by client

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