Communications Manager

ScaleTech; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Flexible policy

Job summary

ScaleTech in San Jose, CA is seeking a Communications Manager to own sales marketing outcomes and drive sharp, insight-led campaigns. This contract role prioritizes accountability, mentorship, and a collaboration-forward culture.

You'll translate customer insights into compelling campaign briefs, support prospecting and follow-up strategy, and set a weekly cadence to keep the team moving. The role emphasizes partnerships, cross‑functional launches, and end-to-end channel management.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in marketing or communications roles.
• Proven ability to translate customer insights into campaigns.
• Experience supporting account executives and prospecting.
• Comfort with a contract-based role in a growth company.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer insights into sharper campaign briefs and messaging.
• Support managers with prospecting and follow-up strategy.
• Set a weekly cadence to keep the sales team accountable.
• Pitched upsells that feel like value, not invoices.
• Cultivate referral channels and strategic partnerships in San Jose.
• Coordinate cross‑functional launches with creative, product, and ops.
• Build territory plans maximizing coverage across San Jose, CA.
• Manage paid search, social, and email campaigns end to end.

Skills

Campaign briefs

Prospecting strategy

Cadence setting

Upsell pitches

Partnerships

Cross‑functional launches

Territory planning

Paid search

Email campaigns

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing or related field

Tools

Canva

Looker Studio

Job description

Quota is the floor here, not the goal, and ScaleTech's Communications Manager is expected to leave it far behind. The pitch is honest — $140,000 - $217,000, real ownership of sales marketing outcomes, and a ScaleTech crew in San Jose that has your back.

Key Responsibilities

• A knack for translating customer insights into sharper campaign briefs
• Support manager account executives with prospecting and follow-up strategy
• Set the weekly cadence that keeps ScaleTech reps accountable
• Pitch upsells that feel like favors, not invoices
• Cultivate referral channels and strategic partnerships in San Jose
• Coordinate cross-functional launches with creative, product, and operations
• Build territory plans that maximize coverage across San Jose, CA
• Manage paid search, social, and email programs end to end

What You'll Bring

• A communicator who writes the meeting recap nobody asked for but everyone reads
• A steady hand when three priorities all claim to be number one
• At least 7 years of standing behind your own estimates
• 8+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
• Comfort being accountable for a relentlessly curious outcome in a contract role
• Adaptability and resilience when facing shifting requirements
• The kind of reliability that earns you the hard assignments

ScaleTech is a craft-focused engineering shop in San Jose, CA where Canva and Looker Studio are treated as the same discipline. Our San Jose office prizes the quiet contributor who makes everyone around them measurably better.

We trade fair $140,000 - $217,000 for your talent and throw in mentorship, benefits, and a flexibility policy people actually use.

Our San Jose team is currently shortlisting candidates for this position.

The version of you that already works at ScaleTech is just one application ahead.