Corporate Media Relations and Issues Communications Manager

Socket.dev; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Instruments seeks a strategic Issues Communications Manager to lead crisis and issues communications, aligning with Corporate Communications to safeguard TI's reputation. You will own the response strategy, messaging, and playbooks for real-time situations across global audiences.

You will manage the issues team and partner with external agencies, advising senior leaders on approach while coordinating cross-functionally to ensure consistent communication during critical moments.

Qualifications

• Experience in crisis/issues management and response strategy.
• Ability to counsel senior leaders on messaging and strategy.
• Proven ability to lead teams and coordinate with agencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead crisis and issues communications strategy and day-to-day response.
• Manage and develop the issues communications team and agency partners.
• Draft proactive and reactive messaging for internal and external audiences on tight deadlines.
• Counsel senior leaders on recommended approaches for sensitive issues.
• Monitor external landscape and provide strategic recommendations to leadership.
• Develop communications strategies to protect TI's brand during and after issues.
• Collaborate with legal, government relations, investor relations, security, and other stakeholders.
• Own crisis playbooks and training for communicators and executives.

Skills

Crisis communications

Strategic communications

Executive counsel

Team leadership

Writing/editing

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications or related field

Job description

Change the world. Love your job.

About the role

TI is looking for a strategic, results-driven Issues Communications Manager to lead the company's crisis and issues communications function. As a key member of the Corporate Communications team, you will be the architect of TI's issues response strategy - owning the processes, playbooks, and messaging that protect and strengthen TI's reputation when it matters most. You will ensure TI's corporate story and message is clear and consistent across all audiences. This role sits at the intersection of communications strategy, executive counsel, and operational execution, requiring someone who can stay composed under pressure while connecting dots across a complex global organization.

What you will gain from this role

• Deep expertise in corporate crisis and issues management - from strategy and playbook development to real-time response across internal and external audiences, including TI's business continuity program and processes
• High-visibility relationships with senior leaders and functional experts across TI, partnering on issues strategy and executive messaging
• Direct people management experience leading an issues communications team and coordinating with external agency partners
• Broad exposure to TI's public relations strategy and the opportunity to influence how the company shows up in the world's most critical moments

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead TI's issues and crisis communications strategy and day-to-day response, connecting dots across functions and regions to ensure timely, consistent execution.
• Manage and develop the issues communications team, including selection, review and management of agency partners.
• Draft proactive and reactive messaging, statements, and content for internal and external audiences on short, often unpredictable deadlines.
• Counsel senior leaders and functional experts on recommended approach for responding to sensitive issues.
• Continually assess the external media, social and political landscape, analyzing trendsthat could affect TI and providing proactive, strategic recommendations to leadership.
• Develop and deliver communications strategies that strengthen and protect TI's brand and reputation during and after an issue.
• Close collaboration with stakeholders across legal, government relations, investor relations, security, and beyond.
• Own TI's crisis communications playbooks and preparedness program, training communicators, executives, and stakeholders on their roles in an issue or crisis.
• Respond swiftly and decisively to unexpected issues as they arise, leading TI's communications response in real time.

Who we're looking for

The ideal candidate is sharp, calm under pressure, and experienced - a strategic communicator who thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving situations. You bring equal parts judgment and execution: you know how to counsel a senior executive, write a tight statement on deadline, and run a triage process all in the same day. You build trust quickly with leaders, colleagues, and agency partners alike, and you understand that protecting a company's reputation requires both preparedness and agility.

Why TI?

• Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics.
• We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours.
• Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. Please find our country-specific benefits here

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, data center, personal electronics and communications equipment. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn moreatTI.com.

Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, disability, genetic information, national origin, gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.