Lead, Project Marketing & Communications

BrightNight; United States; Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

BrightNight is seeking a seasoned marketing communications professional to support development from planning through permitting, construction, and operations. You will guide community engagement, manage media relations, and serve as a primary contact for local press.

Your role includes developing reusable engagement guides, crafting clear project narratives, and coordinating with Corporate MarCom and other teams to maintain consistent messaging across channels.

Qualifikationen

• 15+ years in marketing communications or related fields, including at least 3 years in a project-facing role.
• Experience with media relations and reporter engagement in energy, infrastructure, or place-based work.
• Excellent writing, judgment, organization, and ability to guide teams and influence without direct authority.

Aufgaben

• Advise Development teams on audience planning, community-engagement approaches, key messages, meeting prep, feedback, and follow-up.
• Create reusable tools and guidance such as engagement plans, stakeholder materials, FAQs, templates, and briefing documents.
• Develop clear project narratives explaining the project, status, and local context; translate technical topics for community and media audiences.
• Build relationships with local and regional reporters, respond to inquiries, identify story opportunities, and prepare releases, Q&As, and spokesperson briefings.
• Monitor coverage and concerns, counsel project teams, and coordinate with MarCom, Community Affairs, Permitting, Legal, and partners.
• Support project websites, fact sheets, newsletters, public meetings, notices, and other communications.

Kenntnisse

Media relations

Storytelling

Written communication

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Jobbeschreibung

BrightNight is a high-growth renewable power developer and Independent Power Producer (IPP) with a 30-gigawatt portfolio spanning 20 U.S. states. The company develops innovative, dispatchable, and hybrid energy solutions that deliver reliable, cost-efficient renewable power to utilities, data centers, and other high-demand customers across fast-growing energy markets. Supported by strong financial partners, including Goldman Sachs, experienced industry leadership, and proprietary capabilities such as PowerAlpha®, BrightNight is scaling rapidly while differentiating itself through an AI-enabled, automation-driven approach to project development and operations. For candidates, BrightNight offers the opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility, work directly with experienced industry leaders, and grow alongside a company with real momentum and ambitious plans for the future. We’re building a company where intelligence is built in, not bolted on. It is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where smart, curious people can make an outsized impact, grow quickly, and help shape the future of reliable clean energy.

About the role

This role works alongside Development from early planning through permitting, construction, and operations. It provides Development teams with practical guidance, tools, and communications support for community engagement. It also leads project narrative and media relations, serving as a point of contact for local and regional press and reporters. Development remains accountable for local project priorities and community relationships; this role equips and advises the team rather than replacing that ownership.

What you’ll do:

• Advise Development teams on audience planning, community-engagement approaches, key messages, meeting preparation, feedback, and follow-up.
• Create reusable tools and guidance, such as engagement plans, stakeholder materials, FAQs, presentation templates, briefing documents, and escalation paths.
• Develop clear project positioning and narratives that explain the project, its status, and relevant local context; translate technical, regulatory, and development topics for community and media audiences.
• Build relationships with local and regional reporters, respond to media inquiries, identify story opportunities, and prepare releases, statements, Q&As, and spokesperson briefings.
• Monitor coverage and emerging community or media concerns, counsel project teams on communications, and coordinate with Corporate MarCom, Community Affairs, Permitting, Legal, and other partners.
• Support project websites, fact sheets, newsletters, public meetings, construction notices, and other project communications.

What you’ll bring:

• Approximately 15 years in marketing communications, public relations, corporate affairs, public affairs, or a related field, including at least 3 years in a comparable project-facing role.
• Experience with media relations and reporter engagement, plus energy, infrastructure, or other complex, place-based work.
• Excellent writing, judgment, organization, and the ability to guide teams and influence without direct authority.
• Comfort working with developers, technical experts, community stakeholders, media, and external agencies.